Iâve sometimes thought that computer programming is a desperate effort to realize the fantasy of Platonic ideas in a universe that simply doesnât work that way.
And then hereâs the NIST, with the Platonic ideal jar of peanut butter on a shelf.
You actually get three jars for that price, so itâs really $253.67 per jar.
According to https://www-s.nist.gov/srmors/view_detail.cfm?srm=1567b, you can get 50g of wheat flour for $472. So a 5 lb bag (Standard US size) would be $107K and change.
A bargain!
Peanut butter, peanut butter⊠we have the most expensive peanut butter!
You canât spread it, you canât eat it, you canât make a PBJ.
Just look at the sad label all the night and all the day.
We think youâd like it but weâre not allowed to say
Whether it tastes better than Jif or Skippy or Peter PanâŠ
Just be glad we didnât put it in a can!
[voiceover] Sold only in government testing facilities. Not for internal use.
I would have loved to have seen my university lab technician catch an undergrad student feeding peanut butter into a GCMS. It would probably have ended with ABH via a retort stand.
Anyone know why this peanut butter is considered âidealâ? Was it created in a lab to avoid contamination, so they can say it is 100 percent pure peanut butter?
this stuff is perfectly regular peanut butter.
I would hope that it might be produced according to some rigorous standard and subsequently subjected to a battery of tests to ensure uniformity within a carefully-defined statistical framework. But it also wouldnât surprise me if, in the end, it turned out to be ordinary Skippy with a huge mark-up. (They probably save the other stuff for the molecular gastronomists.)
Peanut butter can be so mysterious.
I can imagine injecting either an extract in a suitable solvent, filtered to not clog the column, or, more likely for GCMS, the vapors from the headspace (for aroma analysis).
For less volatile stuff I could imagine using LC-MS or other hyphenated analytical technology.
Reference samples are a must-have. With the hopefully increasing availability of home-lab instrumentation, I can see a growing market for these.
Gosh, Iâd hate to see the price for the Organic jars.
They make organic jars now? A fool and his moneyâŠ
Itâs almost certainly 100% pure peanut butter, but even if not, I bet the cost here is to make damned sure itâs cooked at exactly the same temperature, pressure, time, etc.
Itâs not so much that itâs ideal, but that itâs the same stuff for everyone who is using it for testing.
The plastic ones.
The glass jars are the inorganic ones.
We canât know whether it truly is ideal peanut butter without knowing - crunchy or smooth?
Steps back to watch the thread explode, like a thread about cyclists vs. motorists.*
What about⊠ânone, and double the jellyâ?
On that note, what solvent do âorganicâ dry cleaners use? Good ole Methylene Chloride?
At last they donât spend too much (money and time) in packaging !
These customers are the good kind; not influenced by packaging, focused just at the substance.
Steps up to claim no_prize, Kanye is outraged I wonât give up non existent no_prize to BeyoncĂ©.
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