It has 15 different types of beans in it and it can be bought pre packaged. 15 different beans!
I’m unemployed and involuntarily vegan for health reasons. Dried mixed beans, brown rice, and frozen vegetables are keeping me alive.
Wait until you hear about fruit!
I’m a scientist. Beans are a fruit, of the musical variety.
I found a study that disagrees. However the sample size is pretty small
(Beans are technically seeds, the pod/shell they grow in is the fruit. -botany)
What happens when you eat them more? As a scientist, that is.
They make you toot.
Moreover, we’ve found significant correlations between the quantity of consumed legumes with the frequency and duration of flatus events. This relationship may be exponential. Further studies are needed to understand the upper bounds.
[citation needed]
The “unemployed” part of his comment suggests he has a low food budget, in which case fruit is a terrible choice. Beans have way more calories per dollar
It is harvest time for fruit trees in many areas. My area has apple trees and a lot have fallen due to a drought. I can look on the ground within a 100yd radius of my place and probably rustle up a pie’s worth of decent fruits. Further south the paw paws are coming in. And later in the season, walnuts and hickory nuts will come in. I know not everyone is so lucky to live in a forageable area, but you also might be surprised what’s around.
fallingfruit.org is a fantastic resource if you’re looking for sources of free food. They have mobile apps as well.
You are correct. I’m wretched.
I miss fruit.
Dollar store spices will help you thrive.
Solid advice, I highly endorse it.
Careful though, they recently recalled dollar store cinnamon because it had lead in it
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Dirt is really expensive if you’re unemployed. Some herbs and veg are quite happily grown kratky style, but that also comes with its own challenges
Be careful with cheap spices. If it’s from a trusted brand, sure, go for it. Whole spices tend to be more trustworthy than powders (and sometimes cheaper). But there have been some instances of heavy metal contamination of cheap powdered spices. Especially the imported powders you’ll see a lot in international grocery stores. Even if it is safe, you don’t know how long it’s been sitting in the store or waiting in a far away warehouse.
If you see super-cheap cinnamon, it’s usually Cassia cinnamon, which contains high levels of coumarin, a blood thinner. “Real” cinnamon is Ceylon. It’s more expensive, but has much lower levels of coumarin, and most prefer its more delicate flavor. Afaik labels aren’t required to disclose what kind of cinnamon you’re buying, but the more reputable brands sell the Ceylon variety and label it as such. You can also get whole cinnamon, and the two varieties are easy to tell apart.
I like getting spices from stores with a bulk spices section. e.g., if you need a tbsp of cinnamon, or a single star anise, a very specific amount of something you’ll only use once, etc… you put only what you need in a little container and purchase it by weight. It will be super cheap compared to a whole prepackaged container and you’ll always have a fresh product with no waste. You can even bring/reuse your own containers! A lot of local food co-ops have a bulk area with spices. “Frontier Co-op” is a popular vendor for bulk sets, and their stuff is vetted and super high quality. Best of both worlds IMO.
I prefer 239 bean soup. Yes, it must be exactly 239 beans, not even one bean more.
If 239 bean soup had even just one more bean, it would be too farty bean soup.
Incorrect, you can always have more beans
Source: I love beans
I hear they call you “Beano.”
What if you have it with a cup of coffee? Does that count towards the bean counter?
Asking the real questions
With an average-sized spoon, every spoonful could be a different type of 6 bean soup—it’s like getting five thousand soups in one!
15 choose 6 == 15 * 14 * 13 * 12 * 11 * 10 /(6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1) == 5005
Wow, I did the math thinking, no, hoping you were wrong, but 5k is right on the money. You must have done the math. Good show sir
Why assume there are 6 beans in a spoonful? Maybe 15 choose 8 is a more common scoop… Assume no partial beans in spoonfuls. Also assume each bean type is as likely to be “scooped”. Finally, assume an infinitely large bowl of soup.
I fucking love these.
I just throw the seasoning packet away, never used it at all. Just use the bean mix itself, it’s really good, HOWEVER be aware that some of the “beans” are actually lentils, and they break down into a mush faster than others.
If you cook the beans a long time in your soup as I do then it gets REALLY bad looking. We call it “ugly soup” because it’s ugly AF but DELICIOUS.
Edit: I’ve NEVER found a rock in these also, not once in the dozens of bags, maybe hundreds, I’ve used.
I found a rock in a bag of beans twice in my life. My mother found one when I was a child and made sure I saw why we look through them first.
Then as an adult. Once. I got to go AHA and grab it.
I’ve seen blood in chicken eggs much more commonly!
Maybe the screen process wasn’t as good when mother had to look. Small rocks are just going to be something that gets picked up occasionally if they’re being machine harvested.
I think it was more of an issue when I was younger for sure, but I still find them occasionally. I eat a ton of beans though.
Why would you find a rock in beans? Has someone even mentioned rocks?
Every bag of dried beans I’ve seen tells you to inspect them for rocks, since they are an agricultural product. I’ve never found one though.
Your day may come. Be vigilant! Best to find them on the counter than in your mouth. Some brands, or bean types, have a lot more than others. Black and red beans have had the most for me, in that order. It sucks because it’s harder to spot the rocks in the black beans, too.
I’ve never found a rock in any black or red beans but i also only by in bulk so maybe there’s less chance in there?
Probably less, yeah. Do you get them from the hopper style that drops from the bottom, or bins you scoop from?
If hopper I’d expect you to catch some sometimes because they settle down to the bottom, but if you scoop them from the top of bins I think it’s pretty unlikely you’d ever find any.
Lots of bags of dry beans have rocks. Little black pebbles usually, like coarse sand.
Some brands have them more often than others but you can easily break a tooth on them so I always toss them on the counter and scoot them around to check.
