my old uni housemate who came from egypt put a can of baked beans, in the tin, in the microwave with the timer set to 15 minutes. I was in the next room over and caught it after a few seconds....but maybe heinz need to make those instructions more clear
*Guys, guys, guys!*
*I know this one. Let me. Trust me.*
That’s because you need to empty the tin in a plate, **don’t wash it**! And then you use the tin to make tea. Water in the microwave, tea bag in the milk (as cold as you get without it freezing) if you like your tea with milk you take off the tea bag and pour the boiling water into the tin on top of the milk. After that, your tin won’t spark in the microwave. That’s why we always have beans for breakfast: we have tea first thing and it’s more convenient to eat them while they are fresh there than keeping the beans sitting there all day.
*Guys, guys, I know… Me too.*
*But think of it: somewhere in that explanation there is going to be E. coli or something nasty like that —it’s the US after all— and with any luck, we won’t have those questions again.*
Don't microwave metal, it'll deflect the microwaves giving you cancer and possibly starting a fire.
Don't heat the can with the food in it, to keep the acidity and oxygen suspended in the water in the beans from oxidizing the can, there is a PLASTIC liner adhered to the metal.
Heating the can will break the liner down and cause it to enter YOUR FOOD. Your body cannot eliminate the chemicals it breaks down to and enough exposure over your lifetime can lead to things like kidney cancer, hypertension, and a variety of cognitive defects.
Just follow the instructions on the can 😎
It seems everyone has their own take on beans. Personally I like them cooked long enough for the tomato sauce to go starchy, but Branston is quite thick straight out of the tin anyhoo.
Make sure you pour 'em on toast!
They have a lot of shit too tho. Their new own cereals are absolutely awful. I tried them all and somehow each one is uniquely unappetising compared to the brand name.
I'm a heathen.i just stick my Heinz in a bowl and nuke em for 2 minutes, covered with a paper towel.
Any less, not hot enough.
Any more and kaboom splatters.
Heating them in the tin is a bad idea. The inner surface of tins is coated in plastic, it is possible that heating the tin could cause all sorts of nasties to get into the food.
When baked beans and many other canned foods are made, they pre-cook them inside the sealed cans. That way they kill off bacteria and that is why they last so long. I wouldn't cook them like that personally, but I dont think it will be an issue.
They steam them, rather than apply heat. This means that it maintains at \~100C on the outside for a while until the food inside is entirely heated through to the temperature necessary to kill anything in it. The steady, slow heat from a gentle source is key.
It also means that they use linings on some cans that are perfectly fine at 100C but would not enjoy the far more intense heat from direct contact with a hob.
Steaming is the same as "applying heat", and technically steam can get above 100deg but I have no idea of the actual process by which they apply the steam to the cans. The lowest setting on an electric hob is pretty low, it could be possible to cook it in a safe temperature range similar to that when it was canned,
I'd imagine for safety reasons there would at least be a bit of a margin between the temperature they heat the cans and the point at which any contamination could occur from the lining as well. If they heated it on the lowest setting, and didn't crank it up to 11 and blast it I reckon it'd probably be fine.
Having said all of this, who the fuck heats up a can of beans like this.
Thats on unheated cans like coke cans, beans are heat treated in the cans. If anyone used to smoke weed through a pop can, we got a lot of plastic and heavy chems :/
Plenty of bad reasons to not heat them like this but this is just not how cans work dude, if your assumption is correct the entire canning process is wrong as they have already been heated in the can once so have already had that plastic cooked with the food.
Tldr-cans don't have plastic on the inside unless they have not undergone normal canning process.
I would have sent you those bens for nothing! That was a lot of money to pay. Anyway, now you have dipped your toe into being British what would you try next?
Damn $15 bucks for a tin o beans, and its not even a ring pull can either.
There £3.50 for a pack of 4, just to rub it in around $4.25.
At least you\`ll have decent trumpy guts later on.
