Everyone loves learning new, time-saving tricks, but the Food Network’s ‘brilliant peanut butter hack’ is getting roasted for turning an easy meal into a three-hour long chore.
The Food Network recently shared a Facebook video of blogger Bev Weidner, 41, demonstrating how viewers can make ‘peanut butter slices’ so they don’t end up tearing their bread while making a sandwich.
‘There’s this whole convenience thing with sandwiches. Little slices of meat. Slices of cheese. Pickle slices. Why aren’t there peanut butter slices?’ she asks in the clip, which has prompted thousands of Facebook users to mercilessly make fun of the time-consuming hack.
Time saver? The Food Network recently shared a Facebook video of blogger Bev Weidner demonstrating how viewers can make ‘peanut butter slices’
Secret struggle? The 41-year-old explained that her hack will help you avoid tearing the bread while making peanut butter sandwiches
In the video, she demonstrates how she spreads ‘globbies’ of peanut butter across some parchment paper and covers it with another layer of parchment paper before flattening it out with a rolling pin.
After freezing it over night, she uses shears to cut the frozen peanut butter into sandwich-sized squares, placing parchment paper between each slice so they don’t stick together.
‘Just throw them back into the freezer and you have a stack of peanut butter and you just slap it on,’ she says. ‘It’s ready for you, and it’s not going to rip your bread.’
Bev goes on to show viewers how she uses the slices to make a peanut butter sandwich, topping the beloved lunchtime meal with honey and chocolate sprinkles.
Step one: In the video, she demonstrates how she spreads ‘globbies’ of peanut butter across some parchment paper
Next: After covering the peanut butter blobs with parchment paper, she flattens it with a rolling pin
Worth it? Bev recommends freezing the peanut butter for three hours before using scissors to cut it into sandwich-sized slices
When posting the clip, the Food Network wrote: ‘Behold the brilliant peanut butter hack you never knew you needed!’
The video has been viewed more than 11 million times since it was posted on September 26, but many of the post’s 16,000 comments are from people who find the hack to be utterly ridiculous.
If you can’t spread PB without tearing the bread, you have no business being on the Food Network,’ Kiera Dee wrote, while Tabbatha Leaton Smith added: ‘She must be one of those people from infomercials who can’t pour milk and find themselves in an avalanche of Tupperware falling from their cabinets.’
‘Love this… since having kids I had to quit my job due to the amount of time I needed to spread peanut butter each day…maybe now I can go back to work part-time!’ Laura Burns wrote sarcastically.
Finished product: ‘Just throw them back into the freezer and you have a stack of peanut butter and you just slap it on,’ Bev says. ‘It’s ready for you, and it’s not going to rip your bread’
Do you need it? When posting the clip, the Food Network wrote: ‘Behold the brilliant peanut butter hack you never knew you needed!’
Ridicule: Although the clip has been viewed more than 11 million times, thousands of people took to the comments section of the post to make fun of the hack
Just a thought: ‘She must be one of those people from infomercials who can’t pour milk,’ Tabbatha Leaton Smith wrote
Poking fun: ‘Since having kids I had to quit my job due to the amount of time I needed to spread peanut butter each day,’ Laura Burns wrote sarcastically
Interesting: Dora Gonzalez Bloomer suggested an even easier ‘hack’ for people to try
Meanwhile, Dora Gonzalez Bloomer suggested an even easier ‘hack’ for people to try.
‘Freeze the whole jar of peanut butter. Then take it to the table saw and cut into slices. Peel of plastic rim and you’ll have all of it done at once,’ she joked.
Many people couldn’t get over the fact that this hack was created in response to her tearing her sandwich bread while making peanut butter sandwiches.
‘Even gluten free bread, that disintegrates when you look at it funny, will hold together with peanut butter. Perhaps one should not apply peanut butter like a serial killer,’ Jamie DiNote commented.
‘What did I just watch?’ Michelle Muggli asked. I add pb directly to the bread like a normal human, and I showed my kids how to do it so now they make their own sandwiches. Isn’t that the goal?’
Loving it: Jon Handel added: ‘The “recipe.” That cracks me up. Show someone making ice cubes next. Be sure to post the recipe’
Jokes on jokes: ‘Perhaps one should not apply peanut butter like a serial killer,’ Jamie DiNote commented
Questions: ‘What did I just watch?’ Michelle Muggli asked. I add pb directly to the bread like a normal human’
Not getting old: Austin Beber even poke fun at Bev for using a honey wand to spread honey on the peanut butter sandwiches when she was done
And Jon Handel added: ‘The “recipe.” That cracks me up. Show someone making ice cubes next. Be sure to post the recipe.;
A writer from the website Insider even tried the hack out for herself and reported that it did not work.
Bev recommends in her recipe to freeze the peanut butter for at least three hours, but when Sarah Schmalbruch pulled it out of the freezer, it wasn’t even close to being frozen.
She tried leaving it in the freezer for another two hours, but it still didn’t turn out like Bev’s frozen peanut butter slices.
‘The recipe proved a total fail for us,’ she wrote. T’he recipe never specifies what kind of peanut butter to use, so we just went for some standard Jif.
‘Maybe we were supposed to use a natural, less spreadable peanut butter, but we never would have known that since it wasn’t part of the recipe.’