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I love the fair, and I love peanut butter, but I never thought I would see the two come together. However, a Smuckers Peanut Butter stand greeted us immediately upon entering the Topsfield Fair last month, and they were giving away free samples of natural peanut butter! Be still my heart. During our second visit to the stand, we noticed they were stirring the peanut butter with this nifty contraption.
If you are a fan of natural peanut butter, you know what a pain it is to stir. The liquidy part gets displaced when you insert your stirring utensil and sloshes over the side, and you always end up with dry bits at the bottom. I don't know about you, but I was very frustrated by the peanut butter stirring experience and was excited to see that gadget specific to this task existed. The woman told us we could buy it from the Smuckers Web site, but we found it on Amazon.com, where we got free super saver shipping after ordering some other stuff.
Grandpa Witmer's Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Mixer consists of a lid, a gasket-type thing, and a stirring rod with a plastic handle. The lid fits a standard-size peanut butter jar. It is a pretty simple device--essentially, you just insert the rod through a hole in the lid and turn the handle. It can take a bit of muscle on the first few turns. The curved design of the stirring rod allows all the peanut butter to be mixed at once, and even scrapes along the bottom to prevent those dry bits from collecting. The most amazing part is, when you pull the rod out, it is completely free of peanut butter, like you never even used it. The lid somehow has a self-cleaning mechanism. The downside, of course, is that there is no spoon to lick!
I just finished my first jar of peanut butter than I stirred with the mixer, and it stayed consistently mixed throughout. There was no oil pooling at the top, nor were there dried bits at the bottom. I'd recommend Grandpa Witmer's Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Mixer to frequent natural peanut butter eaters. It can be purchased at many Web sites, but I got mine from Amazon.com for $10.95.
