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N.P. asks from Santa Rosa, CA on February 04, 2012

Peanut Butter in the Fridge or in the Pantry?

Do you put your jar of peanut butter in the refrigerator even though nowhere on the jar does it say, "Please refrigerate after opening"? (I do, but I don't know why... it makes it difficult to spread it on bread.)

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G.B. answers from Oklahoma City on February 04, 2012

How hilarious!!!! I laughed until I started coughing up goo. I have been sick for a week and this just helped me feel better in more ways than one. She sounds like a wonderful little girl.

My grandson put my Samsung Mesmerize in the jar of PB the other day...he was mad at me. The phone seems fine but the PB went in the trash.

I keep mine on top of the microwave. Probably not the best place since it appears to be easy access plus it can get warm from the heat when I am using the microwave.

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F.C. answers from Tampa on February 04, 2012

Pantry

It does NOT need to be refrigerated.

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A.H. answers from Canton on February 04, 2012

I keep ours in the pantry but my Mom always kept it in the fridge..never had any problems with it in the pantry and it's alot easier to spread if its not cold

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K.M. answers from Chicago on February 04, 2012

Natural Peanut Butter (with the oil on top) goes in the fridge
Skippy/Jif etc stays in the pantry.
My 5 year old says a "lady zombie" will go hungry - then asked if she's pretty - she may have a champion here.

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T.R. answers from Orlando on February 04, 2012

pantry, and the all natural kind, too. Not sure why people think it needs to be in the fridge, it's just peanuts and salt. Mine never really even separates, just nice and creamy all of the time, yum! :-)

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K.P. answers from Santa Fe on February 04, 2012

Our family has usually had natural peanut butter (the kind made of just peanuts and salt, no hydrogenated oil or sugar or anything else that keeps it from separating). For years, both my mom and I have kept the PB in a cupboard because it only suggested refrigeration to keep the oil from separating and rising to the top, and it was easy enough to mix the oil back into room-temperature PB. She still keeps hers out, but I noticed just in the past year or so that the label has changed to recommending refrigeration, and I don't know why. I'm guessing it's probably just a precaution, "just in case", to keep it from spoiling if you don't use it quickly enough, but I now store mine in the fridge, though it wouldn't bother me to keep it out.

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G.B. answers from Oklahoma City on February 04, 2012

How hilarious!!!! I laughed until I started coughing up goo. I have been sick for a week and this just helped me feel better in more ways than one. She sounds like a wonderful little girl.

My grandson put my Samsung Mesmerize in the jar of PB the other day...he was mad at me. The phone seems fine but the PB went in the trash.

I keep mine on top of the microwave. Probably not the best place since it appears to be easy access plus it can get warm from the heat when I am using the microwave.

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M.C. answers from Detroit on February 04, 2012

Jif, so the pantry. I don't buy any other brand.

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K.L. answers from Sacramento on February 04, 2012

Definitely pantry... And that's one cute zombie!!

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Y.C. answers from Orlando on February 04, 2012

Most of them go to the pantry, but once I got a fancy one (natural) and it had to be refrigerated, and stood there while we all secretly eat the cheap one in the pantry, lol.

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A.M. answers from New York on February 04, 2012

I buy organic kind and the oil separates. I'm not sure if it says refrigerate on it or not, but I do. I think regardless I would.

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S.W. answers from Minneapolis on February 04, 2012

I use Parker's natural peanut butter. It needs to be kept in the fridge. The ingredients are peanuts and salt. And, it is not, and never, separates! I hate the kind you have to stir.

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C.N. answers from Baton Rouge on February 05, 2012

My ex mil kept everything except canned goods in the fridge including peanut butter. You needed a jackhammer just to get any out of the jar. I buy presevative free natural peanut butter and it stays in the pantry. I have never had it spoil.

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C.O. answers from Washington DC on February 05, 2012

N.:

I don't put my peanut butter in the refrigerator. I know people who do. Even natural (no preservatives added) peanut butter is fine in the pantry.

OH MY WORD!! Your daughter sounds hilarious!!! thanks for sharing!!

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