One of my colleagues is genuinely clueless/dumb? Sometimes I just wonder what goes on in there. She’ll say yes to everything, but then we realise later that she didn’t listen to a word anyone’s said.

After 24h of it sitting, it surprisingly has not separated. I’ll give it a few more days. Perhaps these were low-oil peanuts. 🤔 Still tastes pretty good, though.

I’ll give my blender a shot, and if it fails, I’ll drag out my dinosaur hand-me-down food processor. Thank you!

Even if I had the time, I would not do this, haha.

I feel like I might have done this once a very long time ago, and with the fan going inside, the little bits of skins started to get blown around. Makes for an irritating clean up.

Oh, I will have to give it a try with walnuts. My partner is mildly allergic to walnuts only if he eats them, so we have a lot of leftover walnuts from bags of nut/trail mix. Any tips, or treat it much like this peanut butter (roast, blend, salt, etc.) ?

That’d be fun! Might have to give it a go next time I go camping. My yard isn’t big enough for a fire, and too many trees/vines overhanging.

Ya caught me. :'(

I used two silicone spatulas to push them around. My oven has hot spots, so I had to keep checking and moving darker nuts away and paler nuts to the hot spots. Then I just used a spoon to scoop out the ones I didn’t want to roast anymore.

Too much work to flip them all one by one, so just rolled them around and hoped for the best.

Throw it all out on the pan and let the oven do its thing!

I don’t think it’s sold anymore, but this is the closest one I can find:

https://modesens.com/product/ninja-bn701-professional-plus-blender-with-autoiq-gray-102685300

I don’t know the website and can’t find it on the website I bought it on, so buyer beware! I think mine’s 1000W or so. I’ll check tomorrow.

Edit: 1200W! Crushes ice with ease.

Have fun!! Drop questions here if you need any help. It’s nearly bed time for me, so will have to get back to you in the morning if you’re not making it straight away, haha.

I think it is really just to remove the skin. You can use raw (skin on), but I imagine it would just mean having little bits of skin wedged between your teeth and gums…

Same here in Australia. My favourite brands are Mayer’s Mayver’s, Simply Nuts, and Pic’s.

It’s just so much cheaper to make than to buy now. A 380g jar can be $6.30 AUD, when I can get a 1kg bag of peanuts for… $10 AUD? And it’s 1kg of peanut butter.

Thank you!

Sure is. I love dark roasted peanut butter, so whatever peanuts you get (I got blanched and de-skinned. I think some people use raw), roast them to whatever darkness you want.

It’s pretty magical to see it go from whole peanuts to crumbly peanuts to smooth butter.

Ornamental pears do not need to exist, or at least bloom. At. All. Except for the bees. Only for the bees.

Firefly, Community, and Trailer Park Boys.

Lastase pills. Some people don’t know it’s a thing. I wouldn’t be able to eat so many good food like butter, poutine, cheesecake, yoghurt, nachos… I know there are alternatives but they are not the same as the real thing.

Such is life of an EHO. But you do get some amazing places where you think it’s an absolute dive, but the kitchen is spotless. If not… I have videos and photos that live rent free in my head forever now.

Oh boy… I’ve got a few. There is always one that comes to mind, but I’ve had somewhere I just get the creeps when I walk in, and it’s confirmed crawling with cockroaches: In the walls, ceiling panels, floors, under benches, under the ticket machine (RIP), but surprisingly not actually IN food… That I could see. But I’ve always been during the day with people getting food all the time, so it was probably too risky for the cockroaches to get the food.

The one: I walked in, and things get worse and worse. First: Bag of chicken on the floor beside the oven with boiling stock to the left. To the right, someone cutting up cooked meat. Down the back: Back door is wide open. I also get the familiar cockroach feeling.

I turn back to the left and the chicken has gone in to the stock. The person uses a skimmer to skim off the herbs, spices, fats off the top of the stock, and the strainer goes in to the bin… And back in to the stock.

I look back to the right, someone is taking out the rubbish. Ties the dirty bag, drags it out the back door. Comes back, rinses hands for 2 seconds, goes back to cutting meat. No soap.

Cool room is filthy (walls, floors, containers), smells rotten, it’s too warm. I find cockroach nests inside the cool room, and outside of it.

I walk outside the back door to take a breather, and I find rats in the overflowing rubbish bins. Walk back in to the front area (small display case) and it’s warm.

I shut the place for almost 3 weeks. The owner had no idea, I’m sure he got his kids to do the training I ordered him to do because there was no way he could have gotten 98% when I asked him to demonstrated the skills. They tried to move to another Council area, but we gave the EHOs a heads up.

Worst ever.