Topic: Blind Baking

[katynewbie]

 :-\

Just thinking...when you use dried beans for this, can you use the beans for cooking afterwards? Not really a cheapskate, but when I am using my own dried beans it may bother me a bit to lose them!

 ;)

[Tulipa]

I keep them in a jar for next time I am baking blind.  I dread to think how old my beans are!  Just remember they will be hot if you use a plastic pot - speaking from experience!!

I always remember them from school - dark brown there from being burnt too many times. :(

[supersprout]

No, the beans will suffer and taste yukk :'(
Good use for beans that get beetled (having baked them first and removed beetles) ::)

[Mrs Ava]

You can always use rice instead of wasting your lovely beans.

[triffid]

Or ask Father Christmas for some of Lakeland's nice (and very permanent!) ceramic 'beans' (which you can also wash, should they get a bit gammy.)

http://www.lakelandlimited.co.uk and search 'ceramic beans'.

I bought an identical tub 12 years+ ago and can't see why TinyTriff shouldn't inherit them in due course!

Nota bene Tulippa's very good point about hot beans and plastic tubs: I pour mine out into an ancient enamel colander to cool.

[Mrs Ava]

ooo ooo, I think it was James Martin who uses coins - 2pences I believe, as he said, being metal, they get nice and hot and give a better result!

[triffid]

Wow!


*makes a note to wash a heap of our hoard of old pennies -- they get used for everything in our house from play-money to weighting curtains and bookends*