Battle of the Natural Peanut Butter

There is a battle brewing for who makes the best Natural Peanut Butter.  Let me simply start this off by saying Jiff, Skippy, Great Value, Planters and whoever else makes a non stir natural peanut butter are all out of the running.  If you don't have to stir in the oil you're out.  The rest of my list of competitors comes down to two.  This may disappoint some of you, some may disagree that the all natural peanut butter dominates the other stuff, know that this is an opinion piece, it is my piece and it is my opinion.  Let me also add that the PB2 stuff that is a powder and you do have to stir in water, that does not qualify.  It is foul and has no business being on the shelves at the local grocery store.  That said there are two All Natural Peanut Butters that qualify in this particular battle.  The first is Adams All Natural Crunchy.  Second is Smucker's All Natural Crunchy.  I should have noted that this battle is between the crunchy varieties only. 

Adams has been my go to, love the stuff.  There is just something about digging into that cold peanut butter that is so thick and delicious.  Love it.  Yes, I said cold.  You stir it and refrigerate it.  If you want to make a special little treat out of it get a spoonful and put a bit of honey on top.  So dang good. 

Smucker's is a new comer in the All Natural Peanut Butter arena.  I saw it on the shelf and decided I needed to give it a try and see how it stacked up against the Adams.  Well, it has some cold, thick deliciousness as well.  I have certainly been impressed and enjoy the product.  I don't know that for me it surpasses the Adams but it is a worthy competitor. 

I give the upper hand to the Adams for ease of use as well.  The big 32 oz. jar seems to be a lot easier to stir in the oil then the smaller sized Smucker's.  It seemed to take forever to stir the Smucker's and don't know that I got it mixed quite as well as the Adams.  Regardless, both are delicious and blow away the other peanut butters out there.  I did have a thought that I could purchase some peanuts and try my hand at making up my own all natural peanut butter.  The fact that the ingredients list on both products is pretty much just peanuts and salt, I think I could handle making my own.  I'm sure that's what this Adam guy did and since he is the champ of All Natural Peanut Butter I'd say it's worked out pretty well for him. 

That's all I've got to say about All Natural Peanut Butter at this time.