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The Great Bean Pot Adventure

© Richard Mann

Sometimes you just get caught up in the flow of things. Sometimes the tide of events overwhelms your normal good sense and you go along for the ride. Sometimes you don't even regret it when it's over.

So it was with the Great Bean Pot Adventure at my house a few weeks ago. Let me tell you about it.

If you've found this lonely outpost on the Web, then you might already know that I have this passion for beans. I really like beans and everything associated with them (well...almost everything). It came to my attention as I was gathering information for this Web site that there is such a thing as a bean pot. Oh, I had always known there were bean pots out there, but I had never paid much attention to them and never really thought of them as playing a part in my life. In fact, we even have a bean pot in our cupboard that-until this adventure-we had never used. (Even though we managed to break the lid somewhere along the line.)

Suddenly, now that I had become aware of bean pots as a necessity in the well-equipped bean lover's kitchen, I had to have one. One with a lid. One with character and charm and history and mystique. You see, I wanted-no, needed-to bake our family's treasured baked beans in a bean pot of my very own.

Where do you go to buy a bean pot?

Good question. I suppose that kitchen specialty stores might have them, or perhaps places that sell crockery would. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of time to spend pounding the pavement to find such an item. I'm a computer geek, an Internet junkie; why should I have to leave home to buy a bean pot?

Indeed. So I fired up my favorite Internet search engine (Inference Find at www.infind.com) and searched for the words "bean pot." I got a list of dozens of fascinating-sounding recipes involving bean pots, but no actual purveyors of bean pots. Ah ha, it seems that bean-pot sellers are not big on e-commerce yet.

But I didn't give up yet. (Of course, I wouldn't; not with dozens of other search engines at my beck and call.) I had this idea. I had recently discovered eBay, home of the Internet auction. When I recently needed a leather coin purse to replace my last one, which had died of overuse, I found several wonderful coin purses on eBay and bought them. Why wouldn't someone be selling a bean pot or two on eBay?

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