There’s never any extra room at the top of the jar, so no matter how carefully you stir, you’ll end up with peanut oil all over outside of the jar – meaning there’ll be less to mix with the actual ‘butter’. So when you get to the bottom of the jar, you’ll end up looking like my pet Labrador did when we decided to give him a spoonful when we were kids. Not to mention that paper towels never seem adequate for sopping up the overflow.

Well, it only took me a decade to finally realize there is a better way. With one simple trick, you can have a virtually spill-free experience preparing a fresh jar of peanut butter for your bread.

Store the jar upside down.   By doing this, the oil ends up at the *bottom* of the jar, making the process of mixing it all up a mess-free endeavor. Now if only I could find a chocolate bar hard enough to quit breaking in half during the stirring process…

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