Is peanut butter considered a liquid?

[mommy2allyandaveri]

Can I take a jar of peanut butter in my carry on for flying? Wondering if security would consider this a liquid product

 

[Gracie09]

As in a jar - yes It is considered a liquid.
If it can be smeared, poured it is liquid.

 

[Jennasis]

http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-information/helpful-hints-holiday-travelers

They list peanut butter as something to be packed in your checked bag.

 

[Meriweather]

It has to hold it shape to not be considered a liquid or gel

 

[JoeA]

...or gel.

if it's not solid then it's a liquid!

 

[bcla]

Heck - glass is a liquid. Maybe not by TSA standards, but it's still a liquid.

However, I'd be surprised if you couldn't take a PB&J sandwich past airport security. It's supposed to be about the liquid explosive scare and a sandwich isn't going to for a very good explosive.

 

[usnuzuloose]

I have seen a powdered peanut butter. I have heard it is really good.

 

[Jeafl]

When my daughter was living in London and craving Jif, I packed a huge jar of it in my carry-on bag never imagining it would be considered a liquid. They confiscated it from my bag, and I am sure some TSA agent took it home and had himself a big old PB&J sandwich.

 

[Jeafl]

Oops, double post.

 

[low-key]

come on now, you could do a couple hours with out Peanut butter

 

[littlejimmy]

come on now, you could do a couple hours with out Peanut butter

speak for yourself...mmmm, peanut butter

 

[low-key]

speak for yourself...mmmm, peanut butter

 

[Meriweather]

I have seen a powdered peanut butter. I have heard it is really good.

I have some....it is okay. Lot less fat, but it doesn't taste the same.....peanut butter needs to have that oil

 

[bcla]

It's a great backpacking food. I jammed several single serving Jif cups into a bear canister (bears love PB too). It's calorie dense. I had it for breakfast.

However, park rangers weren't exactly going to confiscate it when lining up to climb Half Dome.

 

[JoeA]

I have seen a powdered peanut butter. I have heard it is really good.

A perfect ingredient to make beer...peanut butter porter. Ummmm!

 

[usnuzuloose]

I have some....it is okay. Lot less fat, but it doesn't taste the same.....peanut butter needs to have that oil

I was going to give it a try as for the diet I need. I will try it once. Hopefully it will satisfy my craving for it once in a while.

 

[Meriweather]

I was going to give it a try as for the diet I need. I will try it once. Hopefully it will satisfy my craving for it once in a while.

Costco here now carries it.
What in peanut butter can't you have? It is minus the oil, but still has sugar

 

[Geoff_M]

Heck - glass is a liquid. Maybe not by TSA standards, but it's still a liquid.

I know you're just being a bit snarky, but that's an Urban Legend... Old "wavy" glass is that way because of older plate glass manufacturing techniques. If you think about it, old glass vases (even ancient Egyptian ones thousands of years old) don't "sag" with age. Glass is a classified as an "amorphous solid" that does not "run" or deform to any detectible degree due to liquid flow anywhere near ambient temperatures:

...cathedral glass should not flow because it is hundreds of degrees below its glass-transition temperature, Ediger adds. A mathematical model shows it would take longer than the universe has existed for room temperature cathedral glass to rearrange itself to appear melted.

Another link from the Corning Museum of Glass.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Costco here now carries it.
What in peanut butter can't you have? It is minus the oil, but still has sugar

The stupid sugar, but maybe if I just limit it to have a teaspoon once in a while it would still satisfy the craving for PB.

 

[IMissEd]

TSA confiscated our jar of JIF peanut butter last year. My husband was traveling to Vietnam for a month and packed it in his carry-on.