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Is commercial peanut butter always pasteurized? If so, they must have not been too clean or did a good job with the recent peanut butter recall.
Is commercial peanut butter always pasteurized?
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There were peanut butter recalls in the past. Hard to think of a food product that hasn't had a recall at one time or another.
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Food processor + large jar of dry roasted peanuts. Keep pushing the mixture down off the side of the bowl, the heat from the blades will finish job in literally, less than 3 min. Store in a jar in the fridge.
No pasteurization, no preservatives, no recalls.
No pasteurization, no preservatives, no recalls.
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The local WINCO has a fresh made peanut butter machine you operate yourself. I think they have one for cashew and maybe almond butter one too.
And how often and how well do those machines get cleaned? I expect you're much better off making your own at home.
I have the original peanut butter maker for the original peanut butter...the nut butter blade for my great-grandmother's old hand cranked meat grinder. It still works "off grid".
I grow the peanuts. I shell the peanuts. I freeze the peanuts. I roast the peanuts as needed, which I believe gets them into pasteurization territory temperature wise, then run them through the VitaMix. Peanutbutter, which is then stored in the refrigerator until used up. The VitaMix is cleaned every time I use it. The jar the peanutbutter goes into is clean every time I refill it. Just not too worried.
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If I recall from college, you have to roast peanuts of have other control to eleminate salmonella. When it’s slips through, I don’t if that an incitement of poor control of the roasting, poor hygiene, or poor process control that allows salmonella to grow.
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RE: the peanut butter recall, was that about the processing or the original condition of the peanuts?
They never really said from what I read online but I would say it was about the processing. Even if there was something salmonella related happening with the raw peanuts, the roasting process should have killed that. What came after the roasting, though, could have seen something introduced, poor handling, disgruntled worker doing something, a machine that hadn't been cleaned like it should have, it's hard to know.
They have not said what the source of the problem was in the latest case, may not have identified it yet. In at least one previous incident it was a leaking roof. Most of our food factories are decades old now and many are poorly maintained.
In the above case, birds shat on roof, water from roof leaked inside when it rained and splashed on /around food processing lines, and there you go, peanut butter salmonella/E. coli special.
In the above case, birds shat on roof, water from roof leaked inside when it rained and splashed on /around food processing lines, and there you go, peanut butter salmonella/E. coli special.
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Natural peanut butter supposedly lasts the longest. Up to one year. I do not know if it is pasteurized. It is possible that it is.
I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or not. My peanuts get dried in the shell, then shelled, then immediately frozen. When they come out of the freezer, they get washed and then roasted. Then they're ground into peanut butter. The peanut butter lives in the fridge and rarely lasts longer than about 2 weeks.
Interestingly, just about every neighbor around me said that their family grew peanuts many years ago. But not a single one of them had a clue as to what to do with them or how to process them. I guess that's kind of a lost art.
One thing about it, I'm not shooting for long "shelf life". It might be that I'd be more worried about processing temperatures if it was going to sit on a shelf for months or years before consumption. (?)
Interestingly, just about every neighbor around me said that their family grew peanuts many years ago. But not a single one of them had a clue as to what to do with them or how to process them. I guess that's kind of a lost art.
One thing about it, I'm not shooting for long "shelf life". It might be that I'd be more worried about processing temperatures if it was going to sit on a shelf for months or years before consumption. (?)
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Ours had a honey dispenser next to the peanut butter too. There used to be signs on them that said "warning, live bees do not open" but I'm pretty sure that it wasn't true🤣
The Winco peanut butter is good stuff. It needs stirring if it's left to sit before you use it
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