Peanut Butter & Cheese by Josh Burch

Six cards. Two colors. One impossible separation.

Peanut Butter & Cheese is a stunningly visual take on one of card magic’s most beloved plots—Oil & Water—and it looks like the cards are obeying your thoughts.

Here’s what your audience sees:
Three red cards and three black cards are openly interlaced. Fronts and backs are shown. Everything looks completely mixed. No cover. No sneaky moves. No suspicious handling.

Then… it happens.

With a simple fan of the cards, the reds and blacks visually separate themselves.

Not once.
Not twice.
But over multiple clean, escalating phases.

Each time, the mixing looks fairer.
Each separation looks more impossible.

And in the final phase?
You spread the cards on the table… turn them over… and the colors unmix themselves so visually that people gasp out loud.

Created by Josh Burch, Peanut Butter & Cheese strips the Oil & Water plot down to its most magical moments and rebuilds it into something bold, elegant, and unbelievably easy to perform. The specially printed cards do nearly all the work for you, letting you focus on pacing, presentation, and reactions.

Why magicians love Peanut Butter & Cheese:

• Ultra-visual Oil & Water routine
• Multi-phase structure with escalating impact
• Fronts and backs shown mixed
• No knuckle-busting sleights
• No weird moves or cover
• Cards do the heavy lifting
• Perfect for close-up and strolling
• Instant clarity for any audience

This isn’t a puzzle.
It’s a visual poem with playing cards.

If you want an Oil & Water routine that looks clean, feels impossible, and hits hard without breaking your fingers, Peanut Butter & Cheese deserves a permanent place in your pocket.

"Josh Burch sent me a demo of his new release Peanut Butter and Cheese and I LOVE IT! It’s clean and visual AF!!! Do yourself a favour and grab one while you can!" - Matt Johnson, AGT, The World's Best, The Illusionists, Fool Us

"This is definitely one of the cleanest oil and waters I have ever seen. The use of the colored back makes it so much more visual! All the subtleties and convincers are very well thought out." - Eric Chien, AGT, FISM Grand Prix Winner

"Very clever idea and very clean trick." - Hyunjoon Kim, FISM Award Winner, The Illusionists World Tour

"Oh wow! That fooled me bad!" - Michael Pilkey

"THAT WAS SICK!!! I have no earthly idea what is going on! It's Gorgeous!" - Dena Brady