It has 15 different types of beans in it and it can be bought pre packaged. 15 different beans!
For those times when you look at a stream bed and get hungry
Oops! All beans!
Lies, I count way more than 15 beans!
In Soviet Russia, only 15.
No no, in Soviet Russia, beans count you.
YES! Make it with vegetable stock (and the vegan “ham” flavoring included) and it’s especially tasty.
I gotta make this again soon
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.
Why would you find a rock in beans? Has someone even mentioned rocks?
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.
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 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?
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.
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.
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.)
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 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.
why should i know? i like some beans but not all beans
NO QUESTION, ONLY KNOW.
but…
Plant them.
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.
Probably for statistical curiosity about ratios of different types of beans in the packet. Maybe you’re being shafted on expensive beans?
They must be color-coded.
Oh, sure, it’s fine with Skittles, but do that with people and they get all mad about it.
yeah i have to unmix my skittles its annoying
Gotta make an even mix!
i guess to cook each of the beans just the perfect amount of time
Oh I know.
I had to buy beans at Walmart the other day… I don’t normally get them there. I was looking for white beans. They had this brand in both fhe 15soup pack, and they also had a white bean pack. I saw in the white bean pack, they add “ham flavoring”. I was so grossed out, what is ham flavoring in dried beans? I had to buy the great calue brand. No ham flavoring added.
It is probably just a packet of seasoning. The 15 bean version comes with a seasoning packet inside. They don’t add it to the beans.
Dude, Bean soup cooked with leftover ham is amazing.
Right and this is fine. But adding “ham flavorings” to a bag of dried beans weirded me out.
How the fuck does one obtain the ham essence, and then apply it to dried beans?
It’s vegan, not actually made from ham
Ah, so even grosser, then?
By adding artificial ham flavoring. This stuff lists itself as being vegan. Not sure about the walmart beans though.
The Walmart ones were just plain beans
Same as your cola gets it’s cola flavor, food scientists can synthesize a wide variety of flavors that mimick different things
I can’t ever get over imitation vanilla comes from beaver ass holes.
True. The ham seasoning packed is definitely lacking
Just use real ham
Pigs are incredibly intelligent animals. You shouldn’t eat them.
Don’t kid yourself ChimpChamp22, if a pig ever got the chance he’d eat you and everyone you cared about.
You could say the same about Hannibal Lector, but I wouldn’t eat him. I do eat pork, though.
I mean, yeah. Not even a joke.
I got stuck up a tree by a sounder of like 30 of them when I was a kid. My uncle threw a quarter stick at the base of the tree. They dipped, but the tinnitus is still hanging around nearly 30 years later.
I watched cow chase a grown man up a tree when I was a young teen. Near died laughing at him
Gross. Lots of people are disgusted by actions that worsen the climate catastrophe
Then dismantle the corporate infrastructure that got us here, stop pointing fingers at your fellow man just trying to survive.
Most serious vegans understand something about the differential in agency that comes with even relative poverty. The books that sort of founded the movement take this into account.
And there is a LOT of relative poverty in places you don’t normally expect, especially with housing costs as they are around most of the Capitalist world.
Lol wut. Beans are super cheap. Vegan food is literally cheaper then products from the animal industry that is causing climate catastrophe
Easy to say when you have choices in where to shop. Lack of transportation and odd work schedules destroy that Real Quick. As does rural life, or life in an urban food desert.
There is more to poverty than lack of money - there is also frequently a lack of time away from work for serious food preparation. And idk if you’ve looked at vegan processed food lately but uh… The opposite holds true about their price.
No one can survive on crock pot beans alone.
Once again, 100 companies are responsible for how much of the emissions? Your consumer choices are not a Revolution that will save the world. Consumer choice is a poor substitute for activism that has been sold to you by your Masters.
Where can you not buy beans?
You do know there are places without supermarkets right? Or are you that sheltered to believe that the high Andes have a Piggly wiggly on every other precipice?
At the super market! Not everyone has access to world wide goods shipped in on cargo ships burning fucking bunker fuel in a gigantic two stroke(inefficient and dirtier burning than 4 stroke) by the gallons per mile.
Unless you are growing your own, I would argue you are contributing to the climate crisis more than my ham hocks.
Beans are the most climate efficient source of protein. They are nitrogen fixers. You can buy them anywhere you can buy food. No supermarket needed.
From small town arctic circle to small towns near Antarctica. From Asia to Africa. Everywhere. You will find beans.
Stop thinking about left and right start thinking about up and down.
Up and Down is over, we need to be thinking in and out.
Yeah I’ve got that as a backup plan too.
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.
False advertising. There are way more than 15 beans in that bag!
And it’s not even soup!
We’ve had 15 bean “soup” on rotation for many years. Our recipe is yummy, feeds a large family for several meals, and it’s definitely affordable.
It’s always an odd number with beans.
This, 5 (or 3) bean chilli. Heinz and their 57…
I prefer to mix my beans into prime numbers
Triangle numbers for me (1,3,6,10,15,21,28…). It’s a good mix, but you run out of beans eventually.
Odd numbers are better than even numbers.
Prime numbers are the best odd numbers.
You could say they’re the oddest
TIL 2 is an odd number 😝
It is indeed very strange
it’s odd that way
There is no way these beans all have the same cooking time
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
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.
Just cook them longer. You can’t over-cook beans.
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.
Not universally true but in the context of soup yeah fair point
