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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swtgran wrote:
More often than not, beans that take longer than the appropriate amount of time, are old beans. The older the beans, the longer the time.
Now how is that for "opening a whole other can of beans"?
Welcome Naio. terry r.
Thank you, terry!
I have only made the mistake (but maybe it is not a mistake) of salting beans once or twice. So, yes, it could be a coincidence -- maybe they were old AND salted!
Heck, maybe the two issues are even connected. Maybe I had not made beans in a long time, and that is why I put the salt in, and is also an indication that they had been in the cupboard since the last, long-ago, time.
