I need peanut butter help
 

My daughter brought me six jars of homemade peanut butter that she made, but it has already separated. How on earth would I stir this up without breaking a wooden spoon or bending a metal one? Is there something I can stir in that will help it stay mixed? DH loves to put peanut butter and honey on his bagels, can I blend that in, and will it stay mixed? If I can't find a way to get it blended, I will end of giving it to my dogs but the spoonful as a treat. I do hate the idea of wasting so much goodness. Any ideas?

It is normal for peanut butter that does not have all kinds of chemicals, preservatives added to separate... You just take a butter knife & start at the top, stir a little bit, go a little deeper, stir some more, and a little deeper, you work your way to the bottom. As you start using it you give it a good stir each time & it gets easier each time. Been using (natural) peanut butter all my life, have never broken a spoon or bent a knife. Enjoy it, it is the best!

Ditto what ckcowl said. I actually use a steak knife to stir it with. The edge works well in cutting through the thick peanutty part to incorporate the separations.

I would try freezing a jar to see if it will keep it fresher until I got ready to use it. Everything else freezes , that should too. I would try at least one to see. Just my thought.

My daddy grew peanuts and we made peanut butter with them. What others said about stirring is right on but we would put ours in the fridge once mixed. It never separated as long as it was fridgerated. It don't take long to return to room temp for eating. I don't recall ever freezing it. We kept what we weren't using on a shelf, but we ate pretty fast as there were all of us kids. If you have a lot, you might want to try freezing as the oils in the peanut butter will go rancid more quickly than the store stuff.

We use a kitchen aid hand blender to mix ours, its a bit messy that first time but one it's mixed really well, put the lid on and store it upside down in the fridge. It will stay mixed and ready to use!

Turn the jar upside down to get the oil in the bottom. Then I usually pour it into a container like those Pyrex bowls with the red lids, stir and refrigerate. Doesn't separate and is a lot easier to get what you want without getting it all over your hands and counter.

I buy Natural Peanut Butter all the time. I set it on my pantry shelf upside down until ready to open (i keep 2-3 on hand). Then when I open I use one beater in my mixer and get the oil beat back into it. Then keep in fridge as I use it. I love natural PB as there are no sugars added.

I buy natural peanut butter, and immediately put it in a bowl with a lid. The wide bowl makes it much easier to stir.

I make my own peanut butter and don't add oil at all. I use one jar of dry roasted peanuts, 1/4 cup splenda, 1 tsp. sea salt. Put all that in a food processor and turn on. It will make a big clump and you might think it's done but don't stop. The clump will all smooth out as the oils are brought out and It will become real creamy. I then store in the fridge. Yummy and no added oil.

Oh and it never has to be stirred again as it doesn't separate.

Natural peanut butter is the best! Sometimes I pour the oil off to use for baking or frying. Then the pb is like eating fresh roasted peanuts ... just right off a spoon! Towards the end of the jar it might become a choking hazard so it keeps limits on intake or I would just keep munching and I don't like peanut butter otherwise.

This is how I make mi e except without Splenda or any sweetener. Tastes great. And, you know exactly what's in it.

I always buy the natural PB because it tastes so good (no sugar!). Then I scoop it all out into a mixing bowl and beat it smooth. Then I put it back into the jar again.
It keeps great in the fridge and does not separate again.

Misty's Mom has it right with storing it upside down.

I grew up eating peanut butter mixed with honey, love it still and so do my 2 dogs. Just stir in some honey and mix well and you are good to go.

They do sell a lid with a built in stirrer-should be able to find at health food stores etc, too.
http://www.amazon.com/Witmer-Company.../dp/B000A3I3BA

Stir it carefully with a butter knife and when you put the lid back on, store them upside down.

I bought one of these peanut butter stirrers from Lehman's, it works very well, no mess either.
https://www.lehmans.com/p-788-natura...ter-mixer.aspx

I love natural peanut butter and do like others said, too: I keep it in the fridge. Mine keeps great that way!

Here I thought I was clever when I started to store natural peanut butter upside down.

When we open a jar I give it a good stir. If it is really hard on the bottom, I dump it all into the mixer, give it a good mixing then put it back in the jar.

If I open a big jar, I keep it in the fridge after mixing. The small ones get used up so fast that I do not bother with the fridge.

Peanut butter is a food group in my house. Ds eats at least one small (2 cup) jar a week.