2 Tablespoons of Peanut Butter = How Many Butter Knives?

I always wondered how many butter knives it takes to equal 2 tablespoons of peanut butter?  

There honestly is no way to answer this. At all.

& sometimes even two tablespoons aren't actually equal to a serving. PB's one food that begs for a food scale.

Yeah, use a scale for peanut butter, it's very very easy to over/underestimate.

yep, and because PB is usually 550 - 600 calories per 100g that means if you overestimate by just 5 g then its 25-30 calories higher than you accounted for.

If you dont own/want to buy a food scale, at least use a measuring spoon set to measure it out.

Get a tablespoon (a real one for cooking and measuring not the kind people eat out of) and fill it with peanut butter.  Then use the peanut butter in the spoon to put on your bread.  Personally I was surprised that I usually only use half a tablespoon per slice. 

 

I wouldn't weight it personally.  I weigh a lot of things, but that sounds like a pain in the butt to me.

One tablespoon equals one normal-sized knifeful. (I measured out a tablespoon and took a knifeful and compared them and they were close enough to the same...) Remember, if you go back for more, that's a second tablespoon!

I would just take a butter knife full and scrape off the peanut butter into a tablespoon.  It would be more accurate.

Half of a Jiff To Go container is exactly 2 tablespoons.
That is a lot more peanut butter than I thought it would be.

There are 4 tablespoons in a Jiff To Go container.

http://www.amazon.com/Jif-Peanut-Butter-6-Cou nt-Packages/dp/B000KOUKCY/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8& amp;s=grocery&qid=1222239239&sr=8-9

Here is a lonk to the Jif website.

http://www.jif.com/products/details.asp?prodI D=572

I find the easiest way to measure things like peanut butter is to weight the entire jar, use the peanut butter, then weigh the entire jar again and figure out the different. Its a lot less hassly than getting a tablespoon, then scraping it off the tablespoon onto a knife, or trying to weigh a tablespoon full!

Thanks, holsfisher.