Peanut Butter

We make peanut butter ourselves. This is the current process that seems to work best:

• Roast one tray of peanuts for about 60 minutes at 150°C (top and bottom heat) in the oven. Make sure to utilize solar power!
• Let the peanuts cool down a bit
• Put them into the manual food processor
• Process them for about 20 minutes
• Add some rapeseed oil
• Process them for another 10 minutes
• Done!

This is a great example of work we do in Kanthaus that technically saves us money, but only if we don't value our time that much. The peanuts cost 2€/kg, but factoring in 15€/h, the peanut butter costs about 20€/kg. With a bigger / better / electrical food processor, the time necessary could be greatly reduced, but already it has the advantage of highlighting the value and speciallness of peanut butter.