As my dear old granny used to sing to me when I was a wee lad, "Beans, beans - good for your heart; the more you eat the more you fart". She often told me I was full of beans, but I was only 51% beans. Now I'm closer to 100%.
Thank you, Mr Keef! I've often wondered if there was a simple way of making BB at home - obviously "simple" depends on the interpretation of the doer! In NZ we were brought up on Watties baked beans, now unfortunately just a section of the Hynze Gloncommeration. They say the recipe is unchanged, but us has us doubts on that score!
Sorry Heinz, but we've been buying Branston for years - we think the sauce is better! The Lidl ones are, according to my wife, OK too. But I like the idea of making my own because you can control the ingredients that go into them. Also, apparently, they can be frozen, reducing the longevity advantage that tinned ones have.
Ey up our lad our goer Keef. Finally prayers answered! I said in your Jacket Potato video we needed homemade beans to give it an extra touch of flavour and freshness. Who needs a tin of expensive Heinz beans when you can whip up a batch of homemade magic? Get ready to elevate your beans game to 'bloomin' brilliant' status!
Love hearing your take on the classic! When no-one is looking, I sneak in lardons of speck, pancetta, or guancale! Not too small, no thinner than quarter of an inch (and about an inch long). (and if my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike!)
True facts here - my favourite beans are the Co-Op Honest Value brand. 27p a tin, but they send me 25p off tinned veg voucher every other week, so 2p for a tin of beans. And they're 52% haricot. Make your choices.
I used to love beans on toast, but find commercial baked have gone seriously downhill in recent years, both on taste and contents. More sauce, less beans, every time I open a tin. I've actually stopped buying them. So thanks for this Keef. Just checked - I've got everything I need - beans on toast tonight.
Looks like I gotta try to make a huge batch of this once! Here in Germany, you sadly can't get Baked Beans for any reasonable price. Cheapest I can get my hands on are currently about 1.45€ per tin - and those you can't get everywhere. Heinz Beanz are more easily available, though absurdly pricey, with 2,49€ per tin..
Norma or Lidl in Germany have a pack of four tins of Heinz beans on offer from time to time at a reasonable price, although the last time they had gone up from about €3 to €4.44. I have friends who love Netto's baked beans, but I've never tried them myself.
Hi Keith, Happy Easter 🐣 to you and Mrs Keith cook. Weirdly, I just had beans on toast ha ha. I really need to get one of those Magic knives must really cut time with one of those ha ha
If you shop at Tesco, which I know you do, try the beans from the same manufacturer as the flour you bought a while ago in a video. I buy their products all the time...*Stockwell*, cheap and good, beetroot and piccalilli, any of their products are amazing prices, it shames the big brands.
Here’s an interesting question: why does tomato soup and the tomato sauce that comes with beans, spaghetti, ravioli all look orange in colour, but tinned, chopped tomatoes and purée have a much more reddish colour?
Some people have very elaborate baked bean recipes with tons of brown sugar, bacon, God only knows what. It's all very nice but I'm not going to eat that on a regular basis. Very often way too sweet. I'm used to UK baked beans, which I buy in the US as "Vegetarian Baked Beans". That's what they're called for some reason. They're also on the expensive side because they price them the same as the elaborate US-style baked beans and, you know, if it's "vegetarian" it just costs more. I guess my point is that it's almost worth making my own baked beans because there's no 35p alternative. Although maybe I should check Aldi.
If I was going to this much trouble I'd probably add some bacon or suasages to the recipe. Otherwise I'd just open a can of beans. Fun recipe, though 👍
