Tassie couple make ‘world’s best peanut butter’ in Kempton
A couple moved to Tasmania nearly 10 years ago with one main objective: to bring homemade peanut butter to the island state. THEIR SECRET TO SUCCESS >>
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Believe it or nut, but the world’s best peanut butter may very well be made right here in Tassie.
Kempton couple Ash Schuller and Terri Attrill moved to Tasmania nearly 10 years ago from Victoria with one main objective: to bring homemade peanut butter to the island state.
“It was in Victoria but it wasn’t here,” Ms Attrill told the Mercury.
“As much as peanuts are not a Tasmanian product, we thought: ‘It gives us an in and we can do Salamanca’.”
The pair are now co-owners of The Olde Spikey Bridge Peanut Butter.
They have a coveted site at Salamanca Market where they spruik their peanut butter as the “world’s best” partly because they dry roast the peanuts for longer than usual “to bring out the flavour”.
The couple have another roasting trick up their sleeve, but said they would be nuts to share that information with anyone.
Mr Schuller and Ms Attrill started making peanut butter out of their Kempton home but recently realised they needed a bigger space.
“When we roasted, it wasn’t a home, it became a factory for a day,” Ms Attrill said.
The Mercury was given special access to the factory they now use to freshly roast their product, located less than 100m from the home they share with their children and Peanut the whippet.
“Not many people have had the opportunity to be in here,” Mr Schuller joked.
He said the peanut butter catered to most dietary requirements – except, of course, nut allergies – and is made using only Queensland peanuts and a pinch of Australian sea salt.
The peanut butter – both crunchy and smooth – can be found in more than 130 outlets across Tasmania, with Mr Schuller and Ms Attrill hand delivering to their stockists.
But the pair, who said they have “winged it” from the start, have turned down offers to expand production.
“We don’t want to be millionaires,” Ms Attrill said.
“We just keep it simple.”
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