BEANS! BEANS & MORE BEANS
FASTER COOKING
From: BCVojak@worldnet.att.net (Bill Vojak)
Newsgroups: misc.survivalism
Subject: Beans - info summary
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 19:31:49
A few weeks ago I mentioned that I would like to add beans
to my food supplies, but was worried about the time/fuel
required to cook beans. I got 3 suggestions that all seemed
to make quite a bit of sense.
1) Cook a weeks worth (or sevral days worth) of beans at once
thus reducing the overall fuel required per day.
2) Buy the pre boiled, dried beans like those found in the
instant cups-O-soup available at the grocery store. These
will cook in a matter of minutes. I noticed that places
like Walton's have a item called "par-boiled" beans. Does
anybody know if these are the cup-O-soup types of beans????
3) And the most unique suggestion. . . . Get a GOOD thermos
jar. Put your beans in water and heat up the mixture until
it is boiling. Then pour everything into the thermos jar and
seal it, and wrap it in a heavy towel or two. Wait several hours.
Result = cooked beans with little energy used. I'd guess a
wide mouth jar would be easiest to use.
Seems like a good way to cook lots of things!
Bill Vojak
BCVojak@worldnet.att.net