A running debate regarding baked beans

[GadgetGuy]

My favorite way to doctor them up is with sautéed onions in butter!!

 

[Morning Glory]

My favorite way to doctor them up is with sautéed onions!!

That is a good idea.

 

[rascal]

I can't imagine beans straight out of the can without doctoring them.Especially adding heat!

I love them like that.

Russ

 

[Yorky]

Cooked on the hob, low and slow with a dollop of "Chop Sauce". Branston are my current favourites although I occasionally buy Heinz (a little more expensive here).

 

[epicuric]

On the stove every time. It only takes a couple of minutes so what's the need to microwave? Plus, as others have said you can adjust the flavour, seasoning with pepper, mustard, a dollop of home made ketchup, Marmite, whatever. As for those little plastic pots. There is enough plastic floating round the oceans as it is. At least the cans get recycled.

 

[CraigC]

Bacon fried in a saute pan until crisp then removed to cool and crumble. Chopped onions and jalapeno cooked in the bacon fat with minced garlic until fragrant. Then the beans. Eyeball dark brown sugar, molasses, ketchup, yellow mustard and Worcestershire. Add the bacon back in. Transfer to a baking dish or foil deep dish pan and bake at 325F until nice and bubbly with a slight crust on top. That is the basic way I doctor canned baked beans. You can add pulled pork or swap BBQ sauce for the ketchup. Cowboy beans are a different animal.

 

[Morning Glory]

Bacon fried in a saute pan until crisp then removed to cool and crumble. Chopped onions and jalapeno cooked in the bacon fat with minced garlic until fragrant. Then the beans. Eyeball dark brown sugar, molasses, ketchup, yellow mustard and Worcestershire. Add the bacon back in. Transfer to a baking dish or foil deep dish pan and bake at 325F until nice and bubbly with a slight crust on top. That is the basic way I doctor canned baked beans. You can add pulled pork or swap BBQ sauce for the ketchup. Cowboy beans are a different animal.

This is a dish in itself!

 

[Toffeeapple]

I don't recall the last time I ever heated baked beans! I use Branston beans and add Henderson's Relish - a Yorkshire thin sauce similar to Worcestershire sauce.

 

[Yorky]

I did used to like the Heinz Beanz with pork sausages. They're not available here (AFAIK) so I make do with "Old Oak" hotdog sausages each chopped into three.

 

[rascal]

I did used to like the Heinz Beanz with pork sausages. They're not available here (AFAIK) so I make do with "Old Oak" hotdog sausages each chopped into three.

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We get the beans with wee sausages all in the can. I love them with an egg or two on top.

Russ

 

[CraigC]

I used to love these beans, Big John's Beans N Fixins. It was a two can combination, one with the beans and one with the fixins. I believe they are still available on line. Our go to canned beans are Bush's original and black beans.

https://www.google.com/search?q=big...BAgAEAE&biw=1024&bih=615#imgrc=kttfqvut_HLLrM:

 

[Mewmew]

I'd think the concern with heating baked beans in an office microwave is exploded beans on the inside of the microwave!

Have you ever microwaved porridge? Far more mess than baked beans..! Egads..!

 

[Mewmew]

I've done both, but I don't think there's that much difference in the taste.

 

[Morning Glory]

I've done both, but I don't think there's that much difference in the taste.

I used to always microwave porridge - it works very well. i don't eat it very often these days though.

 

[Markus-O]

I add sauteed onion, a dash of BBQ sauce and a small jar of Vienna sausages.