Homemade Peanut Butter

Today I made homemade peanut butter! It was very easy. 

I bought some peanuts (two 16-oz dry-roasted containers). They were $2.50/apiece.

I put one container at a time in my little food processor. I processed until smooth (takes about 5 minutes total, although I stopped after every minute or so and gave the small processor a several-minute rest). 

I have sensitive ears so I used ear protection as I processed (in case you're wondering what the ear protection was for!).

You can see the consistency here, very smooth.

Here is the final product! I put it in the fridge to slow the separation and to help it keep longer. I can't wait to try it!

I've had "natural" peanut butter before but always bought it from the store. Hopefully I can find organic peanuts that are cheap for future batches. This was very easy to make...the cleanup is the worst part, but that's because we don't have a dishwasher. Well, I guess we do: me! LoL