We are having a family breakfast and the debate came up. Do you butter the toast before putting on the peanut butter? Or do you just put the peanut butter straight on your toast?
We are having a family breakfast and the debate came up. Do you butter the toast before putting on the peanut butter? Or do you just put the peanut butter straight on your toast?
I didn’t realize there was people that put butter on their toast before putting peanut butter on. Like, I can see it with jam because the intent is for the butter to hold the jam on. But peanut butter is already sticky, so I never really thought of it.
I disagree! The butter greatly enhances the flavor moreso than keeping the jam on. If anything it allows the jam to slide off more easily.
this may depend on the jam. I found when I make homemade jam that if I don’t have a butter bottom, it ends up gliding all over the toast and doesn’t spread as easy/doesn’t stick
It depends entirely on the jelly/ jam and consistency of such. Different temperatures will have different results as well. It pretty much comes down to how wet your spread is.
What kind of jam are you making? My partner recently got into making blackberry jam and we dont have issues with liquidity. Maybe the jam needs to be dehydrated more before it’s canned?
I’m not sure what type it is called, we combine sure jell pectin, sugar and berries. So it’s not /completly/ homemade as it is using an agent, but it’s close enough for us.
We made raspberry and blackberry jam with it. Blackberry is the one that I tend to have that issue with, raspberry is hit or miss but generally good
Blackberries are supposed to have natural pectin in them. You could be straining them too much and removing the natural pectin from the juice. Idk worth experimenting with I’d say
We do add butter to ours to help reduce the amount of foaming during the boiling process. So that might have something to do with it too
Bread is coarse and crumbly. Jam is gooey and wet. Surely butter makes it less likely for the jam to stay on. I always assumed it was just for flavour. My grandma used to do butter toast with just a sprinkle of sugar on top, so I never even considered that butter was there for a functional purpose.
Butter on peanut butter is just weird, though, unless you’re buttering before toasting. But then peanut butter is a recent import here, so maybe it’s an old fashioned thing in the places that cultural imperialisted peanut puree unto us. Who’s to say.
I thought that as well, but I found that using butter on bread with homemade jam, the butter acts as a consistency to make it so it doesn’t slide all over the slice. when you do it without it just rolls
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butter, famously the stuff used to lubricate fat children who have become stuck in another object
we don’t use a toxic, heart attack causing substance made with cruelty, violence, and atrocity to make the jam stick. we do it because it’s an addictive substance, and the fat it adds makes things taste good.