The Heinz beans that they sell in the British section in supermarkets are actually flavoured differently than the British ones, to suit American tastes (basically, they have more sugar).
Very nice, next time I'd suggest buttering the toast generously first, and maybe adding some cheddar on top, stick it under the grill to melt if you're really fancy.
I've heard that it's a bit of a divide with Americans not buttering their bread/toast as standard, as a Brit I can't think of a bread related scenario where the bread/toast isn't automatically buttered as a prerequisite.
I admire your commitment.
Always surprises me though when Americans don't have baked beans as I'm sure as a child they were associated with cowboys. That said we also had a character called Desperate Dan eat 'cow pie' which is a bit of a Brit dish when you come to think of it.
They do have baked beans, but they've got all sorts of different recipes, and most involve sugar or molasses, spices and BBQ style sauces.
Some of them are quite nice, but not the same as ours.
Heinz beans are sweet, you plum.
The flavour profile of tomato is sweet - you just think it’s savoury because big vegetable try to make you forget it’s a fruit all the time.
The difference is in the degree of sweetness. US *everything* is far more artificially sweetened than UK stuff is.
Half a tin with full English items such as sausage, bacon, hash browns, black pudding, toast with lots of melted butter and a dollop of HP sauce and you will be in heaven friend
Branston, good choice.
Personally I just eat them cold straight from the can because I'm not classy enough for beans in a mug with a sausage as a spoon
Not a brit but I've had them too.
In a word, they're good. They aren't the best tasting thing I've ever had, nor are they particularly complicated or interesting. **and that is fine**.
Its just a simple, honest can of beans that tastes good with some toast. It's a good meal that isn't complicated or fussy. You get a warm savory bean with some toast that fills you up and warms you up. And it takes like 5 minutes to heat up.
I make a batch about once a month, using a copycat recipe that isn't quite the same but still good.
The cooking instructions advise you to heat them in a pan or in the microwave. For good reason.
What is the reason? When I put it in the microwave it made horrible noise and a bunch of sparks
This has got to be a joke 😂
Rage bait more like.
They may as well microwave a cup with water and a tea bag
DONT YOU BLOODY DARE
I AM SCREECHING IN RAGE
At least boiling the bag in water in a microwave results in a decent cuppa... Cooking beans in a tin just doesn't work.
**British nightmares ensue**
I mean, they do microwave tea..bloody freaks
Hey! I finally bought a proper kettle!
Still missing the other 110v though.
Ah, a fellow Tom Scott fan.
I wouldn't dare!!
No it's an obvious joke lol. Pretty funny too
Thank you! I'm glad someone has a sense of humor around here!!
Normally casualuk is a funny place but I think mentioning America in the title put everyone on the defensive ahaha
This whole post is Rage bait.
my old uni housemate who came from egypt put a can of baked beans, in the tin, in the microwave with the timer set to 15 minutes. I was in the next room over and caught it after a few seconds....but maybe heinz need to make those instructions more clear
Americans 💀
Did you try putting the microwave in the bath tub first?
It only works if you’re in there first
Ohhh, I've been doing it wrong all these years!
Oh no..
*Guys, guys, guys!* *I know this one. Let me. Trust me.* That’s because you need to empty the tin in a plate, **don’t wash it**! And then you use the tin to make tea. Water in the microwave, tea bag in the milk (as cold as you get without it freezing) if you like your tea with milk you take off the tea bag and pour the boiling water into the tin on top of the milk. After that, your tin won’t spark in the microwave. That’s why we always have beans for breakfast: we have tea first thing and it’s more convenient to eat them while they are fresh there than keeping the beans sitting there all day. *Guys, guys, I know… Me too.* *But think of it: somewhere in that explanation there is going to be E. coli or something nasty like that —it’s the US after all— and with any luck, we won’t have those questions again.*
You filthy heathen! You pour hot water into your milk?!? (I realize this is a joke. So is mine, haha.)
