Did I make that smell?

[Shrek]

While enjoying some of the crockpot of pinto beans I made Tuesday I was also reading all of the "smell" threads and thought of how good they tasted but how my southern breezes today had a twinge reminiscent of downwind of a paper mill and I realized that in my rush to get to my chores I forgot to pour off the soak water and replace it with clean water before placing the crock in the heating frame to cook.

My father always said if you want beans that don't offend, pour off the soak water and replace the water with fresh before cooking but the beans won't taste as robust and if you want robust flavor and don't mind the smell of the musical breezes cook them in the soak water.

What are some of your legume cooking tips, recipes and noxious side effect remedies?

[jwal10]

TBS of vinegar. Only beans I eat are baked and chili....James

[davel745]

Blame it on the dogs

[Harry Chickpea]

Live near a paper mill?

[HOTW]

Have a competition and award the smelly dishrag award.....

[Vosey]

Oh how I miss the smell of the paper mills. Rumsford, Maine, the whole town smelled like a big pot of rank cooked turnips and cabbage. When Portland got all hoity toity they did something to stop the smell from the paper mill.

As for beans, I rinse them. But if I didn't have to leave the house for a job I'd cook them up with the soaking liquid, a much richer taste.

[o&itw]

That's one of the reasons I like Great Northern beans best. Besides the great flavor, just rinse them off, throw them in a pot with some celery, onion, some cured pork, water, salt and pepper and start cooking. You can have them boiling 15 minutes after you take them out of the bag.

For higher octane gas, eat them two days in a row.

[kentuckyhippie]

put a pinch of baking soda in the cooking water. I usally don't bother cause just me and the bull dog live here and he's kinda windy himself LOL

[MO_cows]

A gentleman friend of my mom's told her, you should always put in some vanilla when you make a pot of beans. She had never heard of this, and she asked if it took the gas out of them? No, he said, but it makes it smell like cake.

[Farmer Willy]

Originally Posted by MO_cows

A gentleman friend of my mom's told her, you should always put in some vanilla when you make a pot of beans. She had never heard of this, and she asked if it took the gas out of them? No, he said, but it makes it smell like cake.

If you added butter and popcorn would it smell like a movie theatre?

[Gianni]

Soak, then water change, then cook.

[Shrek]

One of my friends swears adding a full carrot in her beans to capture the gas and then throwing the carrot away prevents windy beans but I think her husband eats the carrot before she can throw it away because he always ends up with enough fuel for a Saturn V launch when she cooks beans.

I watched him drive his bulldog out of the room before.

[farmer9989]

Don't know cause I like the juice that the juice is what has the smell .

[Awnry Abe]

Don't let your spouse ruffle the covers, keep them tight to your sides, and no will know but you.

[DaleK]

Eat them with cabbage so the beans have an excuse

[BigHenTinyBrain]

Originally Posted by Vosey

Oh how I miss the smell of the paper mills. Rumsford, Maine, the whole town smelled like a big pot of rank cooked turnips and cabbage. When Portland got all hoity toity they did something to stop the smell from the paper mill.

As for beans, I rinse them. But if I didn't have to leave the house for a job I'd cook them up with the soaking liquid, a much richer taste.

Rumsford still smells. As does Livermore Falls... all depends on what way the wind is blowing. Driving through Rumsford and Mexico on a cool foggy evening... all steam and smoke and billows almost obscuring the crazy huge stacks and spires and enormous buildings... all belching outrageous, smelly clouds. There's an ice cream place just across the river from one mill... I always wondered what their ice cream must taste like, bathed day and night in paper mill fumes.

[Homesteader]

Beano. Couldn't ever eat beans without 7 tablets of beano with that first bite.

[hippygirl]

Hmmm, maybe I'm an oddball, but I never soak beans when cooking in a crock pot. I "pick" the beans, wash the beans, throw them into the crock pot, make sure they're covered with about 3" of water, add seasonings, and let it go. After a couple of hours, I check the water level and top off to about 2"...perfect beans every time.

[Farmer Willy]

I'm not right. "pick the beans" has an entirely different meaning in horse country.

No, I will not explain.

[Raeven]

I like to pressure cook beans. Takes less time and cooks the beans very thoroughly, especially if they've been stored awhile.

Add a dab of oil to keep the beans from burbling up and plugging the pressure cooker vent.

Rinse well before adding to your recipe. Will help with the dog's problem.