Quote Originally Posted by vantranist
Yes SWIM reads everywhere that you must use "natural" peanut butter when cooking with cannabis. The theory being it has more fat and will extract the cannabaniods better.

Well does anyone actually know the difference between natural peanut butter and "Skippy" or "jiffs" "artificial peanut butter? If you did you would know that it makes no difference weather you use "natural" peanut butter or the normal kind most of us are used too.

The only difference between natural peanut butter and the "artificial" peanut butter is natural peanut butter lacks trans fat, while "artificial" peanut butter has added trans fat too it. If you don't add the trans fat to the peanut butter eventussauly the oil will separate from the peanut butter and collect at the top. With the added trans fat the natural fats will never separate from the peanut butter.

At least this is how i was told it was made by a creditable source. So it appears too me unnatural peanut butter should be better if anything too use, because it has both the natural fats and trans fats added too it, its simply the same + more.

does anyone have any reason not to believe this?

I can only give you this info. I tried making Firecrackers with skippy and it did not work. I ade it with Nutella and again wih natural peanut butter and it worked wonders.