Skippy Peanut Butter Vs. Adams Peanut Butter
Skippy peanut butter
Skippy is easy to spread on bread, crackers or on cut up celery.
It is easy to mix into batters for cakes or cookie dough.
The bread doesn't fall apart when you spread Skippy .
The crackers stay in one piece.
Skippy stays on the cut up celery pieces, without running off the edges.
It has an even, very smooth and creamy consistency.
It is perfect for children to use.
It is great on a spoon eaten plain.
It stays where you spread it without dripping all over, which is another plus with children in the house.
Peanut butter oil can leave stains on fabric.
Skippy comes premixed so you do not have to stir it every time the jar is opened.
Skippy is easier to spread right from the refrigerator.
Skippy uses ingredients other than just peanuts and salt that I don't really want like
I read that Skippy now makes a natural variety of peanut butter, but I haven't tried it yet.
Adams peanut butter
Adams is the old fashioned homemade type of peanut butter.
To use it after the jar is first opened, you have to use a knife and/or spoon in order to be able to stir deep down into the jar.
The oil needs to be mixed thoroughly into the thicker peanut butter to give it a easier to spread consistency.
The texture of the mixed Adams is rough, thicker on the tongue and grittier.
The taste stays with you longer, in the taste buds and the nostrils.
Adams has a richer aroma and feel than premixed peanut butter.
Sometimes I remove some of the oil off the top before I mix the rest in, just to cut down on some of the oil intake in our diets, but that does tend to make it harder.
There are no partially hydrogenated oils in Adams .
They also have an organic variety of Adams now.
Preferences:
Of the two types, my favourite is definitely the Adams old fashioned peanut butter. It beats the Skippy peanut butter hands down for fresh peanut flavour. Overseas I was raised on old fashioned, mix when you open, peanut butter. I do remember thinking the Skippy was a real treat on holiday trips back to the states though. The primary reason was the ease of use, but it never compared to the instant fresh smell and texture of more natural peanut butters like Adams. For awhile I used just Skippy when I moved here, but after opening a jar of Adams and having my senses assailed by the richness of the smells and textures I had forgotten about, I switched back to Adams from Skippy.
It is harder to use because the texture is runnier and messier. When both Skippy and Adams are taken out of the refrigerator the Skippy is easier to use but I found a quick way around that by putting either one in the microwave with the lid off for a few seconds. One little warning though if you do that, make sure there is no foil along the rim of the jar. Even the smallest amount can make your microwave arc.
I buy both kinds for the different reasons mentioned above, but the one that tastes the richest and most natural is the Adams, so if I had to choose only one, it would be the Adams. Homemade would be best of all, but that isn't always an option and to me Adams peanut butter is the closest kind to homemade.
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18 Comments
Post a CommentAdams is natural which we all prefer but it has too much SALT.
I mix dark chocolate chips into peanut butter for a tasty dessert.
It works fine with all brands except Adams. Now I'm at a loss.
I switched to Adams about a year and a half ago, and I will never go back to Jiff of Skippy. My son, who is very picky, was happy with Jiff or Skippy until I had him try the Adams. He will no longer eat Jiff or Skippy. Yes it's a pain to have to mix the Adams, and wait for it to soften up after being in the fridge, but it's worth it. The taste is so much better, and you aren't eating all of the junk that is added to Jiff, Skippy, and the other brands. Just peanuts, and I believe a tiny bit of salt.
Enjoy it while you can. Since Smuckers absorbed the brand, it's disappeared off the shelves here. . .Tucson Arizona
Skippy now makes a "natural" peanut butter but it contains palm oil & sugar - WHY?? I am another member of the "pour off much of the peanut oil before mixing Adams" gang (ya mean food should taste GOOD??!)
the only peanutbutter i have found in the average store here in the n.w. that doesn't contain canola oil is adams. adams does now make a form of pb that says on it's label that it has rapeseed oil in it's ingrediants. rape seed is poison to humans and animals. canola oil has geonetically alterted rapeseed in it. if you want to do yourself a favor, drop canola from your diet. your body will thank you. skippy and jiff as well aS ALL THE GENERIC BRANDS I'VE SEEN HAVE SUGARS AND OTHER OILS ADDED IN. ORIGINAL ADAMS HAS PEANUTS AND THATS ALL.
Adam's is the only peanut butter I've eaten for over thirty years. Once you have eaten Adam's, Skippy and Jif taste way too sweet (not to mention hydrogenated oils...).
Jif, Skippy & Peter Pan. I loved those as a kid, but they make me sick now. The have a lot of added sugar (corn syrup...whatever) and it tastes like the peanut butter in a Reeses cup. Which is fine if you want to eat candy. And that artificial creamy spreadability. Blech!
Adams tastes like....peanuts. Just peanuts.
It's a great peanut butter and we consider it one of the major food groups in our house.
You are comparing 'apples and oranges'. To call Skippy or Jif peanut butter is compared to calling a Yugo a sports car. Anyone who knows how peanut butter is made should know that it is nothing more than grinding the peanuts to a texture that will pour through a spout as it is being grinded. Nothing else added. Nothing else needed. Plain and simple. Anyone who prefers the 'fake' peanut butter simply does not read the labels. Skippy and Jiff (and most other non-natural brands) have the peanut oil extracted, and vegetable oil installed, making it a 'fake' peanut butter. Of course, these companies can then sell the peanut oil, which helps with the bottom line! A clue for the un-informed: buy the natural kind, mix it up, and then put it in canning jars of a convenient size, and store it in the refrigerator, and there need not be any more mixing. If you need to soften it a little, just pop the jar in the microwave for a few seconds, and it will soften anb be easier to spread.
Adams Old Fashioned Creamy Peanet Butter makes absolutely the very best peanut butter cookies. I took some to a friend and he said mine were THE BEST. We coimpared recipes. Exactly the Same. I told him to get Adams and try it to see if that is the difference. It is the difference between good Cookies and the THE BEST. We don't mind stirring in the oil.
I like Jif or Peter Pan myself. I have never even heard of Adams Peanut Butter and I'm not sure we even have Skippy in the stores down here. Good review!