I can’t buy any tinned baked beans anymore. Not since I discovered Jamie Oliver’s BBQ baked beans recipe. A whole different level of deliciousness.
Branston
Crosse & Blackwell
Heinz
Other (please specify)
Doesn't matter which brand as I slather them with tomato ketchup anyway.
I can’t buy any tinned baked beans anymore. Not since I discovered Jamie Oliver’s BBQ baked beans recipe. A whole different level of deliciousness.
You cant beat a large tin of Heinz Beans with mini sausage on some, freshly baked brown bread. It is napalm to the backside though :)
Although I always have to drain some of the "juice" away, otherwise the beans are swimming on my plate :)
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Heinz Beanz with a bit of marmite, on crumpets.
Mmmmmmmm
Branston Reduced Salt & Sugar are by far the best - IF you can find them!
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Heinz have unfortunately gone down the road of Cadbury and now delivers tasteless cheap crap and trade on the past reputation of their brand name and both companies have the nerve and stupidity to wonder why their market share is heading south. It is surprising how good Branson beans are and their brown sauce is really rich and delicious as well!
Cannot believe how much Heinz have dropped quality over the past years, IMHO. Used to be you opened a can and there were those luscious beans, gazing up at me....Now when I open a can of Heinz I just see juice, the beans are maybe 2cm below the surface. And don't start me on the low sugar, low salt ones...devil's spawn.
Now it's Branston or Cross & Blackwell every time.
Baked bean sandwich, now there's a proper sarnie, with maybe some tabasco....
Lunch time now, innit?
Waitrose own for me!
I was brought up with Heinz
I find if you shake them up before opening the tin, and then heat with a knob of butter in the pan they are delicious.
I have a problem with the feel and texture of beans in my mouth, fk why but had it for years. However, I like the taste of baked beans especially the juice. So I mash up my beans with a fork, the best ones for me are Sainsbury own brand or Aldi Corale. I sometimes find that a batch of beans can be a bit hard and the sauce watery. Just need a bit of extra cooking.
Any old el cheapo beans can easily be made deluxe by adding a little olive oil and Italian seasoning when heating them. Alternatively cheese can be added for a different experience. Another option is curry powder for the Indian dish.
Anyone else played around with bean mods?
Yup had cheesy beans on toast yesterday, Heinz of course. Sprinkle grated cheese on the beans on toast, 1 min or less chuck it in the micro wave, oven ready meal, optional sliced ham for a beany croque monsieur type of thing.
Baked Beans and pasta twirls for a lazy mans pasta fazool, jazz it up with chorizo/any sausage.
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I think we'll probably need a Consolidated Baked Beans in the Window thread soon.
If your beans are too watery you're not cooking them long enough and is that flippin bloke doing beans as well now? You'd have thought he's got enough on his plate with late trains and no passengers for his planes.
We started buying then as Lynn is diabetic and if she wanted to eat beans they were the safest option for her. But we both found that we prefer the taste of them to any other, there seems to be less sauce and it's thicker than the normal variety.
Never, EVER, cook beans in a saucepan; fry them on a high heat in a little olive oil. Also, don't serve them ON toast, the toast goes soggy within seconds. Either serve them WITH toast on the side or, better still, ON fried bread - stays crisp and is far more complimentary to the taste.
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
The really interesting question concerning the purchasing of baked beans is as follows.
Once you've decided on the brand and type, why one can rather than another? (Assuming the shelves haven't been nearly emptied by hoarders, and there are multiple undamaged cans available.)
Best wishes,
Bob
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lidl beans are the best
As an aside, has anyone else had the marmite peanut butter? It's sensational.
Bit of a discussion about that stuff here:
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...oured-what-now
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
I’ve just had English mustard in my beans for the first time, bloody marvellous! Brandy on beans too.
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things to shove in your beans
Curry powder ( half a teaspoon)...nice but I could become a major new field for British Gas.
Marmite/Bovril teaspoon nice and fumey.
Smoked paprika ( tiny amount , quarter a teaspoon) , tiny dash of cinnamon and/or tiny piece of star anise , tomato puree squirt , teaspoon of black treacle , soy sauce ...proper cowboy beans
Basil , oregano , crushed garlic clove dash of tabasco , dribble of olive oil and grated parmesan and black pepper at the end optional : sardines or anchovies
chorizo , a few prawns , chopped celery , bay leaf ...bean gumbo ( alternative spam instead of chorizo with a bit of paprika ).
Please note most of the above will turn you into a human blowtorch
Branston all day.
Take one doorstep of white bread and stick it under the grill. When it's toasted turn over and toast the other side.
Spread it with mustard and place a nice thick slice of ham on top.
Then pour beans over and liberally cover in a nice strong cheddar...return to grill until cheese has nicely melted.
Top with a runny fried egg.
Yum.
Heinz but will also do Sainsbury's.
There is one rule, no low sugar or low salt. We’ve tried a them a couple of times and they always fail to deliver the required comfort factor of old skool beans.
I'm not a huge fan of baked beans and generally only have them when enjoying a Scotch pie. There is only Heinz as far as I'm concerned.
A certain amount of ritual is attached, since there is nothing worse than dried out or over cooked beans.
The pie(s) :) go in the oven for 18 minutes.
At 14 minutes, the small tin of Heinz beans goes on. I've usually added a tablespoon or two of water, as I like a runny sauce.
Added to the beans are two glugs of tobasco sauce.
Out come the pies. A cruciform hole is made in the top of each pie and two glugs of Lea & Perrin's is poured into the hole.
The beans are on the side, with a separate squirt of Heinz ketchup.
Anything else is simply wrong.
Incidentally, my Worcestershire sauce is 15 years old and improves each year, but that's another thread.
David
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
15 years, am guessing you don’t cook much!
The last tin of beans I ate was Heinz so I've put that - this was years ago as I tend to chuck a load of curry powder and some sultanas in them so they turn my trousers and any room i'm in into chernobyl which offends the wife for some reason - so beans are off the menu.
We do have some Aldi's own in the cupboard as a last ditch, OMG viral zombie attack apocalypse staple, so we'll be eating those tuesday after next then...
If you store your baked bean cans upside down they will plop out first when you open the tin, making it easier to decant unwanted liquid and no need to fish around in the bottom for rogue legumes.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Branston and 2nd place to Heinz
Appearing on some toast near me in the near future . . .
F.T.F.A.
cheapest with half teaspoon of english mustard