I have a suggestion that I haven't tried. Spoon the amount of peanut butter into a micro wave bowl. Try warming the peanut butter till it is warm. Try increments of the heat.
I may have to try my suggestion. I should have done it before I brought the idea to bare. Gary Patterson -----Original Message----- From: juliette via Cookinginthedark [mailto:cookinginthedark@acbradio.org] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 10:30 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: juliette Subject: Re: [CnD] Peanut Butter Problem Hey, I love your sense of humor. Keep spreading _that. I was born blind also and don't ever ask me to put icing on a cake-that winds up looking like a braille map with lots of mountains. Needless to say, I have two limited suggestions. One, I _never put my pb in the refrigerator. And two, I use a sandwich spreader, like a wide knife. Otherwise, I'm in the same boat you are. Cheers, Juliette ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee Mounger via Cookinginthedark <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> To: cooking in the dark <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> Date: 06/30/2016 12:25 pm Subject: [CnD] Peanut Butter Problem > > > Hi Folks, > > > Well, here's a question that I've been thinking about asking this > forum for literally years. I'm not a great cook like my wife of 35 > years but I've always cooked and consider myself a reasonably decent cook. > However, there's one thing that drives me crazy over the years. I > just can't seem to <pardon the pun> lick it. It's like something so > simple that even though I'm a college-educated, reasonably intelligent > musician for forty years, the problem is so stupid that I'm just > missing something or on the other hand, is it a relevant small problem > for totally blind people. > > > The question, how in the heck do Y'all spread peanut butter to your > desired thickness on bread? So far, which is all of my life since > being born without sight, I've had no problem spreading mustard, > mayonaise etc, on bread. However, spreading peanut butter on bread > for me is like going to war with Skippy or Peter Pan, lol. I try not > to touch the bread as much as possible when making a pb sandwich for > someone else. I don't mind being tactile with it when I'm making it > for myself but it's still war. > > > I mean, pbutter was not meant to spread, no matter what they say. For > me, it clumps up when it first lands on the bread and proceeds to > build itself into a nice ball which is quite willing to follow me all > over the bread while I try to spread it. As I try and spread the > little ball or balls out all over the bread, the peanut butter > concentrates on establishing a little village of ball houses > surrounded by roomy yards of bear bread, lol. Oh I finally get it > done, but when I do, despite my best efferts, I usually end up with a > sandwich with very thick peanut butter in some places and other places > with apparently Please Limit Peanut Butter signs I can't see, <grin>. > > > I'd really appreciate any suggestions about how you attack the peanut > butter spreading problem as well as how you generally spread anything > on bread the way you wanted it, not the way it wants it, sort of a > spreading tutorial for the blind. Any help and suggestions will be > greatly appreciated. Whew, thank goodness I don't really like jelly, > <grin>. > > > Lee Mounger > > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
