Here goes nothing
Edit: I didn’t like it :(
I don’t know if I ate wrong or what but this just tastes super weird. No idea why it’s so popular
Edit 2: I just remembered I loved peanuts dipped in honey as a kid. That’s kinda similar. I wonder why I didn’t like this then.
Did?
peanut butter and slices of banana. 👍
You gotta try peanut butter and cheddar cheese. It’s amazing
Jelly is your first mistake. Adult tastes are much more likely to prefer jam.
Organic strawberry jam, old-fashioned (i.e., no added sugar) peanut butter and wheat bread sweetened with honey rather than sugar, that’s the ticket.
“Old fashioned peanut butter”
Fucking America and your disgusting food shit. I’ll never stop feeling ill when I remember that peanut butter has sugar in it in the US (It’s doesn’t in most of the world). And PB&J sandwiches are on the edge of being too sweet for me with real peanut butter and a thin layer of jam. I’m convinced Americans get broken in some way when it comes to food when they’re toddlers because of all the disgusting shit and that just never goes away.
“This guy suggests avoiding extra sugar when possible, I’m gonna insult him” ok buddy
Honestly, peanut butter and honey is where it’s at.
And don’t just spread each one on your bread - mix them together on a plate and then spread the mixture on buttered bread.
I just spread it on the plate and lick it up.
In Taiwan, we put peanut butter + honey on our burgers.
Are you American? If there’s one thing the US does leagues better than the rest of the world it’s peanut butter.
I still like our local peanut butter. But American is soooo much better.
As an American, I’ll say that there is really a big spread (ha!) on peanutbutter quality. Too much of it is too sweet, packed with corn syrup. JIF is the standard, and is okay. The good stuff comes in a glass jar, must be stirred beforehand, and has the ingredients list “peanuts, salt”
No I am not American. This peanut butter was bought in Germany where I currently reside although I’m not German either.
That might be the problem. My understanding is that European peanut butter is more like peanut paste and PB&Js don’t work as well with it.
Nah, it’s peanut butter, just the American stuff is whipped through with more sugar than peanut. It’s the sugar.
As a non American who has tried this and enjoyed it as a kid, I have to say the jam has to be grape to hit the spot. Where I live that’s an unusual one, I don’t usually see grape marmalade when grocery shopping, and the few times I tried to make a PB&J using other jam/marmalade I was very disappointed. Blackberry jam is probably the most passable one though, out of the easy to find flavors.
What was your ratio roughly? I’ve found you need less peanut butter than you think and more jelly than you think. When it’s right it’s usually a nice mix of sweet and salty. However it’s of course not for everyone!
Oh maybe you’re right. I used roughly equal amounts of both
Yea, bad ratio for sure, need way less jam. I find apple butter a better complement to peanut butter, and you want a thin layer.
Plus most peanut butters today are sweetened, making this sandwich problematic.
The idea behind jelly (or other sweeteners) was peanut butter lacks sweetness, it just has salt.
Get some organic/natural peanut butter, it’ll have a different taste than the sweetened crap.
I used non sweetened peanut butter. I have that at home anyway because I make some savory dishes with peanut butter.
Then it was too much jam/jelly. Should be maybe as much as you put on toast, like 1/8 the amount of peanut butter, as it’s very sweet.
That said, it may just not be your… jam… 😁
I agree with natural pb - no added corn syrup. I also like using a cheaper whole wheat bread - same spongy texture as a normal american white bread, but with a but more flavor.
Apple butter I’m split on. I see the main role of the jelly in a pb&j as a lubrication agent to make the pb and bread not choke you to death, and I think you’d need a lot of apple butter to get there. Also, I feel like the milder flavor of the apple butter would be overwhelmed by the pb. I prefer using strawberry preserves as my jelly, which has the additional benefit of adding an aspect of heterogeneity to the sandwich.
Did you do no research at all? White bread, grape jelly, smooth peanut butter.
Nevertheless, it’s a mediocre sandwich. The popularity is because it’s cheap, shelf-stable ingredients, compatible with a child’s palate. Adults rarely eat them, and when they do it’s mostly out of nostalgia for their childhood.
Smooth peanut butter? I didn’t know we had heathens here on Lemmy. Crunchy or nothing.
Plus one for the crunchy crew!
plus two!
smooth peanut butter.
crunchy peanut butter is just a half job.
Those guys on city road crews leaning on shovels for three months? they like crunchy.
Yeah, the reality is, you aren’t gonna find pb&j on a restaurant menu anywhere. pb&j exists because it is a cheap and easy way to feed kids, and you really won’t understand the hype as an adult.
The only time I or other adults I know eat them is when we are doing something like going for a hike, when the shelf-stable nature of the ingredients and high caloric density are assets.
Also, for an authentic pb&j experience, you must make the sandwich in the morning, crush it with several books, and then eat it around 11am.
Nope. I probably should have researched yeah
Crunchy or smooth?
There’s crunchy??
What exactly is crunching?Small pieces of peanuts.
Rodent bones.
With peanut chunks maybe?
Smooth
I always go with the crunch, I need some texture to contrast a little with the otherwise softness of the bite and I’m too lazy to wait three minutes for bread to toast
Its better if you use fresh, coarse ground (not chunky) peanut butter with a little salt and honey in it. Our local grocery store had a grinder in the store where you can make your own. I also prefer to use preserves or jam, not jelly.
For bread, if you can get good fresh bread, its amazing, if not, lightly toasted (but not buttered) honey-wheat is my go to.
You can also make a fluffernutter by substituting the jelly/jam/preserves with marshmallow fluff. Use the good fluff stuff with the red lid though, not the generic stuff. It really does make a difference.
Another good one is peanut butter and banana slices with honey, or peanut butter and apple slices.
PB&J is about the nostalgia too. You have to have started eating it as a kid. 😉
You know I actually really loved peanuts dipped in honey. Maybe I’ll eat that again.
What kind of jelly? I use grape jam
Strawberry
Grape is the ideal
Raspberry!
gross… grape is best
I’m about 20 years older and have never eaten one.
