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In Videos: Extreme PBJ Sandwich-Making
If your PBJ-making has been too pacifist lately, without enough violent smearing of peanut butter on your face or ripping off your shirt, here's a new spin on the kitchen activity. Maybe it's this guy's reaction to a bad batch of peanut butter? Warning: If you’re at work, turn down your volume and/or put on headphones before watching. The video, after the jump....PBJ Debate: Jelly-Side Up or Down?
Photograph by roboppy After so many PBJs in a lifetime, we tend to make them without thinking. Peanut butter here, jelly there. But wait. There's a method to that madness. Instinctively, many people slop peanut butter on the bottom slice and jelly on top. Why? John Kessler, food columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has a theory: "Since taste buds are on the tongue, then the peanut butter goes on the underside so I can taste it first." Kessler goes back and forth, until eventually, he has no idea why he does what he does. But he's got one thing certain: Relative weights and densities are an issue. Heavier ingredients logically go at the bottom, and peanut butter is heavy,...Photo of the Day: Missing Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
If someone in your office ever sends out a mass email about a missing peanut butter and jelly sandwich, retaliate by making a "MISSING" flyer for the sandwich. In my friend's office, one of her coworkers responded to the cry for help by making a flyer for the lost sandwich, which another coworker followed up with by posting a fake newspaper article. The story has a happy ending; my friend informed me, "The sandwich was eventually found and left unbitten." Related: Peanut Butter and Jelly: A Serious Eats Special Report...Save the Environment With PBJs
The PB&J Campaign aims to raise awareness about the positive environmental impact one could make by simply eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich instead of a meat-based alternative. For instance, you could save 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, 280 gallons of water, and 12 to 50 square feet of land by choosing a PBJ instead of a hamburger. If you're not a fan of peanut butter and jelly, there are plenty of other tasty environmentally friendly alternatives that can help slow global warming, reduce water waste, and save land....It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time!
Sometimes, when Serious Eats general manager Alaina Browne gets a free moment, she investigates the seemingly bizarre practice of giving foods a national day of their own. A couple of weeks ago, right after we put the National Pig Day content to bed, Alaina announced that April 2 was National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day....Cool Tool: The Flessenlikker
Photograph from Wikipedia Flessenlikker = "jar licker" in Dutch. Also known as a flessenschraper ("bottle scraper"). The long handle and flexible rubber spatula at the end do just what you think they would: help you get every last scrap from the bottle—especially long, narrow vessels. The joke here is that it's a Norwegian invention that has failed in every country but the Netherlands. The Dutch are smart, though: They probably get at least one more PBJ sandwich out of their respective jars than flessenlikker rejectors....Peanut Butter & Jelly Baby Bib
Okay, so my friends have to start having babies right NOW, so I can get them this adorable bib with jars of peanut butter and grape jelly in love with each other. $8 from Etsy seller hannabear, printed by CafePress. (It's so super cute I almost wish it came in adult sizes! Hey, stop looking at me like that—eating lobster is messy!)...Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich Magnet
Proclaim your love of PB&J to one and all, or at least all of the people who get to see your fridge, by putting this die-cut photographic Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich Magnet on it. $2.99 from fridgedoor.com, and no one will ever again doubt where your sandwich allegiance lies....Peanut Butter and Jelly Spreader
If you've ever had trouble buying something for someone who seems to already have everything, I can all but guarantee they won't have Cuisipro's Peanut Butter and Jelly Spreader. $11 buys you a foot-long tool with color-coded silicon paddles on each end—light brown for the peanut butter and purple for the jelly—to prevent the dreaded bottle cross-contamination and horrible bread tearing that the usage of knives inflicts. Yes, it's dishwasher-safe, and yes, it comes with a 25-year warranty, although really, by the year 2032 our sandwiches should be spreading themselves....Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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