Dry, black beans

[docellis]

There is nothing I can do to make them taste normal. By normal, I mean like how they canned ones taste after cooking them.

I've tried for years to use dry black beans. I LOVE black beans and I eat cans and cans and cans of them. So I would rather buy a giant bag of them. But they taste like crap no matter what I do. Soak them overnight? Crap. Boil? Crap. Combinations of everything you can think of...crap.

[cardinalkarp]

Just keep buying the canned ones then. Are the ones you buy just canned in water or something else?

[Popeye_Card]

But they taste like crap no matter what I do. Soak them overnight? Crap. Boil? Crap. Combinations of everything you can think of...crap.

Maybe you're buying the wrong bag of beans at the store? You have to pay close attention--they place the bags of small black pieces of crap right next to the black beans sometimes.

[omaha_red]

There is nothing I can do to make them taste normal. By normal, I mean like how they canned ones taste after cooking them.

I've tried for years to use dry black beans. I LOVE black beans and I eat cans and cans and cans of them. So I would rather buy a giant bag of them. But they taste like crap no matter what I do. Soak them overnight? Crap. Boil? Crap. Combinations of everything you can think of...crap.

my wife loves them too and is always soaking them overnight and then she
makes this great salad with the pureed beans.. not quite sure what she
does but they are pretty tasty..

[Molly]

There is nothing I can do to make them taste normal. By normal, I mean like how they canned ones taste after cooking them.

I've tried for years to use dry black beans. I LOVE black beans and I eat cans and cans and cans of them. So I would rather buy a giant bag of them. But they taste like crap no matter what I do. Soak them overnight? Crap. Boil? Crap. Combinations of everything you can think of...crap.

my wife loves them too and is always soaking them overnight and then she
makes this great salad with the pureed beans.. not quite sure what she
does but they are pretty tasty..

doc, hubby also makes a black bean salad. He soaks and cooks the beans just enough so they are still crunchy. Then he adds chopped celery and onions.

[docellis]

they never stop being crunchy and I want them to stop being crunchy...

[lukethedrifter]

Are you salting the cooking liquid?

[docellis]

Are you salting the cooking liquid?

No...I haven't owned salt in 10 years...except kosher salt for margaritas...should I add that? I hate the taste of salt (except for maragitas)...

[Arthur Dent]

Are you salting the cooking liquid?

No...I haven't owned salt in 10 years...except kosher salt for margaritas...should I add that? I hate the taste of salt (except for maragitas)...

I'll bet the black beans you get in the can are salted. I don't have any right now, but I checked a can of kidney beans, and it was salted.

[docellis]

Wow...if salting them makes them stop being crunchy I will owe you lunch Arthur. I'm trying it tomorrow.