Making Peanut Butter with your Juicer
I recently came to the realization that you can use your juicer for other things other than juicing.
Actually, I knew all along it could do things other than juicing. That’s what enticed me to get the Omega 8003 juicer. I was shopping for a juicer in the first place, and when I found the Omega auger juicer to be very impressive. It looked nice and had great reviews. I was still on the fence, but then I had read that it can do things like make pasta and peanut butter and grind coffee and more! At that point, I was sold.
Of course, it felt nice knowing I had those options at my disposal. However, I never got around to using them, or ever trying them out. I really only wanted a juicer to do juicing anyway, not those other features, so I just ignored them. And part of me is too lazy to want to try it out.
But, I decided, what the hell. I have a bag of peanuts lying around, why not try out the “peanut butter” capabilities? It’d be really cool to tell the people I know that I can make my own peanut butter anyway.
The juicer works by forcing produce through an enclosed space. The way it gets juice out is by having small openings that the juice can escape, but the pulp cannot. To make peanut butter, we have to homogenize it, which mashes it up, but still keep the peanut matter and the oils in the same mixture. While this sounds all complicated, it really isn’t. All this means is that we can’t let the oils escape throught holes while the peanut matter is being forced through. To do this, all you have to do is attach something called a “blank”, which simply blocks those holes.
After that, turn on the juicer and throw the peanuts in. As I waited anxiously, sure enough, a butter like substance was coming out of the end. In fact, it looked a lot like peanut butter! I found this pretty amazing, because I never knew this process would be so simple. Cleanup was a little more difficult, but not that bad. Best of all, the peanut butter was really good!
In the end, you can use an Omega juicer for peanut butter. It is very simple and very tasty too. I suggest you at least try it out if you have an auger juicer.
