How to Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich the Right Way

The art of making a delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich lies fully in the creator's ability to devote ample time towards selecting quality ingredients, and the application of those ingredients. Everything from the bread, to both the peanut butter and the jelly must be carefully selected, with a blind eye towards price. An ideal combination of the required goods would be a bottle of Welch's Grape Jelly, a bottle of JIF creamy peanut butter, and a loaf of Wonder Bread (the classic white kind).

The initial step in the creation of a delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich is hand selecting two slices of bread; any two slices will suffice. Once the slices have been selected, its time to prep them for the toaster. The key to toasting the bread correctly is to refrain from letting the bread become crispy. Put the toaster on a temperature level that will heat up the slices, to a point where there are not entirely soft, but at the same time lack an overwhelming amount of crispiness.

Once the bread has been toasted, its time for the most difficult part of creating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich--the application stage. It is here where a good sandwich can easily turn in to a bad sandwich in a matter of seconds, due to a poor job of even distribution. Peanut butter, which is the easier to spread out of the two, is the one that usually gives people the least trouble. After opening the bottle of JIF, you must then dip a knife in the bottle, making sure to scoop an amount the size of two of your pinkies. Once you have this scoop on your knife, place it on the right edge of one of the slices of bread, then spread it around in a counter-clockwise motion, making sure all parts of the bread are accounted for, and all have the same amount.

The next step is the application of the grape jelly, which can often be chaotic. Jelly is very clumpy, so it's easy to grab too much. Your almost perfect peanut and jelly sandwich will feel over powered by the strong presence of jelly, and the minute abundance of peanut butter. The secret to the successful application of jelly is to again take the knife and make use of an amount the size of your pinky (half that of peanut butter). Apply this jelly to the top right corner of the unaccounted slice of bread, then spread that around in the same counter-clockwise fashion as you did the peanut butter. Some area's can be misrepresented for it is alright, the last step will take care of the discrepancies.

The last and final step in creating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is to join the two slices of bread together. The side with peanut butter and the side with jelly must face one and other, when at which point you can press gently to get everything as even as possible. Once this is done the last thing to do is eat it! Bon Appetit!