:-\
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!
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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. :(
No, the beans will suffer and taste yukk :'(
Good use for beans that get beetled (having baked them first and removed beetles) ::)
You can always use rice instead of wasting your lovely beans.
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.
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!
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*