If you like peanut butter you might want to try making your own. This is how I have been making peanut butter for years. Sometimes I make it in a food processor but it never comes out as smooth, so I like it best in the blender. Caution, this method might put you off store bought peanut butter.

IF YOU TRY THIS METHOD BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN MIXING THE PEANUTS IN THE RUNNING BLENDER (I DO IT WITH A SPOON AND I KNOW WHERE THE BLADES ARE SO I CAN AVOID HITTING THE BLADES WITH THE SPOON) IT IS NEVER NEEDED TO PUT THE ENTIRE SPOON INTO THE BLENDER OR EVER GO SO DEEP AS TO TOUCH THE BLADES. ONLY AGITATE THE TOP-UPPER MIDDLE OF THE PEANUT BUTTER UNTIL IT BLENDS ON ITS OWN.

1. select peanuts. I like the unsalted kind since one can always add salt to taste later but salted peanuts makes for too salty peanut butter.

2. dump in blender (only fill about half way or it will never blend properly)

blend, at first the nuts will get chopped and moved by the blades easily, but they will need some help from you about midway through as they start to clump together.

3. Listen to the sounds the blender is making, it will tell you if it is bogging down or if an air bubble is stuck around the blades and its not blending.

4. burp, might take 3 of 4 burps (shake the blender jar) about 3/4 of the way through before it will blend the peanut butter all on its own.
5.Add anything else you want to your peanut butter now, I use liquid stevia, and sometimes honey or a sprinkle of salt.

6. pour into a container, watch for drips (I usually do this perfectly but decided to check the camera while pouring and spilled a little)

7. Repeat (like I do to fill the jar +1 for up cycling old Smuckers jar) and refrigerate and give it a day to rest. The peanut butter will be very warm and runny so put it in the fridge for a day to solidify. Unless you want to drizzle it on some ice cream or something, which would be delish. Then enjoy your perfect peanut butter.

In this video I am using an Oster classic 17 speed 450 watt blender.

At time mark 10:44 the full jar is placed in the fridge next to a nearly empty jar of the same kind. So yes we do this all the time.

I've been hearing from comments that this may damage your blender. IT MAY. I don't know? Our little Oster gets pretty warm and the peanut butter is warm that's why we put it in the fridge and to help it keep longer but we have yet to kill a blender and we make pb like this at least once a month.