In working with some local food banks, I've somehow ended up with 36 gallon containers of stale peanut butter from 2009. Other than throwing it all away, what could be done with this?

Bear food? Pigs?

Is it suitable for peanut brittle??

It would make great hog bait, do you live in an area with hog hunters/trappers? If not, a local farmer or two may be interested as feed supplement for domestic hogs.

If stale, it is inconceivable that it would be edible, or even safe. Toss it.

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Yeah...I guess 10 years beyond usable date would probably preclude it for human consumption.

Send it to that guy on youtube that eats the really old MREs.

Take a gallon to a park and make a bunch of squirrels really happy.

Set up squirrel obstacle courses to get the PB reward. Video them, post to YT, profit?

Hours of fun! It never gets old!

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
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Yeah...I guess 10 years beyond usable date would probably preclude it for human consumption.

I should have specified human consumption. Of course, you could give it to somebody you hate ...

Bears love it.

Feed the hogs

You could bake a dozen peanut butter cookies for each SIGForum member.....

Hog or goat farmer would love it.

Someone beat me to the squirrels but birds love it, too. If you have pine cones, roll them in PB and then roll the PB laden pine cones in bird seed. Scatter them around your yard and you'd soon be the envy of Alfred Hitchcock (if he was still with us).

Even with that, ten gallons ought to be enough to last at least another ten years or so.

Drive every squirrel for 100 miles in any direction absolutely crazy. Be sure to post some video.

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Originally posted by TXJIM:
It would make great hog bait, do you live in an area with hog hunters/trappers? If not, a local farmer or two may be interested as feed supplement for domestic hogs.

Along those lines, a pest control guy could use in his live animal traps too.

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Originally posted by egregore:
If stale, it is inconceivable that it would be edible, or even safe. Toss it.

BS, I opened olive painted number ten cans of peanut butter from the Korean War back in 91 or92..we had to stir the oil back into the paste but we ate it. Uncle Sam knows a thing or two about PB n J!!!

Donate to Shep Smith?

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:

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Originally posted by egregore:
If stale, it is inconceivable that it would be edible, or even safe. Toss it.

BS, I opened olive painted number ten cans of peanut butter from the Korean War back in 91 or92..we had to stir the oil back into the paste but we ate it. Uncle Sam knows a thing or two about PB n J!!!

Agreed. I'm a peanut butter fiend, good stuff or the cheap stuff...I suppose it's possible that peanut butter would go bad in certain situations over decades...but I have yet to come across a bad jar even after sitting for years.

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:

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Originally posted by egregore:
If stale, it is inconceivable that it would be edible, or even safe. Toss it.

BS, I opened olive painted number ten cans of peanut butter from the Korean War back in 91 or92..we had to stir the oil back into the paste but we ate it. Uncle Sam knows a thing or two about PB n J!!!

My understanding (don't take my word for it) is that anything that has been properly canned (including pasteurization at the appropriate temperature) in a metal can or in a glass jar with a proper canning lid with a good seal is safe as long as the integrity of the container is maintained, no matter how long that is. Color, texture, and flavor may go downhill, but it won't actually hurt you.

I don't think normal grocery store peanut butter jars are actually canned. Not sure about whatever gallon containers the food bank has. Under normal storage and use times, it doesn't really need to be canned because it doesn't really have any water in it so nothing can really grow in it.