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I tend to divide kitchen appliances into three tiers in my head. There's the top tier, the ones you can't live without, that every kitchen should have (toaster oven, crock pot and blender leap to mind). Then comes the second tier, the ones that aren't vital, but do make cooking easier and more fun (stand mixer, waffle iron and indoor grill, for instance). Then there are the ones that are rarely necessary, but are appealing nonetheless. In this category, I group things like ice cream makers, bread machines and fondue pots. I discovered another third tier appliance recently, and while it's not one that I think I'd use much, I can see how it would be fun and useful (provided you're a fan of nut butters). That's right, I'm speaking of the Peanut Butter Machine. It has a blessedly small foot print and whips up freshly ground nut butter at the flick of a switch. I can see how this would be great if you had access to large amounts of nuts or you had health concerns that precluded you from ingesting manufactured peanut, almond or cashew butter.
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10-16-2008 @5:28PM Monika said... Funny - I have a bread machine and fondue pot, want an ice cream maker, and have no big urge for a waffle maker or indoor grill. :) Oh yeah, and I don't have a crock pot -- I gave mine away! Funny how we all rank things differently.
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10-16-2008 @5:58PM Stefani Pollack said... I was just looking all over for an item like this. We've been making lots of nut butter recently. I may need to get this! Thanks for posting about it!
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10-16-2008 @7:20PM manraysky said... All you need to make nut butters is a good food processor. There's no reason to buy a specialized machine.
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10-17-2008 @10:26PM ger said... i had a similar gadget maybe 20 years ago? it was made by Salton, i believe. i actually used it a lot; not just peanut butter, but cashews, pistachios, mixtures of nuts, etc. the thing is not like a blender, it's a burr grinder, where the nuts are actually ground between two toothed wheels, so the product is very smooth. unfortunately, the grinders wore out fairly quickly and when the thing went off the market, they were no longer available. I've been wishing they would reappear ever since. of course, back then it cost $10.
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