I'm sorry, but at first I thought you were joking. About both the peanut butter oil and "frig" being a swear word. Who knew!!!

Just how much peanut butter are you eating that you can save that little bit of oil that floats to the top of the jar?

What I love about peanut oil is that it does have a high smoke point and it doesn't taste like peanut butter. I use it whenever I stir fry using my wok. I would think that the oil you saved off of your peanut butter would have a pronounced peanut butter taste.

Just buy a bottle of peanut oil and then your won't have to worry about removing the peanut butter from the oil.

Ann

Rita, I'll be darned if I know how either, I just stir the oil back in or the peanut butter is too dry for me.

So, does the stuff from the peanut butter jar taste like peanut butter when you fry stuff in it?

As for "fridge" and "frig", my Grandma called every refrigerator an "ice box" thus avoiding any of that issue, LOL. Ashley, who just graduated from college on Friday and now knows everything, has pointed out a couple of times to me that "refrigerator" has no "d" in it, so why do I add it to my abbreviation? Darned if I know, that's why I sent her to college, to find out! (grin)

Annie

Rita, I don't know about the oil but I'm with you on the fridge thing. I guess it's the same rational (or lack of) used for Bill being the abbreviation/short name for William.

I think it was LindaC who brought this up once.

As my mother would have said, it's a Frigidaire, whatever the brand was. As in "store that in the Frigidaire", or don't leave the Frigidaire door open. Maybe that's where the "d" comes from, Ashley is just too young to recall such things.
;-)

Yup. I'd prefer to just buy a small bottle of oil and toss the excess oil in the PB. To get enough for frying, you'd have to be eating a LOT of peanut butter!

The "d" comes from the idiosyncracys of the English language. In the middle of a word like refrigerator, the g is pronounced with a soft "g" sound....but when a "g" comes at the end of a word, it always had a hard sound....and as anyone knows, frig is a naughty word....as in "That friggin'; squirrel is chewing on the deck!"
Soooo we add that "d" where it shouldn't really be to pronounce it correctly.
I used to know the phonetic symbol for the soft "G" but that's one of the things I have forgotten....but no matter it wouldn't be on my keyboard anyway.
Yeah...pop for a bottle of peanut oil....you will like it better than the oil from a jar of peanut butter.
But, check the label...I used to buy all natural peanut butter that had safflower oil in it.
Linda C

Now that's interesting, I thought you were supposed to mix the oil back down into the peanut butter or it would be to dry.

About frig, I've only heard friggin as a cuss word, and not one used since the 70's. Nowadays it's transformed to frickin. Technically, it's nothing more than an abreviation and how you interprete it. I see frig, I read refrigerator.

Now, don't get me started on the "OMG" when people insert God for the "G" part. SOOO very offensive.

Beth

I thought that the "d" was added to fridge in order to make the "i" have a short sound instead of a long sound. Also, can you think of any words that end in "ige"? All I can think of is "paige". As Linda said, the "e" is necessary at the end to keep the "g" sound soft, but then the "e" would also make the "i" have a long sound without the "d". There are lots of words that end in a vowel plus "dge", and the vowel is then short. If they end in vowel plus "ge", then the vowel is generally long, such as page, huge, etc.

Lars

Don't fry anything in the salvaged oil. The saving is outweighed by the time and trouble of getting the peanut butter solids out of the oil.

I don't know about the peanut oil thing, other than perhaps putting it through a coarse filter paper or fine mesh sieve, but I know the other ones!

"Frig" is an old fashioned verb for the act of frottage (rubbing).

The "G" in fridge or refrigerator is actually a combination of the sound of "D" and "ZH" as in "azure". It is sometimes spelled "g", sometimes spelled "dg" and sometimes spelled "dj". English is quirky. :) But the conventional spelling of "fridge" with a "d" may very well be so that it wouldn't be mistaken for the naughty word! Or could be because many people pronounce it with a "D" + "G", that is, a double "D" sound. "Fridge" is the conventional spelling, but conventional spellings altogether are rather new in the development of language.

As to "Bill", there is an old convention in English nicknaming that reduces the first consonant of open labials to a closed stop. That is W becomes B, and M becomes P. Will -> Bill, Matty -> Patty, etc. There's also the addition of an "N" to names that start with vowels -- Ann -> Nan, Ed -> Ned -- so that everyone sounds like they have a head cold. :D

If you're going to be so technical and sensitive, then it's actually a "frigerator" since you cannot RE-frigerate something until you first "frigerate" it. And it's an abbreviation so frig is far more proper than fridge. Not everything that's not spelled phonetically is swearing.

But for the topic, the teaspoon or tablespoon of oil per jar would take a lot of jars to be significant, wouldn't it? I had a jar of natural peanut butter that was so separated it wouldn't work back in and was so dry it couldn't be used. Thought I got a deal on it at Trader Joe's but guess I got what I paid for. Tossed it. Oil and all! Wouldn't even put it in the "frig"! :D

Hmmmm. And here I thought the abbreviation was freakin', not frikken'. Not that I use either of those abbreviations. If I'm so angry, I'm going to curse, I'll use the word itself. (which happens seldom, but it does happen)

Annie

I have no idea how it got started, nor do I care, it's just a pet peeve of mine, but if you look in a dictionary or use Define online you get:

Encarda.com

frig [ frig ] (past and past participle frigged, present participle frig·ging, 3rd person present singular frigs) - a highly offensive term meaning to have sexual intercourse with somebody ( there is another even more offensive definition that I will not post )

fridge [ frij ] noun - same as refrigerator

www.thefreedictionary.com
frig (fr g) v. frigged, frig·ging, frigs Vulgar Slang. v. tr. 1. To have sexual intercourse with. ( there is another even more offensive definition that I will not post )

fridge (fr j) n. Informal. A refrigerator. fridge n. Informal short for refrigerator.

Now then back to my problem... The natural peanut butter I buy has at least two tablespoons of oil floating on the top... If I mix it all in the peanut butter it is way too runny, it actually runs out of the sandwich... I only pour off the top layer of oil, there's still an oil slick on top of the peanut butter that I do mix in, and it's more than enough oil to keep it gooey... ( I do not put peanut butter in the FRIDGE [ lol ] ) There for a while we were going through a jar a week and I now have a quart of oil...

For the record the peanut butter 'solids/juice' kinda sinks to the bottom of each layer of oil... So I'm guessing that if I let it all come to room temperature all the peanut butter will sink to the bottom of the jar and if I'm very careful I might be able to pour off the oil for frying and not start a fire...

I just thought someone here might know... Oh well, if you don't hear from me you know I set the kitchen on fire... lol

Rita