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Peanut butter is just blendered up peanuts? I would have thought there was more to it than that.
That is how you make "natural" peanut butter. The oils will separate and need to be mixed with each use. A lot of store bought peanut butter also include emulsifiers to keep the oil from separating, and often sugar or other sweeteners.
You can put it in the fridge to counteract this and in my experience it remains spreadable, unlike preblended natural pb I sometimes buy. This might have to do with how much oil is extracted from the nuts in each process, however, so YMMV.
I have never had issues with pre-blended PB not spreading. You just mix the oil separation back in and it spreads fine. You don't need to refrigerate it; mixing it before use is not much labour.
also it's so YMMY
:)
I think OP made the kind that will settle and have to be stirred before use. Maybe the no stir kind takes a few extra steps?