Teddie All Natural Peanut Butter, Smooth, 26 Oz

I gave this product 5 stars because the taste and consistency are top notch. The top layer of oil can easily be stirred into the rest of the peanut butter and then placed in the refrigerator to discourage it from separating again. Many competitors include such a thick layer of oil, it’s impossible to fully stir in, but you won’t have that problem here. My one gripe involves the product’s label, which reads, “Supporting People with Special Abilities.” This denotes that Teddie partners with the charity Best Buddies to employ members of the the intellectually and developmentally disabled communities. First, as a disabled person myself, I don’t appreciate the use of any euphemisms for the word “disabled.” As the popular hashtag says, just say the word. Referring to a disabled person as having “special abilities” is deeply disrespectful in any context and ignores the way society fails to fully accommodate or include us. Second, while it’s a good thing to employ disabled workers and encourage others to follow your example, it’s very exploitative to use those employees as an advertising tool and imply that hiring someone to do a job they’re competent to do (or buying a product made by disabled employees) is an act of charity. To sum up, great product, but Teddie needs to seriously reevaluate the way it uses its disabled employees as advertising tools. Speaking as a longtime (and now former) customer, I’ve bought the product because it’s of substantially higher quality than most competitors’ products. I can’t imagine a substantial percentage of either longtime or occasional Teddie customers are motivated to buy their products for any other reason, so I don’t know what value they feel including that offensive stamp on the label actually brings. In my opinion, it brings none.

This peanut butter allowed me to love peanut butter again! In short, it is the best peanut butter I have ever had, and, for me, nut butters are a staple food. After I has a bad run-in with some questionable peanut butter three years ago, I developed a physical revulsion to peanut butter which was very difficult to overcome. I spent years eating very expensive raw almond butter, because it tasted the least like peanut butter. After a year, peanut butter didn't make me sick anymore, but I just didn't like it. Then, I tried Teddie brand, simply because I was living in an Arctic village at the time, and it shipped for free. It was the Best. Peanut. Butter. Ever. It still is. Even my father, who doesn't like peanut butter very much, likes Teddie. It is all natural, the only ingredient is peanuts, and it has a much better flavor than any other natural peanut butter on the market (I have tried many. Trust me.) I am now spoiled by Teddie, and order all of my peanut butter from Amazon, since it is not sold in Michigan. Some people complain that it is runny, but they probably don't know how to properly handle natural peanut butter. This is what you do: Put the jar upside-down overnight. This will take the peanut oil and mix it into the rest of the product as it rises to the top (bottom). Then, mix it thoroughly with a long-handled spoon, being sure to take the firm lumps in the bottom and mix them into the rest of the product. When it is mixed, put it in the fridge. It won't go bad if you leave it out, but the refrigeration stops it from separating, and also gives it a firmer texture. Use and enjoy!

Great peanut butter, healthy and delicious. This is the only PB we buy. Thank you.

When Smuckers/Mrs. Adams/Laura Scudder peanut butter became much more expensive in the local supermarkets, I researched other peanut butter brands. There were unanimous raves about Teddie. I have never lived in the Northeast, so I was unaware of the brand. My first shipments were excellent. The peanut butter solids were denser than Smucker's, but my Grandpa Witmer stirring hook still was effective. The butter was stickier and a bit harder to spread than Smucker's, but the peanut flavor was excellent. It is perfect for cookies and asian noodle dishes. My most recent shipment has been a royal pain to blend, though. The peanut solids are almost bricklike, and the stirring hook can't cut through them. It spins the entire mass of solids like an impenetrable block. Even with Smucker's PB, I needed to finish the blending process with a few strokes from a butter/table knife, which is OK. The Teddie peanut butter required hard churning of the solids with my knife to try to break them up - it is a serious forearm workout! After the cumbersome blending process is complete, the top half of the jar is fairly easy to use. If you store the jar in the refrigerator like I do to avoid oil separation, the bottom half of the contents again becomes a dense glob that doesn't spread at all. A solution is to keep the peanut butter out at room temperature, but then the remaining butter becomes too liquid - it oozes out of a peanut butter sandwich and makes a mess. The flavor of the Teddie is excellent - it's stickier than other brands, and perhaps a bit saltier. I only wish there were an easier way to blend it, and a happy medium between refrigerated peanut butter monolith and room temperature runniness!