Never cooking these bastard beans again • Non-Gaming • Food • Eurogamer.net

Teeth 11 May 2006 21:20:40 7,987 posts
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Tins from now on. Kidney beans, I'm talking about.

The packet said half an hour, and like an idiot I believed it. You're supposed to soak them overnight, boil them for fifteen minutes, then simmer them for 30 more or until soft. They've been on there about an hour now and are still pretty tough.

I can't see a reason to do this, personally. The money you save going to packet beans is surely offset by the energy that goes into cooking the bastard things, let alone the mental anguish suffered during the cooking process.

Pike 11 May 2006 21:22:53 13,459 posts
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They taste better if you cook them yourself, though.

THFourteen 11 May 2006 21:23:51 54,987 posts
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tinned beans ftw

tourlord 11 May 2006 21:25:31 2,600 posts
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Tinned kidney beans are horrible, but if they're just going into chilli, then you can easily mask the plastic-y taste with shitloads of chilli powder.

...and cocoa powder, strangely enough.

Teeth 11 May 2006 21:28:00 7,987 posts
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I think it was because I didn't cover the pan, I was cooking them in an open pan.

Cocoa powder huh? That's a good one, I will definitely try that. I've been using soy sauce... it's pretty good.

THFourteen 11 May 2006 21:28:49 54,987 posts
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gotta cover the pan

cocoa in chilli?

tourlord 11 May 2006 21:29:16 2,600 posts
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Seriously, it makes chilli really rich and tasty. You have to offset the chocolateyness with spicyness though, so it only really works if you like your chilli hot.

Mmm... Chilli

Teeth 11 May 2006 21:30:34 7,987 posts
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I do but I'm not allowed to eat chillis at the moment because Mrs. Teeth thinks it aggravates my hands. So I'm doing one for her and one sans chillis for me

/am cry

tourlord 11 May 2006 21:32:39 2,600 posts
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What, do you get punchy when you eat spicy food?

/flies off into a chilli-induced rage

Stickman 11 May 2006 21:34:43 29,986 posts
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He chops chillis then gets a bit frisky with Mrs Teeth!

IT BUUUUUUUUUURNS!

Teeth 11 May 2006 21:35:41 7,987 posts
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Yeah, well, I've sealed them under a lid now so they can stop mocking me.

It seems that spicy food makes my hands itch at the moment. All the skin fell off my hands recently; I believe it's some kind of dermatitis.

MrWorf 11 May 2006 21:37:28 64,187 posts
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Kidney BEans + Pregnangt Lady = Seperate Beds

You sir, are a brave man

ProfessorLesser 11 May 2006 21:38:48 19,693 posts
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Stickman wrote:
He chops chillis then gets a bit frisky with Mrs Teeth!

IT BUUUUUUUUUURNS!

:-D

Teeth, try not washing your hands so often (if you do). Or air-dry them somehow, but that would require a cool-flow hair dryer or low power hand-dryer, which I doubt you own.

Teeth 11 May 2006 21:51:03 7,987 posts
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Hooray, getting there now.

Razz... she's not pregnant! Not that I know.

Prof, yeah, I don't know what the actual cause is, certainly the skin's dryness is not a factor when the condition arises; only after the top layer of skin has falen off do I get the dryness.

MrWorf 11 May 2006 21:56:10 64,187 posts
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Teeth wrote:
Razz... she's not pregnant! Not that I know.

/whistles

/jumps in taxi

DRIVE!

Teeth 11 May 2006 21:56:44 7,987 posts
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;_;

Teeth 11 May 2006 22:02:11 7,987 posts
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I've been cooking this meal for over three hours now. The beans still aren't done. I'm in a foul mood.