http://handsfreecooking.net/blog/2009/07/the-canned-beans-debate/ Eating green without recipes Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:22:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://handsfreecooking.net/blog/2009/07/the-canned-beans-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-4121 Candace Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:18:29 +0000 http://handsfreecooking.net/blog/?p=254#comment-4121 I completely agree that canned beans are a perfectly acceptable ingredient in a regular everyday meal. I get home from work at 7 pm, do you really think that I want to start boiling beans for hours after soaking them all night. I'm sure I'm not atypical in that respect. And cooking them in the pressure cooker can be dangerous right? Because they make a foam? But if you're making something specific and you want to control the texture you would have to go with dried. On the topic of garbanzo beans...and fresh ones like in the M. Bittman article you linked to, the fresh ones are the best. I found them once in a middle eastern market and although they take forever to shell, cooked up like fava beans in a pasta with ricotta. MM MMM! Thanks for the great blog :) I completely agree that canned beans are a perfectly acceptable ingredient in a regular everyday meal. I get home from work at 7 pm, do you really think that I want to start boiling beans for hours after soaking them all night. I’m sure I’m not atypical in that respect. And cooking them in the pressure cooker can be dangerous right? Because they make a foam?
But if you’re making something specific and you want to control the texture you would have to go with dried. On the topic of garbanzo beans…and fresh ones like in the M. Bittman article you linked to, the fresh ones are the best. I found them once in a middle eastern market and although they take forever to shell, cooked up like fava beans in a pasta with ricotta. MM MMM!
Thanks for the great blog

]]> http://handsfreecooking.net/blog/2009/07/the-canned-beans-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-4050 elizabeth Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:40:13 +0000 http://handsfreecooking.net/blog/?p=254#comment-4050 we have this debate in our house all the time-- because despite being a generally capable cook, max can't cook beans. at all. for me it's a texture thing-- you can't get canned beans to have the right texture, no matter what. i don't like beans to be too mushy, and somehow out of a can, they always are. of course, i don't always have a full day's advanced planning and a few hours of a vaguely watchful eye, but . . . if i did? dried, every time. we have this debate in our house all the time– because despite being a generally capable cook, max can’t cook beans. at all.
for me it’s a texture thing– you can’t get canned beans to have the right texture, no matter what. i don’t like beans to be too mushy, and somehow out of a can, they always are. of course, i don’t always have a full day’s advanced planning and a few hours of a vaguely watchful eye, but . . . if i did? dried, every time.

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