Heathens, all of you. Chunky peanut butter first on both slices, wipe knife on bread edge, then apply jelly to one or both slices.
How do you make a PBJ?
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I mean… your wife has literally always done PB first and then preserves (because she does things the right way), and there is no PB in the jelly jar, so isn’t your thinking flawed?
So does he trims the crusts off for you when he makes them for the family? Also why do crusts bother some people?
I used to when our kids were little! Admittedly, I have been known to peel off the crusts if it is a particularly dry type of bread. I generally don’t put everything all of the way out to the edges to avoid spillage, so it is just dry bread in those cases.
I do agree with those who have said that PB&J toast is where it is at. I eat that open-faced.
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"literally always" = the 4 sandwiches you've ever made in your life?
Because I wasn't using my bread fast enough in college before it would go bad, I started using tortilla shells instead. Spread a healthy layer of chunky peanut butter first, then apply jelly, gnutella, or honey. Mini-twix bars occasionally make an appearance alongside the gnutella.
Tell the wife to do it.
Shortly after she throws the knife at me I rethink that decision.
Wait a few days until the emotional scaring is past and then make my own.
(Jelly squeeze bottle, PB with knife)
Shortly after she throws the knife at me I rethink that decision.
Wait a few days until the emotional scaring is past and then make my own.
(Jelly squeeze bottle, PB with knife)
You know it's the off-season when we get a 6 page thread on how to make a PB&J
After a couple of years making PB&J for my kids and randomly selecting which goes first, I have converged on the jelly-first approach as I'm typically making two sandwiches simultaneously (two kids) and value efficiency in this process above all else. I want to minimize the mess and the amount of dishes while maximizing speed. Jelly rinses off of the knife much more easily than PB. So, jelly on one half of each sandwich first, rinse the knife to limit cross contamination, then PB on the other half.
The cherry on top here is that I can finish by licking the remaining PB off of the knife, or even go back in for another knife-full for myself.
Until now, I had not considered the greater risk of contamination to the PB, since we only refrigerate the jelly, though I do feel that this is at least somewhat mitigated by the greater ease with which the jelly rinses off of the knife.
The cherry on top here is that I can finish by licking the remaining PB off of the knife, or even go back in for another knife-full for myself.
Until now, I had not considered the greater risk of contamination to the PB, since we only refrigerate the jelly, though I do feel that this is at least somewhat mitigated by the greater ease with which the jelly rinses off of the knife.
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Additionally, I think you really have to examine the desired outcome of the algorithm in order to compare them. Someone who values speed and few dirty dishes is probably going to have a different method than someone who is simply after making the best sandwich.
Reminds me of , “You got peanut butter on my chocolate! No, you got chocolate in my peanut butter!”
