Are Dried Beans worth the effort?
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Any questions on how to cook dried beans? Drop ‘em here and we might do a future video on it!
That was a really good video. I loved how you were inspired by Ethan’s video (which I also enjoyed) to make this one. It would be awesome if you could also compare frozen and dried chickpeas/beans in a future video. Keep up the good work 🙂
When I have time I cook dried beans and freeze them in portions. They freeze fine. So they are ready when I need them. No reason to buy canned beans.
While I still greatly appreciate and use canned beans, especially because where I live they can be very cheap (e.g. 0.23€ for a can of kidney beans, 0.44€ for a can of chickpeas), I will say that dried also have an aspect of convenience in that it’s very easy to stock up on them. Like I can get a kilogram of dried beans and it’ll be very easy to take home and store in my cupboard. Meanwhile if I wanted to take home the same amount of canned beans, that would take at least 8 cans, which including the soaking water and the weight of the can would also be around 3.75 times as heavy. When you have to take that weight home on a backpack, that can become really annoying really quickly.
I love this series ❤ please make more of these, you make such a great breakdown 👍
i prefer cooking my own but havent tried a fancy brand dried bean usually a store bough comercial brand like mckenzies
Good vid bu remember you also have to factor in the cost of cooking dried beans at home.
Baking soda. Grocery stores may have older beans and soaking them with baking soda can help.. I also suggest soaking beans and freezing them in their reconstituted state. Soak when you have time and a frozen beans don’t take much longer than than canned ones to cook. Note: if I am freezing them only soak in baking soda and salt. I don’t know how I will use them in the final recipe. Final note: never underestimate a pressure cooker
Hi Nisha! When you do refried beans, you want to add a bit more oil after you mash them as that's the part where you refry them. First fry with original oil, then you mash and add a bit more oil fry the add liquid for desired consistency. – love from Mexico
Dried beans + instant pot is a winner!! I think your eye shade looks like a bra, LOL, but very cute since it's pink!! Great test!!
Very interesting video! I think I will start buying dried beans 🙂 maybe something similar is possible with tomatoes. Canned whole tomatoes, canned tomato chunks and fresh tomatoes? I wonder how it affects the flavour and texture.
Cooking dried beans without a pressure cooker is such a waste of time and energy.
I love dried beans! My tip is to freeze them. Cook a lot of them once in a while, use in some recipe and then freeze the rest. After heating up (like in a soup or sauce) they taste just as fine as before freezing. It's cheaper and time-saving.
Wow, this was a lot of work!! This was a great video, and really was very helpful! Thank you Nisha ❤
in the cost effectiveness you did not mention the cost of energy to cook?
Bug😂
I buy dried beans, then can a kilo at a time. Win win.
Thank you so much for this!
Good to see kenji's research being used here. But note he also adds baking soda to the brine soak. Since I began following his advice my beans cook much more evenly and creamy but not mushy.
More of these types of videos, please!!!
The fact that you can cook beans with out boiling them until soft changed my life. Just blend and keep adding water and spices until heat them and enjoy :v
Great video! I actually cook dried beans from scratch every day as a living. I live in Mexico and beans from scratch is a staple and would be a crime to eat from a can. So people prefer to buy cooked beans fresh from the day even if they don't cook them themselves. It's my small business. And it's just water and salt. We eat them plain with the broth here as a side dish, or fried, which I also make.
I loveeed the last recipe tho and definitely gonna try it!! Never seen it before!
Good reminder that I don't eat enough beans. 😵💫
I was surprised you didn’t use a pressure cooker/ Instapot to expedite the cooking process.
I want to know is the nutritional value , which one carries more vitamins or minerals the can beans or the dry one.
I prefer dried beans much of the time but not always. Being retired I don't care about how long something takes. Sometimes I believe I would recognise the difference between dried and canned but I have never really tested that.
Yes, wheat and other grains make the daily bread but without beans, garlic, and peppers, why bother????
As I mentioned in your prior post with a poll about can vs. dry, I always used to make my own beans from dry in the IP but I got Covid in July and since then the idea of soaking, cooking, portioning out the extra beans to store and then cleaning the IP seems overwhelming. I am also not getting any younger. I can get no salt canned beans in Sprouts and usually I eat them in hummus or highly flavorful soups or stews. Aside from the hummus I have not noticed that much flavor difference when the beans are part of a larger recipe full of other vegetables and spices. I will get back to cooking from dry but it is great to have canned available, especially living in earthquake country in California, where canned beans are part of my emergency prep food stash. Thanks for doing this video.
Rancho Gordo has the best beans on the planet! Before I tried their beans, I thought a dried bean was a dried bean. I was incorrect. Theirs are phenomenal! And, any dried bean is better than the canned version. Thank you so much for this video!
"Let's say you and your family of four eat 10 cups of beans per week…" — so 2.5 cups per person, or 1/2 cup (1 serving) of beans every. single. day. ? really? eating a serving of beans every day is average? Seems like a lot to eat beans for lunch or dinner every single day for your entire life.🤷 Leaves little room for all other protein sources (yes, even limiting to vegan ones). Another reason to choose canned is that you simply don't eat enough beans to make it worth the effort, storage, and stress of eating all the beans before they go bad.
Aaaahhh You and Kenji and Ethan are my trio. I love that you're feeding off each other and getting better together.
I prefer to cook dried beans. They taste amazing and you save so much money! We often cook more than we need, and freeze up a lot of it for later, and when we have a selection of frozen, cooked beans, it’s super convenient. (We also cook and freeze batches of lentils, farro, barley, freekah, etc., and use them and frozen beans in all kinds of soups, salads, and other dishes in endless combinations.
Eyes the cans of refried beans on the shelf guiltily I always doctor them up a LOT, but I can certainly switch to canned pinto beans. It's not THAT much more work….
bug, also salt was a game changer for me, my beans are SO much better taste and texture wise with salt.
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I love dried beans especially in the spring, fall, and winter. I wanted to mention that here in the Southeast during the humid/ blazing hot summer, canned beans are a blessing. 😋🫘
Loved your video. Very informative. It looked like you were wearing a bra for a blindfold.
Beth
Rancho Gordo beans are 100% worth the price. Not only are they still cheaper than almost any other food you get, but because they are so fresh, you do NOT need to soak them overnight. I give them a ten minute hard boil, and then simmer for usually 1-2 hours. Rarely do I need to cook them longer. They are so delicious! I love to use their pinquito beans to make refried beans.
When i started the Video i thought: what could possibly be said about beans for 26 Minutes. At the end i was like: its already over?!
I keep 1 garbanzo bean can for an aquafava "emgergency". Otherwise, I always use dried beans. Better and cheaper. In the age of Instantpots, there really isn't any effort involved. Simply have to plan a little bit ahead and soak them overnight. Not soaking them is not an option in my opinion: uses less energy and makes the beans more digestible.
Great timing! I love your recipes! I made black bean soup today using dried beans that I had soaked overnight. They cooked very tender and held their shape until I blended some to thicken the soup. I used the softer canned black beans last week to make black bean burgers, first rinsing them then drying them out in the oven before mashing them with crumbled walnuts and other ingredients to make the patty. The liquid from those canned beans found its way into this weeks black bean soup. Both dried and canned have their place in my pantry.
The age of dried beans matters. Rancho Gordo says that supermarket dried beans may be years old whereas it carries 'new crop' beans, those harvested within the past year. That being said, as far as canned beans go I do not ever eat them straight from the can anyway, they go in a recipe with multiple components. The only time I buy canned beans now is when they are deeply discounted so as to be cheaper than a bag of dried beans, and I add them to the pantry as 'emergency' provisions.