How+do+they+make+peanut+butter?


 * __HOW DO THEY MAKE PEANUT BUTTER?__**

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Peanut Butter was made in the late 1800’s. It is known as a tasty, healthy treat! Peanut Butter comes in many types of variety’s like crunchy, smooth, light, natural, and regular. So how is peanut butter made? First of all the peanuts are taken to a plant, and treated to get things such as dirt, rocks, sticks ect. Once that process is finished, they are packaged and sent off to another plant. The new plant, then takes the peanut’s and puts them a hot air roaster at 240 Degrees Celsius. Once the peanuts have gone from white to a light brown color, they are quickly cooled at room temperature.

Once roasted and cooled the peanuts are placed in a blancher machine. The blancher machine removes the outer skins by lightly rubbing the peanuts between two belts. The two kernels of each nut are then split and the heart in the middle is removed. The heart of the nut is not used in peanut butter because it is too bitter. But don’t worry, the waste parts of the peanut aren’t wasted, but handed onto manufactures for things like bird food, pig feed, etc. Back to the peanut butter though, the peanuts will then find themselves in a stainless steel container, which grinds the peanuts into a paste at a reasonable pace. Care is taken to not grind the peanuts too quickly as doing so would produce heat and allow the peanuts to begin cooking again. Now we have our peanut butter, but not so much the taste, so to make it the peanut butter we all know and love, a few more ingredients are added such as salt, sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oil. The hydrogenated vegetable oil is considered a stabilizer as it keeps the natural peanut.

Oddly enough, peanut butter is one of the foods that will never need refrigerating. Finally, they do one last mix at 60 degrees celsius, and then take the temperature back down to 32 degrees celsius. After that, the packaging process starts! Did you know that un-opened peanut butter can last up to one year? With its amazing taste, everyone loves peanut butter, and now you know exactly how its made!!

By: Kira Wasylak 8.3

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