Baked Beans

[elhombresinnombre]

how is it poisonous?

Some beans - especially kidney beans - more especially red kidney beans - contain toxins which may be enhanced by gentle heating but are destroyed by cooking at higher temperatures. So if you are cooking raw or dried beans don't use a slow cooker set at less than 75deg C but sustained cooking at 80deg C or more will render them harmless. Tinned beans are cooked and therefore harmless.

Having said that, I don't know why people always tip away the water the beans have been cooked in. But they do, and I have always tipped it away too.

 

[Caz]

So - am I the *only* one who thought ''blazing saddles'' when reading the title of this thread ? Damn...