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    Who likes peanut butter!

    Like most jobs, mine can get tedious and, yes, a bit boring.
    What to do? What to do?

    Get creative. Have some fun!

    My job entails much crushing and pulverizing of ore samples for x-Ray fluorescence assay. Hence, my own, personal, pulverizer!

    A little while ago, I was watching my pulverizer pulverise (akin to watching paint dry), and thought, "you know, they pulverize peanuts to make peanut butter.", and I was off!

    I bought a jar of dry roasted nuts, took them to work on a weekend, and got down to business.
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    The pulverizer-a BICO vibrating unit that uses a steel bowl with steel rings and puck.
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    Approximately 100g of nuts loaded.
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    After about 40 seconds of intense vibration at about 900 rpm, 81gr of peanutty goodness!

    So, pulverizer-$8200.00, steel bowl & rings-$2022.00, peanuts-$1.00 (dollar store!) = $1.56/gr, or approximately $638.00/lb. to recoup initial cost.

    I'll begin taking orders next week.

    I'll add honey for 10¢.
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    My family loves peanut butter. I'll take 2 jars.

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    Can you do extra chunky?

    In grad school, I was always tempted to use the lyophilizer to freeze dry some snacks. If it wasn't constantly used for stuff that could kill you (quickly or slow and painfully), I probably would have done it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FuzzyB View Post
    Can you do extra chunky?
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    You bet. During experimentation, I tried with just the puck, no rings. In about 1 1/2 minutes I got these nice, chunky, peanut balls.

    Heck, dipped in chocolate, I'd have a high end candy!
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    I really like peanut butter and really like your idea for killing some time.

    It puts me in mmd of my Air Force days which involved large quantities of liquid nitrogen poured into highly amusing places. Hard to believe they trusted us with expensive and secret stuff. Good times.

    I'll be passing through Tennessee mid-August so I can pick my order up then and save you the hassle of shipping.

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    I only like creamy....how smooth can you get it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raza View Post
    I only like creamy....how smooth can you get it?
    Smoother than goose poop on a wet day.
    Just add a few seconds grind time.
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    What a superb post. How does it taste?

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    I adore chunky peanut butter. Packed with protein, filling, and not too unhealthy.

    I used to order it from myprotein by the kilo - it's just crushed nuts with shells on - but I prefer it with 1% of salt and sugar added.


    Quote Originally Posted by whatmeworry View Post
    What a superb post. How does it taste?
    Was just about to say what an excellent thread!
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    Quote Originally Posted by geoffbot View Post
    I adore chunky peanut butter. Packed with protein, filling, and not too unhealthy.

    I used to order it from myprotein by the kilo - it's just crushed nuts with shells on - but I prefer it with 1% of salt and sugar added.




    Was just about to say what an excellent thread!
    Chunky peanut butter is just peanut butter they didn't finish making.

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