Mar 22 2009
Ten Unusual Uses of Peanut Butter
HUH! The wonderful uses of Peanut Butter I’ve actually used this to remove the price tag attached on several items and to untangle my daugher’s hair sometimes during her younger days. I didn’t realize there are 8 more unusual uses for it, amazing! 10. Lube it UP
Peanut butter is an excellent lubricator. If your lawnmower blades are getting a little tight and rusty - smear on some of the spread and voila - perfect lubrication. This hint is particularly useful because almost every time I need lube, I don’t have any around - but I always have a jar of peanut butter in the cupboard. It can be used for virtually all your lubrication needs
If you own a cat or a dog, you will know how hard it can be to get them to take their medication - especially when it is in pill form. Fortunately cats and dogs love peanut butter - so next time you have to give them some medication, mix it up with a spoonful and feed it to them. No more struggling with the animal as you hold its mouth open and try to force feed it a bitter pill.
Most recipes that use butter can be cooked with peanut butter instead. In cookies and cakes this can make a wonderful and subtle taste difference. Next time you are making fudge brownies, try using peanut butter instead - it will be like eating a huge Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. You can also stir peanut butter into a sauce instead of butter to give it a nutty finish
Mice are not particularly fond of cheese - so it is strange that it is the first food people go for when they are baiting their mousetraps. What most people don’t know is that mice prefer peanut butter - how this has been proven I do not know, but the fact that peanut butter is so much cheaper than cheese, makes this tip a very handy and frugal one. So next time you need to bait a mouse trap, don’t bother loading it with camembert or 5 year aged cheddar, stick on some trusty peanut butter.
6. Price Tag Removal
If you have ever fried fish, you will know that it leaves behind a rather unpleasant fishy smell in the house. To help eradicate the smell, take a tablespoon of peanut butter after you have finished frying the fish, drop it in the frying pan and fry it off for a minute or two. The smell of peanut butter is the house is much more enjoyable than stale fish and oil.
This one doesn’t seem quite so weird, but it is included because these cookies use peanut butter as the main ingredient - there is no flour at all. The cookies are a mix of peanut butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla. You can even throw in a handful of chocolate chips if you wish. The resulting cookies are amazingly tasty and it only takes about 20 minutes from start to finish. You can read the full recipe here, which is also the source of the image above. The site is my sister’s, so check out the other articles too!
Believe it or not, peanut butter makes a great shaving gel. Just apply it like you would apply the gel, and shave as normal. It works just as well and anyone that has bought a container of shaving gel will know, it is a hell of a lot cheaper. The end result is a very smooth shave and, as a bonus, the oils in the peanut butter are very good for your skin, so you don’t need to spend even more money on moisturizer for your legs or face. You might want to remember to use smooth peanut butter though - the chunky stuff doesn’t work quite as well. If you want to see this in action, a rather foul-mouthed girl has made a youtube clip of herself shaving her legs. You can view it here - but be warned - there is plenty of obscene language so it isn’t safe for work.
