5 Unusual Uses For Peanut Butter

Peanut butter is great in sandwiches, baked into cookies, or just spread onto crackers, but have you ever given any thought to using peanut butter in other ways? We all know it's good for getting gum out of your hair, but there are other uses for peanut butter around the house that you may not know about.

The good thing about peanuts is that they naturally contain oils -- that's what makes peanut butter perfect for removing all kinds of sticky things. But peanut butter also works to lure pesky pests out of hiding, take off price tags, and more. Learn all the unusual ways to utilize peanut butter below!

(Just one tip: for all these methods, you'll want to use creamy peanut butter -- not chunky!)

See also:

• Peanut Butter Taste Test
• Recipes Using Peanut Butter

Do you have any unique uses for peanut butter? Leave us a comment below!

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Comments

[Merv Schwartz]

09:44 AM on 03/13/2012

Unless, I missed something there were basically two extra uses for peanut butter. One it to dissolve glue/paste and the other is bait for a mouse trap.

[tktuttle]

02:52 PM on 03/05/2012

"Spread the effected area with a spoonful of peanut butter..."

That's AFFECTED. Second time today I've seen this mistake in an online news article.

[DennisTheMenance]

02:03 PM on 03/05/2012

Well, I don;t know, We have PB Sex alot
Pack it in her and Lick it out
Lay it on The Guy's Pinis and Lick it off!
add some Whipped Cream or Marshmellow Fluff?
mmmmmmmmmmmmm Good for your Inards!
and her's too!
Cosmo used to run articles about the Better Fun Uses for PB.. alot of Good ideas to spice up your Sex Life..

;-)

[rosasturtles1]

01:50 PM on 03/05/2012

great ideas

[TheAnitQuasar]

01:31 PM on 03/05/2012

It's a wonder that we have never seen peanut butter flavored chewing gum.

[Betty McLendon]

12:46 PM on 03/05/2012

Lard/crisco also works great for getting gum out of hair

[rosasturtles1]

01:42 PM on 03/05/2012

as does olive oil..can also use it as a hair treatment..

[chi-town dp]

12:42 PM on 03/05/2012

Peanut butter is great at getting rid of hiccups. I once had hiccups that would not go away. It was to the point I could not go to sleep. I tried everything and went as far as trying to puke. I finally read somewhere eating peanut butter would do the trick. Wow! I was so relieved.

[beanbrain]

12:36 PM on 03/05/2012

with the peanut butter, you don't need to use butter either!!!

[rosasturtles1]

01:42 PM on 03/05/2012

how is that may i ask?

[beanbrain]

12:35 PM on 03/05/2012

peanut butter added to oatmeal makes it more palatable, and you don't need to use sugar!! i love it that way....

[sudey2]

12:27 PM on 03/05/2012

One of my few memories of my Dad (who we lost to cancer when he was 40 and I was 7) was him using peanut butter on the blades of his walk behind, push lawn mower! I guess it kept the rust away and the blades sharper, but the smell of peanut butter reminds me of my dad...and maybe that is why it is great comfort food.

[TheAnitQuasar]

01:30 PM on 03/05/2012

Do you still use peanut butter on the blades?

[sudey2]

01:46 PM on 03/05/2012

I don't even use the lawn mower (slowww sweet smile)

[reste0123]

12:06 PM on 03/05/2012

How about this? Was at a party at the Oak Room in NYC. They served mini bugers (sliders) with a very thin coating of Peanut Butter over the top of the burger...OMG...Was amazing. Now when in the mood i make burgers with that slight coating of creamy peanut butter on it...Gotta try it..

[Duane Meek]

11:33 AM on 03/05/2012

Having worked in the business of carpet and upholstery cleaning, we did use peanut butter for things like gum. But, if you have gum on something small enough to put in the freezer, do this first. Once the gum is frozen, most of it will scrape right off. Then use the peanut butter to get out any gum residue. In cleaning, there are 2 types of solvents. VDS is volatile dring solvent (meaning fast evaporation and usually petroleum based products). The second is NVDS or non-volatile dry solvents which do not evaporate and will penetrate deeper into the stain or substance. You can go back and forth between VDS and NVDS on oil or gum based stains and then if the material is washable, a final cleaning with a soap and water solution.

[blarb]

11:07 AM on 03/05/2012

You can also use it to eat!

[rosasturtles1]

01:43 PM on 03/05/2012

funny.

[shastaman]

11:50 PM on 03/11/2012

My friend likes to have his dog lick peanut butter off his man parts

[FuquayV]

11:01 AM on 03/05/2012

I suppose gum can accidentally get in a person's hair ; this has to be one of the rarest forms of stupidity though. I think instead of wasting peanut butter, considering the rising cost of food, people should keep the gum in their mouth or throw it away. Plain and simple huh?

[gdzilla2]

10:51 AM on 03/05/2012

When we lived in the country we occasionally had mouse problems in the fall. Peanut butter on the trap worked really well but tying bacon to the bait area worked better. Just take a small piece of bacon and wrap it around the trigger thingie and then wrap sewing threat around it tightly. Hated using kill traps but not about to live trap a mouse, take it out and release only to have it come in again. They are nasty creatures when they invade a home.

[beanbrain]

12:38 PM on 03/05/2012

you'd be surprised to know that a pecan half works just as well!!!!