PB&J's

[cycloner29]

Unless you are big fan of peanut butter. Even Peanut Butter whiskey is good. What's a scotcharoo without peanut butter in the chocolate? Peanut Butter on toast is great in the morning. Peanut Butter Captain Crunch is my go to cereal in the morning.

Bigger question is why are you eating PB&J for lunch? Another poll question should be what flavor jelly is the standard on PB&J?

 

[isutrevman]

It all depends on how long it will be before you eat it. If I'm making it to eat right away, I put PB on one slice, and J on the other. If I'm packing a lunch to eat later, I PB both slices and J in the middle. The PB helps seal the bread so the J doesn't make it as soggy. Same reason you don't mayo directly onto the bread if you wont be eating right away. Mayo between slices of meat and cheese.

 

[cycloner29]

I was genuinely unaware that there was any other way to do this than this

I'm a knife licker.

 

[Trigger]

Toast with PB&J is the best possible answer. I love that Europe has little toast shops where you can get whatever you want.

To be absolutely technical, you have 2 pieces of toast. You spread the PB on both. By the time you are done putting the PB on the the 2nd piece, the PB on the 1st piece has reached a melty state. You now introduce the jelly and carefully mix it together with the PB. Then repeat on the 2nd piece of toast. Slap together to make a delicious warm PB&J sandwich.

 

[JM4CY]

I'm a knife licker.

And a mouth breather

 

[JM4CY]

I like to lick the knife before I put it in the jam to mark my territory. Its better to do this than pee on eveything.

Bannable

 

[Cyinthenorth]

PB on both, but then at the same time, I am a PB Fanatic

 

[VeloClone]

I started putting PB on both slices of bread when I started taking PB and whatever sandwiches for my second lunch (on the bus ride before an evening game or meet in junior high and high school). If you don't protect that bread it can get pretty soggy from the jelly, pickles or whatever else you are having with your PB in the sandwich.

 

[Ozclone]

What kind of weirdo puts PB on both and J in the middle? That would be hard to even J on it, it wouldn't spread without mixing into the PB?

The kind that has designed in a moisture barrier between the jelly and the bread on both sides to prevent the bread from getting soggy. Fortunately, this is also the kind that is able to figure out how to spread jelly on PB so it works out.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Yeah, but you dont have to worry about PB getting in the J. Saves a knife.

I never understood why this is a thing. I only eat jam/jelly on a PBJ. What else are you using the jam for that wouldn’t also be delicious with a little PB on it?

 

[CycloneSarah]

While I agree with this, my wife takes it a step further - she uses two separate knives; one for the peanut butter and the other for the jelly. I think it's a waste of a clean knife, but that's not the hill I'm going to choose to die on.

Is she close to someone with a peanut allergy? When my youngest sister was born with peanut and nut allergies we had to switch to putting jelly on first, then PB (or use two knives) so we didn't contaminate the jelly.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

So, maybe I'm the only one...

PB on one slice, butter on the other. Brown sugar sprinkled over the PB. The butter is to replace the moisture that the jelly provides in a PB&J. Otherwise, you would choke on the PB&BS.

 

[Rabbuk]

Toast with PB&J is the best possible answer. I love that Europe has little toast shops where you can get whatever you want.

My uncle is a general manager of a bar in chicago that does toast and whiskey as their specialities called slightly toasted

 

[Angie]

Another poll question should be what flavor jelly is the standard on PB&J?

Strawberry preserves - so not actually jelly at all!

 

[BirdOfWar]

PB on one just one piece of bread is perfectly fine if you are eating that sandwich right away. If you are making the sandwich to eat at a later time you need to PB both pieces so the jelly doesn't soak through.

 

[Angie]

What kind of jelly is everyone using that it soaks through the bread? Is it 75% water?

Preserves don't soak through, unless you're eating it two days later.

 

[Cyforce]

Peanut butter one side.
Wipe knife on other slice.
Jelly scooped out onto PB w/ knife.
Spread jelly over PB

 

[VeloClone]

Unless you are big fan of peanut butter. Even Peanut Butter whiskey is good. What's a scotcharoo without peanut butter in the chocolate? Peanut Butter on toast is great in the morning. Peanut Butter Captain Crunch is my go to cereal in the morning.

Bigger question is why are you eating PB&J for lunch? Another poll question should be what flavor jelly is the standard on PB&J?

The standard is grape. That is what the daughter eats. The son eats my wife's homemade rhubarb jelly just like I do. It's made with a box of raspberry jello so it really is a raspberry/rhubarb flavor. If there is none of that available I prefer strawberry.

 

[VeloClone]

What kind of jelly is everyone using that it soaks through the bread? Is it 75% water?

Preserves don't soak through, unless you're eating it two days later.

When I would have to make a sandwich at oh-dark-thirty to catch the morning bus and would be eating the sandwich in the evening on my way to a game it would definitely be soggy enough to not be as good if I didn't double seal the bread.

 

[BirdOfWar]

What kind of jelly is everyone using that it soaks through the bread? Is it 75% water?

Preserves don't soak through, unless you're eating it two days later.

Welch's Super Runny Grapy Jelly of course. I would say that I rarely eat PB&J sandwiches, but I just remember that scenario from being younger and packing a lunch for something and the jelly had soaked through. Maybe all the jelly technology of the past 20 years has improved this problem.