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I LOVE almond butter. It's worth the expense to me. But its mine, all mine. I serve peanut butter to everyone else and keep my precious almond butter. I like the marantha brand. It is better for you than peanut butter. Peanuts are "dirtier" from what I hear.
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Almond butter and honey on your favorite toasted bread is amazing, so good!
Every decent-sized health food store has a nut grinder tucked away somewhere. Mostly people use it to make fresh, unsalted peanut butter ....... but lots of people also make their own almond butter using the bulk almonds from the bin. It's a bit cheaper, but it's also slightly more gritty than commercial almond butter.
Almond butter and honey on your favorite toasted bread is amazing, so good!
Every decent-sized health food store has a nut grinder tucked away somewhere. Mostly people use it to make fresh, unsalted peanut butter ....... but lots of people also make their own almond butter using the bulk almonds from the bin. It's a bit cheaper, but it's also slightly more gritty than commercial almond butter.
The price is the price because almonds aren't that easy to grow and they take a lot of water.
"...agriculture uses 80% of the water in California but accounts for less than 2% of the economy. So how much water does almond production alone use? More water is used in almond production than is used by all the residents and businesses of San Francisco and Los Angeles combined."
The gourmet chain The Fresh Market has grinder machines in their stores. Push a button and the machine will grind as little or as much as you want--almond butter or peanut butter. The best part is knowing there are no preservatives or anything like that added to it because the only thing in the hoppers are cracked-up nuts. The almond butter that I get is 8.99/lb., while the peanut butter is only 4.99/lb, but the almond butter is still the better seller. I love it when you get it still warm from the machine.
Hmm...someone enlighten me as I honestly don't know anything about this:
do I have to have a special grinder to grind almonds or any nuts?
I have a Ninja chopper at home. Would this suffice?
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on the price.
