(This clever tool mixes the oil back into natural peanut butter)I love kitchen gadgets, but not frivolous ones; I like the ones that serve a purpose.
There are some gadgets that have never seen the light of day in my kitchen — a bell pepper corer, a serrated bread knife that looks like a violin bow, a hi-tech corkscrew — all well-intentioned gifts that have yet to be used. Sometimes, less is more.
My brother gave me a gadget for Christmas, and I have been loving it every time I open a new jar of natural, nonhydrogenated peanut butter.
The Natural Peanut Butter Mixer from Lehmans mixes up a new jar of peanut butter without the mess. My husband, who loves his natural peanut butter, was a bit skeptical at first. We would resort to a butter knife to mix in the oil that rises to the top of the peanut butter, stirring and stirring and dripping and dripping it all over the counter, our arms, and inevitably, down the counter and onto the floor.
Enter this handy little gadget that screws on top of the jar with the stirrer set into the peanut butter. A few turns and, presto! perfectly smooth peanut butter without any mess.
I think Lehmans is my new favorite catalog store (after the Vermont Country Store, that is). Founded in 1955 to serve the Amish community and others without electricity, Lehmans features old-fashioned items that serve a purpose. Made in the USA, the Natural Peanut Butter Mixer sells for $9.95.
Now that's one handy gadget.
Woonderful - a useful gadget! I am remarkably not gadget oriented at all - a knife seems to take care of most of my needs. Imagine - I never heard of a peanut butter stirrer until now - grand to note that it works!
ReplyDeleteIt's a fun little gadget, Claudia, but you're right, a knife is a magic wand in the kitchen.
ReplyDeleteWOW!!! Thanks for sharing - what a God-send!! That will solve a really annoying recurring problem, as breakfast for me on most days is some sort of grain-based thing (i.e., rice cake, English muffin, crumpet, etc.) topped with some sort of natural nut butter eaten at my day job, and with Mondays being as horrible as they are in their naturally occurring state, it won't be such an insult to injury anymore to have the "Oh no! A new jar of almond/ cashew/ whatever-butter to have to deal with in the office kitchen" on top of it!
ReplyDeleteP.S. What a good kitty Giacomo is to be able to have his bubble bath in the kitchen sink! Bathing the four Panache Cats is a team effort in which Chi catches them and herds them into the bathroom where I am stripped down and ready in the bath tub with their kitty baths drawn in dish pans and their shampoo mixed up, ready to suds them down and rinse them off while Chi holds the shower curtain closed in case someone gets the idea of trying to jump through it, and then towel-dries them off and lets them out to go lick themselves completely dry in a sunny window spot while I clean up.
This is great! What a useful gadget! I did not know there was such a thing. I love the Vermont Country Store catalog.
ReplyDeleteWhat a neat gadget! I LOVE peanut butter.
ReplyDeleteRight, this gadget would help you jump start the week at work; I highly recommend it, Fiddlerchick.
ReplyDeleteAnd what a funny story about bathing your kitties! You have to do what you have to do. My other kitty, Carlos, sounds like I am killing him, but he puts up with it. Giacomo's such a goofy boy, he doesn't mind it much at all.
If you like the Vermont Country Store, I think you will like Lehmans, Pam.
Yo should definitely get yourself one of these, Michele!
What an intriguing gadget.
ReplyDeleteNow this is one cool gadget! As if I need more to add to my collection.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good one to add to the collection, Eliana.
ReplyDeleteIt's very useful, Mango.
Now that is one clever gadget! I'll have to check out those sites you mentioned.
ReplyDeleteI think you would love those sites, Claudia. There is plenty of good, old-fashioned stuff and hard-to-find items there.
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