— Mary Gerstein

I'm proud to say that yes, Mary, you can, however, it's going to look a little bit different than the nut butter that you might be used to eating that comes in the grocery store with added oils and such to it. But your Vitamix will do a good job, as will a food processor. You've gotta keep with it, stay with it. In other words, use your tamper a lot, stop open, scrape, et cetera, et cetera. That's why when making it in a food processor, the food processor just does all of the work for you. And when it is finished, whether it's in the Vitamix or in the, uh, food processor, I like to take it out and then blend it with my hands as though I were making either a snowball or I was getting ready to pitch the first game at Citizens Bank Park this Thursday when the season opener happens. But what happens when you do that is it's almost like kneading the nut butter and its texture is going to be because it doesn't have oil in it. I did add two tablespoons of maple syrup to help it along the way, and that seemed to do the trick. And when it's done, it tastes a little bit like, uh, a Buckeye candy, but you don't have to put the sweetener in. If you don't wanna use the maple syrup, you could use warm water. And that also works as just as well. But not to, uh, disregard the beauty of the Vitamix. I do wanna talk a minute about almond butter powder, and I also have a PB two powder. Uh, these are just, this is just blanched almonds, and it looks like this. And you can see it has a beau, it's almost like a flour, almost like a, an almond flour. And I can feel some of the, the, um, emulsion from the fats on my fingers. And all you do is add a little bit of water to it, and I have some water here. And, um, you're gonna stir, stir, stir. And then what'll happen is that you'll get a really nice consistency that resembles a nut butter that is very good for adding to salad dressings and other things. But you get the ticket here that you're gonna stir it for quite a while. It's gonna get to the thickness that you wanna have it, they're great to have on hand. Um, but let the Vitamix, uh, bring you great joy in, in making nut butters and know that there are, um, other options out there. And, um, to increase the nutrient value of this, I added some raw walnuts to it because I was, I'm always looking for a little Omega-3. And, uh, I keep it in the refrigerator, keep it out for about 10 minutes before I use it, and, um, it will work, uh, really, really well. So I hope that, uh, uh, do you have to soak the almonds? I don't soak the almonds because when you soak the almonds, it's going to change the texture of them. But maybe Vitamix has a good recipe for you. So, um, I wanna hear more about your peanut, your nut butter adventures on the Vitamix, because the Vitamix does not disappoint.