The Baked Bean thread

[cyrille]

Got to be boiled until the juice thickens

That'll most likely be just you.

[hallelujah]

Grate cheese on hot beans and let it melt for 2min.

This is not optional. It's a must.

[aging one]

Now this is meant as a joke, but pretty well sums up most Yanks views on British food. Notice there are some great dishes.

[cyrille]

Well, since the American's culinary gift to the world is junk food, nobody is craving their approval.

[BLD]

This is not optional. It's a must.

Grated cheese, a teaspoon of keens curry powder and voila curried beans for the money shot sprinkle crispy bacon on top and its a crowd pleaser.

[Reg Dingle]

Lovely

[MarilynMonroe]

^What is that? Cheese and beans?

The problem with canned baked beans is there is often too much sugar and salt and additives in them.
I do like beans, but I don't eat the baked bean ones.

[cyrille]

I don't eat the baked bean ones.

Do you eat the toast ones?

[DrWilly]

^What is that? Cheese and beans?

If you read the post prior to the picture, perhaps it will make sense.


Or perhaps not.

[cyrille]

If you read the most prior to the picture, perhaps it will make sense.


Or perhaps not.

Indeed.

[Troy]

That's supposed to be cheese?

At least it will stick to the wall...

[Joe 90]

[cyrille]

Oh I must bother watching that, with no information about what tf it is.

[dirk diggler]

No need to get shirty.

[Joe 90]

Outstanding news


The first ever commercial crop of British-grown baked beans have been canned in a Lincolnshire factory.

Specially bred haricot beans designed to grow in the UK climate were harvested in September at a farm in the county.

It is hoped that the baked bean breakthrough will reduce the reliance on imports.

More than two million tins are eaten every day, with all the beans grown in the US, Canada, Ethiopia and China.

The project was developed by scientists at the University of Warwick, who took 12 years to produce the seeds.

A smaller-scale trial to grow them in 2022 failed due to the summer heatwave.

Some health food brands have attempted to market British-grown broad beans as "baked beans", but they have lacked mass appeal due to the difference in taste to haricots.

IMAGE SOURCE,LINSEY SMITH / BBC

Image caption,Farmer Andrew Ward described the production of the finished baked beans as "an absolute milestone"
Farmer Andrew Ward who grew the beans on his farm in Leadenham, watched them being tinned at the Princes factory in Spalding.

He said it was "an absolute milestone".

"As a nation, we import too much food," he said.

"To be able to produce something that we consume in such great quantities in this country, it's just unbelievable."

The canning is a test run and the beans will not be available in supermarkets just yet.

Most of this year's harvest will be used as seeds for the next season's planting to increase stocks of the plants

IMAGE SOURCE,LINSEY SMITH / BBC

Image caption,The haricot beans were bred by scientists at the University of Warwick
Princes produce 264 million tins of beans every year for Branston foods and supermarkets' own-brands.

David McDiarmid from the company said they were "very proud" to have secured the first supply of British-grown haricot beans.

"There is a lot of work going on in the food industry in terms of alternate sources, particularly with one eye on greater self-sufficiency for the UK, or the environmental angle," he said.

He added: "We are not always going to be able to be self-sufficient, tuna isn't going to swim around the North Sea any time soon.

"So we are always going to have global sources of food, but it's important that where there are options, we do produce domestically."

[Molle]

^ Brexit bringing progress to Britain.

[malmomike77]

^ Only because that nasty Mercan Biden hates us and won't sign a trade agreement covering amongst other things essentials like haricot beans in tomato ketchup, necessity is the mother of invention and all that

[Mendip]

Stumpy asked me to keep it under me hat, but he can't source baked beans up north any more and wanted me to take a look around.

Well, I struck gold, and in Korat no less.

Korat Chef have catering cans of Branston Baked Beans, for only 339 Baht!

Stumpy could start bathing in them for that price!

[Topper]

How about a TD Challenge event....

Who can finish a can of those beans the fastest?

[DrWilly]

Yeah, nah!

[Joe 90]

This is the stuff of dreams for Snubbles..

[DrWilly]

What were you googling to find that?

[hallelujah]

What were you googling to find that?

I subscribe to a page on Twitter called "dinner with beans."

No need for Google- the beauty comes right to me every day.