It looks disgusting, doesn't it? I probably could have frozen them for some future cooking experiment (maybe a red bean veggie burger?)--but I only thought of that while I was writing this post. And the beans are already in the trash. Ugh. At least they were dirt cheap. I am bummed for now but I will definitely revisit this challenge!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Home-made Red Kidney Beans FAIL
Sigh. My venture into cooking dried beans has failed. I blame my slow cooker. I set it up to cook on low for 8 hours overnight. When it was done, it should have automatically switched to WARM. However, for some reason, when I checked it this morning, it was STILL cooking and it was on HIGH. Yikes. Had the beans been cooking for 10+ hours? Clearly they had because they were MUSH when I drained the water out.
It looks disgusting, doesn't it? I probably could have frozen them for some future cooking experiment (maybe a red bean veggie burger?)--but I only thought of that while I was writing this post. And the beans are already in the trash. Ugh. At least they were dirt cheap. I am bummed for now but I will definitely revisit this challenge!
It looks disgusting, doesn't it? I probably could have frozen them for some future cooking experiment (maybe a red bean veggie burger?)--but I only thought of that while I was writing this post. And the beans are already in the trash. Ugh. At least they were dirt cheap. I am bummed for now but I will definitely revisit this challenge!
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I haven't done many slow-cooker beans. Mostly I do the "quick soak" and then make sure to do the last bit of cooking when I am home. I cook a bunch, then freeze them in dinner-sized portions.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment! I've heard of the "quick soak" method but I've never done it myself. I,too, was trying to make a whole bunch of beans at once and freeze them for future use. I'll come back to this idea in the near future, as I am making more recipes with beans.
Cheers,
Kim
I am quick-soaking right now, actually. I can't personally tell the difference between that and the long soak method when I have a final product.
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