10. Lube it up: Peanut butter is an excellent lubricator. If your lawnmower blades are getting a little tight and rusty – smear on some of the spread and voila – perfect lubrication. This hint is particularly useful because almost every time I need lube, I don’t have any around – but I always have a jar of peanut butter in the cupboard. It can be used for virtually all your lubrication needs.
9. Animal medicine: If you own a cat or a dog, you will know how hard it can be to get them to take their medication – especially when it is in pill form. Fortunately cats and dogs love peanut butter – so next time you have to give them some medication, mix it up with a spoonful and feed it to them. No more struggling with the animal as you hold its mouth open and try to force feed it a bitter pill.
8. Buttwer replacement: Most recipes that use butter can be cooked with peanut butter instead. In cookies and cakes this can make a wonderful and subtle taste difference. Next time you are making fudge brownies, try using peanut butter instead – it will be like eating a huge Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. You can also stir peanut butter into a sauce instead of butter to give it a nutty finish.
7. Mousetrap bait: Mice are not particularly fond of cheese – so it is strange that it is the first food people go for when they are baiting their mousetraps. What most people don’t know is that mice prefer peanut butter – how this has been proven I do not know, but the fact that peanut butter is so much cheaper than cheese, makes this tip a very handy and frugal one.
6. Price tag removal: Despite the major advances in science in recent years, no one seems to have managed to invent a label that can be removed easily without leaving any glue behind. Fortunately, we have peanut butter. Rub some of the tasty spread on the label glue and rub with a cloth – it works brilliantly.
5. De-fish the house: If you have ever fried fish, you will know that it leaves behind a rather unpleasant fishy smell in the house. To help eradicate the smell, take a tablespoon of peanut butter after you have finished frying the fish, drop it in the frying pan and fry it off for a minute or two. The smell of peanut butter is the house is much more enjoyable than stale fish and oil.
4. Leather cleaner: Peanut butter is an excellent cleaner for leather furniture. Just rub a small amount on and work it in in a circular motion. Remove with a buffing cloth and there you have it! The caveat to this tip is peanut-butter smelling furniture. To avoid that you might want to mix a little perfume oil in it – but not too much.
3. Peanut butter cookies: This one doesn’t seem quite so weird, but it is included because these cookies use peanut butter as the main ingredient – there is no flour at all. The cookies are a mix of peanut butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla. You can even throw in a handful of chocolate chips if you wish. The resulting cookies are amazingly tasty and it only takes about 20 minutes from start to finish. You can read the full recipe here, which is also the source of the image above. The site is my sister’s, so check out the other articles too!
2. Gum remover: While it doesn’t happen quite so often to us adults, children often end up with gum in their hair. This would normally be followed up by a lot of tugging and pulling with a comb to remove it, and the eventual chopping of the locks. But what most people don’t realize, is that peanut butter is a perfect “gum remover” – not only will it remove gum from hair, but it will remove it from carpet and any other object that is tainted with the chewy stuff. Just rub some peanut butter into the gum and you can wipe the whole mess off with a cloth.
1. Shave with it: Believe it or not, peanut butter makes a great shaving gel. Just apply it like you would apply the gel, and shave as normal. It works just as well and anyone that has bought a container of shaving gel will know, it is a hell of a lot cheaper. The end result is a very smooth shave and, as a bonus, the oils in the peanut butter are very good for your skin, so you don’t need to spend even more money on moisturizer for your legs or face.
any lubrication needs?
lmao buttwer?
that would be kinda gross for that kind of lube
No way I’m trying it as shaving cream, and also, the all-round lubricant seems rather… strange:-p
Nowadays, using peanut butter is a method of dying from Salmonella. Don’t know that I would endorse that one.
“all my lube needs”…..my head just exploded
I don’t buy the PB vs. cheese bit. I had a recent invasion of field mice thanks to a cold snap in South FL and the traps baited with peanut butter only haven’t yielded a thing, but when I used the PB to hold the cheese on the trap I got a bunch of them. Sometimes the little vermine succeed in stealing the cheese (don’t ask me how) and leaving the PB untouched.
I actually used that to get gum out of my hair one time. I was using Nicorette to quit smoking (which did allow me to quit for good) and I fell asleep with it in my mouth. Unlike regular gum, you are suppose to let the wad rest between your gum and cheek and only to chew when you want a hit of nicotine. So forgetting about it being there wasn’t hard to do. I woke up with it firmly entrenched in my hair. After several attempts to pull it out it looked as though I would have to cut it out, then shave my head to match. in desperation I went online and found the peanut butter trick. It works like a charm!
Will it work on my bikini area?
Grog, the secret is to put the PB on a cotton ball.
Rubbing alcohol works much better for removing glue residue from price tags and the like.
Grog – mice definitely prefer peanut butter to cheese in my experience – I had a mice in an old student place some years back and tried varying cheese, fruit, chocolate and peanut butter. Peanut butter was the clear winner.
What you have to be careful of though is the mechanism of a mouse trap. The problem is that most PB is pretty much liquid and mouse traps – the old Tom & Jerry style ones – need solid bait.
Recently I accidentally brought a mouse into my home in a bag that had been sat in someone’s garage for several months. I baited a trap with a fine peanut butter.The cheeky mouse happily came along two nights in a row and licked up all the peanut butter without triggering the trap. I then smeared PB on a corn kernel and impaled that on the trap so that even if the mouse was very light it would have to pull the bait and therefore trigger the trap.
Within a couple of hours I’d got a result.
We just made the peanutbutter cookies per the recipe. Upon completion, we discovered that in New Zealand (where the recipe is from) they use centigrade instead of farenheit.
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LOL Paul, my wife discovered the same thing, but as usual she salvaged things and the cookies were pretty good.
Helllooooo! I’ve heard a use for peanut butter that was NOT mentioned here:
Old women put it between their legs so their puppy dogs will eat it! :-O
Sounds gross- but I’ve heard about this story many times- There’s gotta be some pups out there doin’ it!!
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I’m assuming that is not crunchy peanut butter for lube?
Hmmm…universal lubricant….and much tastier than that Kentucky Jelly….
heehee, can you explain that to me again. I’m really not understanding what I think I’m understanding???
heehee, do they just woof it down???
LOL….I would hope old ladies don’t apply the crunchy peanut butter on their poonannies!
Evidently Bella…women spread a little peanut butter on their cooters- and evidently dogs love peanut butter- and it sticks to their tongues so they lick-a-lot-a-p….. You get the picture…heeheehee….
Funny but sick at the same time!
I’ve been doing the shaving thing for quite a while, the only problem is the crunchy parts get stuck between the blades.
Poor puppies, heehee. Wrinkled old beaver with peanut butter on it for breakfast. Ewwwwwwwww
In regards to mouse traps, the sticky glue traps can lose their stickiness when you use peanut butter.
Hi everyone. I just found your comments about the peanut butter cookies and I just have to say I am terribly sorry!! We are going to internationalise the recipes soon (somehow – probably have a conversion table on the page) I hope you try the cookies again because they are just delicious!! Thanks Sarah 🙂
My god!? Old women do that! Seriously even by my standards thats pretty low.