Our All-Time Favorite Smooth Peanut Butter
Our All-Time Favorite Smooth Peanut Butter
Tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges host Julia Collin Davison to a tasting of creamy peanut butter.
Read the full taste test of smooth peanut butter: https://cooks.io/2HbzlQh
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I actually like Whole Foods 365 brand. The chunky one. And I’m not a Whole Foods pusher, especially since they became Amazon.
Jif is my favorite. Skippy has as much flavor as wax to me.
“Best” and most healthful are very different things.
Big fan of Teddy Peanut Butter. Two ingredients. Simple and delicious. No need to add sugar and unhealthy chemicals. I bake with it all the time with delicious results.
When will America’s test kitchen have it’s marathon.
They need to try Earth Balance Coconut oil peanutbutter. Stuff is delicious!😊
Wow!!! He explained my issue! Thanks! I made peanut butter cookie bars with natural peanut butter for the first time, a few months ago, and they were VERY DRY.
No Kraft?
There really are only four healthy oils: olive, avocado, coconut and walnut. Walnut is not for good for cooking or pan frying. Palm oil is a really bad choice. It isn’t healthy and it is causing deforestation and loss of natural habitat. Most "vegetable" oils are made through artificial processes that involve emulsifiers and extreme heat. Good oils come from naturally fatty sources that are easier to convert to oil. Real lard from organically raised livestock is also a decent choice for frying.
I’m a choosy mutha, so I choose JIF.
Why did I just watch this video? lol
I grew up on Jif creamy, and later in life tried Adams to be a bit healthier but never did like it. Eventually found Skippy Super Chunk and love it.
Born and raised on Jif. I’m 56, and never tried any other. I promise to venture out! Better late than never?
I hate peanut butter. Ugh.
Jack is starting to hunch over. Makes me sad watching the people I followed for years grow old
Smuckers guy here and I’m with Jack….I hate sugar in my peanut butter.
Peter Pan
Jiff natural is made with molasses. It’s the best tasting in the lineup.
God bless Annette Funicello, Mouseter R.I.P. Love Skippy.
Palm oil is BAD for us and the environment. I say "skip" the Skippy. For that guilty PB experience, Jiff is my fav. BUT, Im trying to find a natural PB with no sugar and added oils, seems my only choice is the grind your own at the market.
so the bottom line is you need to buy the toxic trans fat PB if you want the best cookies and peanut "taste"
I grew up eating Skippy b/c that’s what mom bought. But I have been buying my own for over 30 years and it is always Smuckers. I like that there is only peanuts and salt. It’s messy to eat, but I’m not getting any sugar or artificial crap. And forget about the sandwiches. I just eat it straight from the jar with a spoon.
I grew up with Jif and have sworn by it for decades. About 10 years ago, out of curiosity, I tried Skippy. I now prefer Skippy hands down; it tastes more like peanuts to me.
Peter pan crunchy with strawberry preserves on bunny bread(local bread)
Jif is the best. And I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.
What is the problem with palm oil? Palm oil has been and continues to be a major driver of deforestation of some of the world’s most biodiverse forests, destroying the habitat of already endangered species like the Orangutan, pygmy elephant and Sumatran rhino. Make your own peanut butter!
Adding palm oil to anything is an ecological disaster and borders on criminal due to the amount of land clearing that has been undertaken for the growing of the base product.
I love hearing about peanut butter, I really do. I’m just not sure that a blind taste test of 3 wildly different peanut butters is that interesting. Wouldn’t you like to do a taste of 3 hydrogenated PB’s all at once? And 3 "naturals" all at once? and so on . . .
Jif All Natural tastes great and has no hydrogenated oil. Hydrogenated oil is not food, it is not good for you. These people are recommending that you eat something that is not good for you.
I always choose Skippy Peanut Butter. Yay I picked the best kind of peanut butter.
I buy only peanut butter with peanuts and salt.
Health wise, the best PB is added sugar and hydrogenated oil free. Valencia peanuts are the best because they have the lowest amount of aflatoxin. This is a mold by-product that is hard on the liver. Trader Joe’s brand and Kirkland (Costco) brand use Valencia peanuts.
Natural (just peanuts and salt, no added oil or sugar) FTW
Seems like if you are making cookies, you would be better off with the simpler pure-peanuts-and-salt variety, and add saturated fats to compensate as necessary, rather than counting on whatever weird additions Big Peanut Butter adds to their various products. I know I’d rather have control over the quantity, quality and taste of the additions for a more repeatable recipe that doesn’t depend on brand or trade-secret formulas. In other words, what you shown is that "peanut butter" is not a consistent product from which to base a recipe.
There’s only one type of peanut butter – the ones that have two ingredients: peanuts and salt. Everything else has emulsifiers, sugars, low quality oil swapped for the peanut oil. If it’s not just peanuts and salt, you’re eating peanut flavored cake frosting.
“This is terrible”
“You have insulted my family”
Too bad they stopped making Peter Pan whipped peanut butter..
JIF…where’s the JIF? You can even pronounce it gif!
Skippy way to dry
I like how the "nuttiest" peanut butter probably has the least amount of peanuts.
When I’m baking cookies I always use Skippy. It’s less sweet which is great especially if your recipe has added sugar in it.
Adams has always been my favorite (it used to be made near my home in Tacoma, WA). Delicious natural butter. I think Smucker’s purchased the brand some years ago.
They call it Skippy cause you’re supposed to skip it. Hydronated oil is poison to your brain
Kroger brand (natural) – is nothing but peanuts, peanut oil and salt. But personally, – I like the Kroger crunchy (natural, of course!) I have a friend who is crazy about Skippy Honey Roasted.
Bummed that I don’t see Santa Cruz Organics! The best for the natural types, in my opinion.
How on EARTH can you, a Boston-based company, not mention Teddy — a local favorite (Everett, MA) — in any sort of peanut butter comparison? I’ve made my own in a coffee grinder (it’s easy and tastes better than anything in a jar), and Teddy is as close as you can get in a jar.
It’s nothing but peanuts and peanut oil. Period. I love it, and I suggest that whatever it is that comes in that jar of Skippy should be labelled something like "Peanut flavored Spread". It is to real peanut butter what margarine is to real butter.
Peter Pan, all the oil and sugar. #1
Jasons
I grew up with Skippy, and didn’t care much for Jif or Peter Pan. But as an adult, I only eat Smucker’s Natural, or fresh-ground peanut butter. I’ve never heard of Adams, but I’ll look for it next time I go shopping.
Sugar free Jif is the best! It tastes just like regular Jif. Try it! You’ll be surprised!