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Dry, black beans
Posted: April 7 08, 2:27 pm
by docellis
There is nothing I can do to make them taste normal. By normal, I mean like how they canned ones taste after cooking them.
I've tried for years to use dry black beans. I LOVE black beans and I eat cans and cans and cans of them. So I would rather buy a giant bag of them. But they taste like crap no matter what I do. Soak them overnight? Crap. Boil? Crap. Combinations of everything you can think of...crap.
Re: Dry, black beans
Posted: April 7 08, 2:38 pm
by cardinalkarp
Just keep buying the canned ones then. Are the ones you buy just canned in water or something else?
Re: Dry, black beans
Posted: April 7 08, 2:43 pm
by Popeye_Card
docellis wrote:But they taste like crap no matter what I do. Soak them overnight? Crap. Boil? Crap. Combinations of everything you can think of...crap.
Maybe you're buying the wrong bag of beans at the store? You have to pay close attention--they place the bags of small black pieces of crap right next to the black beans sometimes.
Re: Dry, black beans
Posted: April 7 08, 2:44 pm
by omaha_red
docellis wrote:There is nothing I can do to make them taste normal. By normal, I mean like how they canned ones taste after cooking them.
I've tried for years to use dry black beans. I LOVE black beans and I eat cans and cans and cans of them. So I would rather buy a giant bag of them. But they taste like crap no matter what I do. Soak them overnight? Crap. Boil? Crap. Combinations of everything you can think of...crap.
my wife loves them too and is always soaking them overnight and then she
makes this great salad with the pureed beans.. not quite sure what she
does but they are pretty tasty..
Re: Dry, black beans
Posted: April 7 08, 2:48 pm
by Molly
omaha_red wrote:docellis wrote:There is nothing I can do to make them taste normal. By normal, I mean like how they canned ones taste after cooking them.
I've tried for years to use dry black beans. I LOVE black beans and I eat cans and cans and cans of them. So I would rather buy a giant bag of them. But they taste like crap no matter what I do. Soak them overnight? Crap. Boil? Crap. Combinations of everything you can think of...crap.
my wife loves them too and is always soaking them overnight and then she
makes this great salad with the pureed beans.. not quite sure what she
does but they are pretty tasty..
doc, hubby also makes a black bean salad. He soaks and cooks the beans just enough so they are still crunchy. Then he adds chopped celery and onions.
Re: Dry, black beans
Posted: April 7 08, 9:59 pm
by docellis
they never stop being crunchy and I want them to stop being crunchy...
Re: Dry, black beans
Posted: April 7 08, 11:06 pm
by lukethedrifter
Are you salting the cooking liquid?
Re: Dry, black beans
Posted: April 7 08, 11:12 pm
by docellis
lukethedrifter wrote:Are you salting the cooking liquid?
No...I haven't owned salt in 10 years...except kosher salt for margaritas...should I add that? I hate the taste of salt (except for maragitas)...
Re: Dry, black beans
Posted: April 7 08, 11:18 pm
by Arthur Dent
docellis wrote:lukethedrifter wrote:Are you salting the cooking liquid?
No...I haven't owned salt in 10 years...except kosher salt for margaritas...should I add that? I hate the taste of salt (except for maragitas)...
I'll bet the black beans you get in the can are salted. I don't have any right now, but I checked a can of kidney beans, and it was salted.
Re: Dry, black beans
Posted: April 7 08, 11:20 pm
by docellis
Wow...if salting them makes them stop being crunchy I will owe you lunch Arthur. I'm trying it tomorrow.