Texas Beans: A Fast, Tasty, Smoky Bean Delight

» craigtheater - Cooking the beans

I am new on the computer so bear with me . I am having a bbq and I decided to make my own beans instead of the canned kind. I stumbled on to your page and decided use the recipe on Richard Mann's article; the Texas style recipe using ground beef. I have all my ingredients and I'm ready to start. At the beginning of the recipe, it says "Cook the beans". Do I soak them first? Boil them? Cook them in a frying pan? Help me, I'm trying to make a nice dish of baked beans. Thanks.

-- posted by craigtheater

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» algernon - Re: Cooking the beans

In response to message posted by craigtheater:

That recipe does leave a lot unsaid, doesn't it? OK, let's tackle the answer to this question.

If using canned beans, just dump 'em in a saucepan and heat them up. No problem. That's probably not what you meant, though, is it?

For dry beans, there are several methods to go from dry beans to cooked beans. In a separate e-mail to Mr./Mrs./Ms. craigtheater, I cut and pasted a bunch of info to answer the question. If anyone else would like to see that info, an excellent source is the Ontario White Bean Producer's Bean Basics page at http://www.ontariobeans.on.ca/basics.htm...

Read the soaking and cooking sections.

If the BBQ is tonight, I'd run get some canned beans or, if there's time, start the quick-soak routine. (The quick-soak routine is only quick in comparison to soaking beans overnight--it still takes over an hour.)

Rich

-- posted by algernon

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