Butter Bean Bake

[kdfrawg]

I was trying to figure out a way to say that, Flo. That was perfect.

[Teresa]

Flo, Teresa and Ole Granny, I have always heard it will help if you count out no more than 239 beans to cook.
Frank

Frank, you count em out and I'll cook em

And I'll eat 'em...

[Ole Granny]

Flo, Teresa and Ole Granny, I have always heard it will help if you count out no more than 239 beans to cook.
Frank

Frank, you count em out and I'll cook em

Man, a person leaves and goes to work and now I get stuck cleaning up the pan.  Guess that is all that's left to do.

[Jo McDonald]

I just logged on to the forum --- I am waiting for a U Tube video to load -- jeepers  - start * Stop * Start * stop  it takes forever ~~~~```

So here I am on the Bean Bake thread.  I did cook a whole scrubbed potato with my ham and beens / or bacon and beans -- and then one day loooonnnnggg  ago I was visiting with my dear friend Della Cox and she told me the REAL SECRET to cooking beans with no after effects was ::: 

Start the washed beans in cold water -- bring to a boil, immediately reduce the heat to a SLOW simmer with the lid set ajar on the pot - NEVER BOIL as the boiling process breaks the skin on the beans and THAT IS WHAT CAUSES THE GAS to form and also, the beans can become "mushy".  Since I have been doing that we never have the problem of having to go where we can be alone with our problems.  Della told me she usually cooked her beans in the oven with the lid set off center, but with our RV the oven is my downfall (not very large) so I do mine on top of the stove, and NEVER NEVER  with a tight lid and NEVER with a full boil, only a slow simmer.  Try it, I think you will all be pleasantly surprised, and pleased with the result. 

[MarineMom]

I was once told that if you soak them over night before cooking the gas would go away but it did not work then about 2 years ago I started doing beans in the crock pot and that seems to have eliminated the problem

[Teresa]

Well I am the queen when it comes to "Bean Wind" so I will try anything.. LOL LOL LOL

[Janet Harrington]

eliminated the problem

That is the problem.  Elimination.