Well I've been eating peanut butter as long as I can remember. We have never refrigerated peanut butter and never had it go bad. The jar I have now is probably 6 months old and it's still fine. I'm about to turn 68 so that's a lot of peanut butter
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Do you refrigerate peanut butter? Yes or no?
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Same here.
I manage a peanut butter plant here in the south. It is not necessary to refrigerate peanut butter.
If for some reason the oil separates from the peanut butter, you can just heat it to about 100 degrees f. Then mix it before it cools, then let it sit for a day.
Garry
If for some reason the oil separates from the peanut butter, you can just heat it to about 100 degrees f. Then mix it before it cools, then let it sit for a day.
Garry
Ah, peanut butter. Nope, keep it in the cupboard. I did have to return (2) 40oz jars this past week (Jif recall). Both fell in the recall lot range. One was 3/4 empty too. Guess I dodged that bullet. 
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-...ct-jifr-products-sold-us-potential-salmonella
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-...ct-jifr-products-sold-us-potential-salmonella
ttechs
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Ah, peanut butter. Nope, keep it in the cupboard. I did have to return (2) 40oz jars this past week (Jif recall). Both fell in the recall lot range. One was 3/4 empty too. Guess I dodged that bullet.
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-...ct-jifr-products-sold-us-potential-salmonella
Same here, I had had a sandwich out of it and it didn't kill me, so I gave it to the squirrels, they were very happy. We have two or three that come, but for a couple days it was like an invasion. lol
Never had a jar of PB last longer than a month.. I consume it by the tablespoon...
likebike23
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If you eat "all natural" type nut butters the oil can separate. My solution is to stir it when I open it and refrigerate it. Keeps the oil from separating, you dig?
ttechs
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No way on the nanas, it wrecks them post haste.
Yes, the oil will separate as it has nothing to hold it. Quite common for folks to stir before using.
It's the cotton seed and rape seed that stabilizes the peanut oil and keeps it from separating from the peanut butter. Natural typically does not contain rape seen or cotton seed oil.
There seems to be 2 kinds of natural peanut butter. The kind that you buy in a jar comes with the oil separated on the top and needs to be stirred to mix it. If you don't refrigerate it, the oil separates out again.
The second kind (what we buy) is fresh ground in the store from roasted peanuts and the oil doesn't separate. We can keep that in the pantry. If you refrigerate that kind it gets hard and difficult to spread.
I have always just kept peanut butter in a cabinet at room temperature, and have never seen it go rancid or moldy.
I'll try and explain that when I get home tomorrow. I'm at work right now and doing this from my phone isent as easy.
This ^^^
Ingredients on what we buy says peanuts. Stir it well when first opened them straight in the fridge. This type spreads fine when cold.
LOL, this just cracks me up that a person can ask literally ANY technical (not political, social sucks and then of course we now have the bicycle chain repair argument) question and some member will be an expert and will answer.
Seriously, who would have thought we have a PEANUT BUTTER PLANT MANAGER here. How cool is that.
I love peanut butter and I'm very impressed.
BamaBilly
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I like how thin it is and easy to spread natural PB is at room temp. I do have to stir it up every time I use it though.