Posted: 5/30/2007 4:51:08 PM EDT
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I now know the magic of dried beans. I'd never bought them before a few weeks ago when I bought a bag to make soup tonight I cooked a bag of limas for the same price as canned beans you get a bag that once rehydrated is easily 2-3 maybe 4 cans worth of beans |
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uh oh I had already cooked them when I started the thread I cooked to boiling for a minute or two and let them sit while I moved some stuff back up to my apartment from the basement storage room and then rinsed them and cooked in fresh water with bacon for flavor guess I'll be bloated |
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You don't have to change water a whole bunch of times to get rid of the magical, musical ingredient of beans. The offending compounds are oligosaccharides - a type of sugar found in beans and other gassy foods like cabbage and onions. The stuff is water soluble and easy to get out of the beans. All I do is heat to a simmer/boil, shut off the heat, and let it stand until cool. Pour off the water and you are good to go. I suffer no intestinal side effects at all, but I've been cooking with dried beans for many years. |