How to cook common bean in mess tin in campfire during hikers camp ? Possible?
How to cook common bean in mess tin in campfire during hikers camp? Each night would be in the other location. The challenge is to first soak the beans and then to cook them. Beans should be cooked on little fire, which is quite hard to achieve with campfire.
I thought about soaking beans in mess tin for the night, then on the next campfire boil the water and keep beans in boiling water keeping the right distance from the center of the fire. The water would probably one moment boil intensively and the other will be a few degrees under boiling point.
Is this possible to cook beans in such way? Is there the other way to prepare it?
Best Answer
Assuming you have access to a food dehydrator or an oven that can be trusted at a low setting, you would be better off pre-cooking and then drying the cooked beans. When you get to camp, just add boiling water and wait 15 minutes, and they'll be done.
This would save you the fuel cost of the long cook-time that most beans require, and allow you to season them in ways that would be difficult or impossible on the trail.
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When you get to camp, just add boiling water and wait 15 minutes, and they'll be done. This would save you the fuel cost of the long cook-time that most beans require, and allow you to season them in ways that would be difficult or impossible on the trail. I like this idea?Can you cook beans in the can on a fire?
Pull the can off the fire every minute or two and stir the beans to keep them from burning. Resist the urge to put the can too close to fire to hurry the process. The thin metal of the can transmits heat quickly and burns easily. It's better to heat the can over coals rather than a flame.How do you cook beans on the trail?
Just don't try using it to fry stuff! +1 but remember to not use it for long duration cooking as the chemicals can start to leech into the content of the can (though even then it'd take exposure over a long period to build up to anything approaching dangerous levels in the human body).Campfire Cooking Mess Tin - 3 in 1
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Boiling things is the easiest thing to cook on a fire. Easier even than marshmallows.
The water buffers out the variations in temperature. If the temp drops too low for too long then the beans will take longer to cook but it won't hurt them. If the temperature is too high for too long you may have to add more water.
I think your strategy will work. Keep in mind that it will take hours of boiling. You might consider using lentils- not as traditional but they cook faster and don't need soaking.
Answer 3
You can just soak beans until they are ready to cook. Depending on the bean, it would have variable soak times; but many beans left in water will come to a nice toothsome texture of their own accord (bear in mind they will need to be either sprouted or cooked at the end).
Assuming you have a watertight container for a serving of beans to store them while they soak (I like small pyrex containers for portage), you could also toss them into the skillet or other cooking utensil to boil them. This way you could carry multiple days supply dry, which would make them light and not prone to spoilage but for the quantity soaking.
Frequently, co-ops and health food stores have bulk bins with varieties of dried beans and charts detailing soak times; you could mix your own medley by bagging a few different ones that all have approximately the same soak time.
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