Ingredients
Posted by Patrick Corkum on May 12, 2010
I really want to know if I am being ridiculous or not. Yesterday (and many other times), I have peered into the Peanut Butter jar in the hopes of making a delicious peanut butter sandwich. I unscrew the top, look inside and there’s white crusty stuff in the peanut butter jar! See, my darling wife, God bless her, doesn’t want to clean the knife or get a new one when making fluffernutters. She makes them regularly for the kids and always puts the fluff on first. Then, using the same knife, goes for the peanut butter. So, am I nutso for being annoyed? I mean, the incremental cost of washing two knives over 1 is nil since we use a dishwasher. In addition, we have plenty of knives. If we were to run out, I could walk over to the in-laws (10 feet away) and grab one of theirs. But once that fluff gets in the peanut butter jar… it’s all over… start a new jar! So, am I alone in this?
Pat,
You are not alone! I’m a big believer that PB should remain untainted, as should butter be free from crumbs! We don’t do fluffernutters here, but PBJ has strict protocol; Jelly gets put on first bc it’s easy to rinse a knife off, dry it, then put on PB while only using one knife. Then nothing gets gooped up with something it shouldn’t! That wouldn’t work with fluff, but 2 knives just might, although I do have a petpeeve about using more utensils than I really “need”. I love your darling wife, I’m sure she’s simply trying to be efficient. Maybe you should get your own PB jar that nobody else usesso it’s fluff free everytime?
get your own jar of peanut butter.
I’ve tried.