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Nostalgia PBM-200 Peanut Butter Machine

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I am a big fan of nostalgia electric products because of their retro and usually unusual design. I own many of the different models. I have to honestly say that many of the machines look really atrractive, but do not live up to what they claim. There are exceptions, but this peanut butter machine is not one of them. I was really excited when I saw that they had released this item, because I always buy natural (peanuts only) peanut butter and thought that it would be cool and maybe cheaper to make my own at home. First of all, the machine looks really cool, although it is smaller than I expected. But there are many problems. The booklet says that if the nuts you want to use are too big for the machine, you need to crush them first. I used regualer sized peanuts, and they were too big. This caused the machine to have to be physically held on the counter. When we crushed the peanuts, the peanut butter did come out slowly and in chunks (not like in the pictures). We used the smoothiest setting and the peanut butter was still chunky, it was kind of like small ground pieces of peanuts, although the peanut butter was warm. The most annoying part of the entire ordeal was trying to clean the machine. There are small areas in the machine that have to be cleaned out, but there is no convenient way to do so. Water will not flow through these areas and also the machine is somewhat hard to dry afterward, with small crevices. Another complaint I have is that the gear you manually turn to keep the peanuts flowing is made of plastic and does not seem that sturdy. All in all, we are going to keep the machine, because it does make an interesting countertop piece, and I will probably try it again when I have alot of time, but is not something that you can use and suddenly get great peanut butter.
Also, do not be fooled by these prices on amazon. When I first purchased it here it was $40. Now it is marked up to $60. It is questionable whether it is worth the investment at $40, but do some looking around if you do want to purchase it. I have seen it at other online stores for $40. Finally, good luck to those of you that want this. I hope that it works better for you than it did for me. Disappointing.

This is a cheaply made unit that takes far too long to do it's intended job. I managed to get two of the small output bins of peanut butter out of it after about 30 minutes, and it tasted quite good, using cheap dry roasted peanuts from a jar. But keeping the peanuts actually engaged in the grinder without jamming up is a chore.

The next batch I tried a few days later, I used canned peanuts cooked in oil. The machine wouldn't grind them hardly at all, and started smoking. I gave up and tossed it in the trash. I am going to try the food processor for making peanut butter next. Should have done that first, but I thought this machine would be easier. Live and learn.

I wish Amazon would let me rate this a Zero - but 1 is the lowest I can do.

This is a ridiculously bad piece of equipment. It has a little motor that spins at very high speed, and a rather crude metal grinder. The "peanut butter" that came out looked NOTHING like the picture - and it smelled of machine oil from the contraption.

I was very excited to find this gadget, as I need to make paste from Hazlenuts and others, but it doesn't work and what came out of it was INEDIBLE in my opinion.

I got it for half the $40 list price, but I threw it away after the first use - it was not even worth trying to clean it.

Do not buy this... This is the only rating like this I have ever posted - sorry if it bursts any bubbles.

This product is more for looks than use. It is poorly made, and works accordingly. It is too bad things like this are on the market.

This was a complete bust. Not only it looked cheap but also it worked only 4-5(really) seconds and stopped afterward. I had to return it. Looking at it more carefully, some parts were rusty.

I tried to make almond butter with this and all I got was almond dust and a very difficult cleaning task. I will continue to buy my fresh almond butter at the store.

I received this as a gift from my son and his wife and I was excited to try it out. I tried broken pieces of cashews [dry roasted] at first and some cashew powder came out the bottom and then nothing else would come out.

Today I bought some salted canned peanuts. They would not go through the grinding mechanism because they were too large. I ground them up in my food processor till they were pea sized and then they went through-- if I constantly turned the little cheap plastic knob at the top, but it took forever.

After about 10 minutes I had about 3-4 T of peanut butter, but the motor seemed to be getting hot and it was far too much trouble to make peanut butter this way. I dumped the rest of my peanuts in my mini-food processor, drizzled a bit of olive oil, and in about 30 seconds I had peanut butter that looked exactly the same [I did not have to put oil with the peanut butter maker] as the type that came through this device.

Additionally, the plastic piece you have to turn to keep the peanuts moving so they will go in the grinder is very cheaply made, and I don't even want to think about how hard it will be to clean. I am hoping my son saved his receipt and can get his money back.

I gave it one star because it looks cool, but honestly, it would take a long time to make enough peanut butter to make sandwiches for just a few kids; and too much work is involved.

... it doesn't. It's a really cool concept - imagine, your own homemade peanut butter! How cool is that? Well, I'm sure it would be cool if it worked, but it didn't.

I washed the machine and put it back together. I put peanuts in the hopper and turned it on. It made a lot of noise but didn't seem to do anything other than spit a little peanut dust into the cup. I let it run a while longer, even pushing the peanuts down a little with a spoon. It made a whole teaspoon of peanut butter before it started to smell like it was getting hot.

I haven't recycled it yet (most of it is plastic) because it was a Christmas present and I really want it to work, but it doesn't look like it's going to.

Bummer.

The Nostalgia PBM-200 Peanut Butter Machine arrived in good shape. I loaded the hopper with dry roasted peanuts, set the dial for smooth and turned it on! It shook so hard my husband had to hold it down while I turned the lever to feed the peanuts in the grinder. The peanut butter was never smooth but crunchy.

After grinding four pounds of peanuts, we placed The Nostalgia PBM-200 Peanut Butter Machine in the trash. It now has a home in the City Land Fill!

We were hoping to get fresh peanut butter like we used to be able to get at supermarkets in California. Unfortunately, we were unable to get anything remotely resembling peanut butter out of this machine. It's barely worth throwing away.Nostalgia PBM-200 Peanut Butter Machine