I’ve found lots of rocks in bags of beans over the years, could be a regional or economic thing too (just as a point of reference, I grew up really poor in the South). As a kid I remember pouring them out on a backing sheet to sort them, little did I realize I’d end up doing something similar as a teen with an AOL CD tin.
Yeah I find them more often in brands from foreign foods sections. Often times they’re better quality beans for a lot cheaper though!
I’ll take the couple minutes to scan for rocks if it means I’m getting better beans any day of the week. Fucking love beans, haven’t ever met one I don’t like.
Looking for Rock records amidst a trial pile?
“15 bean soup is great but you gotta check the packet for rocks” is the most American thing I’ve read today.
Most agricultural products go through screening to remove unwanted materials, but these systems can miss items that closely resemble the food in size and appearance. For example, I once bit into a rock that looked exactly like an almond in a bag of almonds. While it’s a rare occurrence, it’s still important to stay cautious. If something like this happens, contact the company and provide the product’s serial or lot number. This helps them trace where and when it was packaged and check if there was a problem with the screening process.
That parallels my experience. Great bean mix, haven’t found a stone yet. The seasoning pack included sounds gross to me so I bin it. This mix is magic in an instant pot with your own mix of spices and whatever liquid base you like. Takes just over an hour to go from prepping to eating.
Care to share what you do for seasoning instead? Every time I’ve tried (not many) it comes out disappointing.
Sure!
TLDR: mirepoix, garlic, ground mustard, ground thyme, basil, salt, pepper, bacon
I cut a pack of decent quality bacon into strips and start it a sizzlin
Then, dice equal parts carrot, onion, and celery (mirepoix) while the bacon is cooking
I crank the heat and sautee the mirepoix in the pan with the bacon, then I add the beans with the soak water and some salt (don’t go crazy, the bacon has salt too, and I add cheese at serving also)
Bring to boil and then reduce to simmer until the beans are mostly cooked, stirring and adding water as needed.
When things are cooked pretty well throw in a diced tomato (or a can), a bulb of crushed garlic, ground mustard, dried basil, and ground thyme. Let it cook a bit until the flavors develop, then adjust seasoning, salt, pepper etc. Sorry I don’t have measurements, I eyeball everything. I cook the soup a long time so by the end it will stick if you don’t stir fairly frequently because the lentils and some beans have dissolved. I like the soup thicc so that also contributes to it sticking.
The thyme and basil are the stars here, the thyme especially.
I usually eat it with some rice and some grated Monterey Jack cheese on top.
I use jasmine rice and put a small amount of olive oil in the pan, then crush a garlic clove per cup of rice I’m cooking and sautee gently (don’t burn it!) as soon as the garlic has cooked a bit I add a cup of dry rice to the pan and stir it around real good, add the water, and salt it. Rice should not be bland, motherfuckers!
I once forgot about it in a crock pot using the fast cook method and basically boiled the whole thing into mush. It made for a delicious bean dip.
Nice! Maybe I’ll try that. What else did you have in the pot?
I honestly have no recollection. It was about 10 years ago. I probably just used like half the seasoning packet with salt and pepper. (Because that seems like something I’d do.)
I throw away the seasoning packet as well. I use a couple smoked ham hocks as my seasoning.
So, so tasty.
I do as well in addition to the seasoning packet. I’ve grown to really like the seasonig with it. The smoked ham takes it to another level entirely, though.
There’s way more than fifteen beans in there. I’d say there’s at least like 200.
It’s just 50 servings of the 15 bean soup!
Lies, I count way more than 15 beans!
In Soviet Russia, only 15.
No no, in Soviet Russia, beans count you.
Who counts the bean counters?
Soviet Russia
Give me a semi–plausible reason why these beans need to be unmixed into 15 separate piles and I will give it all of my focus.
i guess to cook each of the beans just the perfect amount of time
They must be color-coded.
Oh, sure, it’s fine with Skittles, but do that with people and they get all mad about it.
Probably for statistical curiosity about ratios of different types of beans in the packet. Maybe you’re being shafted on expensive beans?
yeah i have to unmix my skittles its annoying
There is no way these beans all have the same cooking time
Just cook them longer. You can’t over-cook beans.
Not universally true but in the context of soup yeah fair point
You can over cook beans.
Soak overnight. Pressure cooker. 30 minutes on high heat. Natural release.
Safe from phytohaemagglutinin poisoning.
I dunno what dark magic spell that poison is but I’m going to assume it hurts.
It’s a mix of earth and blood magic. Life is wild.
They don’t. As I said in another post, the lentils break down first so it gets ugly but it’s nice and thick.
I’ve never pressure cooked them, just soak overnight but that might be a way to cook them without stirring too much, and keep the lentils formed correctly.
I dunno, the way I do it is a favorite so I’m not experimenting any more.
Doesn’t matter, the soup turns out great regardless. I’ve made soup from this exact same 15 bean soup mix a bunch of times and it’s always great
This and a $.99 thing of chorizo and some rice and we have dinner for a week.
Or a ham hock. Or both.
Why ruin something good?
It’s not like I put pineapple on it.
“Can you explain what the fediverse is for me again?”
B E A N S
They’re good for your health,
They’re good for your heart.
The more you eat,
The more you fart!Beaniverse
Op must not learn of the secret 16th bean.
Do not speak of this evil. It’s too powerful.
For those times when you look at a stream bed and get hungry
YES! Make it with vegetable stock (and the vegan “ham” flavoring included) and it’s especially tasty.
I gotta make this again soon
Oh hey Hurst! They package these in my city. Back in college I used to make a pot of these and a huge batch of cornbread regularly all winter. Good memories.
why should i know? i like some beans but not all beans
NO QUESTION, ONLY KNOW.
but…
