Beans: to salt or not to salt?
That is the question...and we're talking about dried beans here. When cooking beans meant to be consumed whole (baked beans, chili etc.) I was taught not to add salt or anything else until they we...
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We were raised on pinto beans and others and cornbread.
I remember the new fangled aluminum pots and pans. The Peddlers claimed they added flavor. they did as the salt in the boiling beans put some aluminum, in the beans. Aluminum is bad on Alzeheimers etc, or at least that was the preachin.
Adding salt, early, in the cooking adds flavor to the beans as does the pork, lard, or bacon drippings.
Don't cook in metal. Use enamel pots to cool in.
Wife insisted on cooking in stainless steel for a time but I finally got her not too.
Lots of stainless and aluminum pots and ans are used but cooking with water and salt in them is not the wisest thing.
Harder to clean, if you scorch something and don't like as high a heat r porcelin ware is still the way to go or cast iron.. IMO
I remember the new fangled aluminum pots and pans. The Peddlers claimed they added flavor. they did as the salt in the boiling beans put some aluminum, in the beans. Aluminum is bad on Alzeheimers etc, or at least that was the preachin.
Adding salt, early, in the cooking adds flavor to the beans as does the pork, lard, or bacon drippings.
Don't cook in metal. Use enamel pots to cool in.
Wife insisted on cooking in stainless steel for a time but I finally got her not too.
Lots of stainless and aluminum pots and ans are used but cooking with water and salt in them is not the wisest thing.
Harder to clean, if you scorch something and don't like as high a heat r porcelin ware is still the way to go or cast iron.. IMO