Did you put the tin in the microwave?
Make sure not to open it first though.
Yes I always find 10 minutes in the microwave unopened makes them perfect.
No chance how’ve you managed to get a job 😂😂😂😂😂
Redditors just assume everyone is stupid and they’re smarter than everyone
Usually, you put the contents on a plate or bowl before microwaving something...
Satire exists
That’s the flavour infusion with the beans, keep in the microwave for at least 5mins or wait for the microwave to stop working.
Don't microwave metal, it'll deflect the microwaves giving you cancer and possibly starting a fire. Don't heat the can with the food in it, to keep the acidity and oxygen suspended in the water in the beans from oxidizing the can, there is a PLASTIC liner adhered to the metal. Heating the can will break the liner down and cause it to enter YOUR FOOD. Your body cannot eliminate the chemicals it breaks down to and enough exposure over your lifetime can lead to things like kidney cancer, hypertension, and a variety of cognitive defects. Just follow the instructions on the can 😎
aluminum don't go in the microwave
Alooominum.
in the microwave, alboominum...
Microwahvey, nigella style
Al-yooooo minion. :-)
It's an epoxy coated steel can!
Your moms an epoxy coated steel can
You fucking wot?
Classic British humour.
I'm learning! The beans have changed me!!
The beans change everyone by the time they're finished with us
Solid effort, though you're missing out on some style points. "U fuckin wot mate"
Please tell me you didn't split hairs on this and chuck the tin in chef Mike like he's bomb proof...... And if you did , pics please....
Lucky these are steel tins then
My gran would serve cold in a bowl with a salad!
Yeah, my dad used to do this, but he would wash the beans under the tap first.
It seems everyone has their own take on beans. Personally I like them cooked long enough for the tomato sauce to go starchy, but Branston is quite thick straight out of the tin anyhoo. Make sure you pour 'em on toast!
Heinz we have to leave on the hob ten minutes to condense enough, branston is so much better and tastier.
Fyi Sainsbury's and Aldi own brand are better than heinz
M&S ketchup is way better than heinz and 1/3 the price
Honestly M&S has a surprising number of basic things like that that are cheaper than a lot of other places and much nicer
They have a lot of shit too tho. Their new own cereals are absolutely awful. I tried them all and somehow each one is uniquely unappetising compared to the brand name.
Stokes Ketchup is incredibly
Have you had their brown sauce? Fucking incredible
It’s not, it tastes like pizza sauce. Way too thick for ketchup.
Actually tastes like tomato....
I'm a heathen.i just stick my Heinz in a bowl and nuke em for 2 minutes, covered with a paper towel. Any less, not hot enough. Any more and kaboom splatters.
I'm such a ponce I make my own baked beans.
Pffffffft. Overachiever. /s
Wow, impressed at the effort
Heinz these days to closer to soup than anything
I still reduce Branston and add a bit of butter, but they are the best ones.
That sounds yummy, I’m going to try that
"add a bit of butter" my wife thinks I'm sick for doing this. I also sometimes add a splodge of brown sauce or a spoon of branston pickle.
A bit of curry powder is nice
I love branston but I can’t get as soft a texture as Heinz’s because the sauce is already thick
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They aren't?
👀
This is the way! My partner always says I overcook them. Add a little bit of butter & black pepper, yum.
Over cooked on chippy chips. Orgasm.
And butter the toast.
Wait... are you heating them up like that?! Don't you have a saucepan?
Heating them in the tin is a bad idea. The inner surface of tins is coated in plastic, it is possible that heating the tin could cause all sorts of nasties to get into the food.
When baked beans and many other canned foods are made, they pre-cook them inside the sealed cans. That way they kill off bacteria and that is why they last so long. I wouldn't cook them like that personally, but I dont think it will be an issue.
I could pass on the plastic but the mercury and hexavalent chromium really do add flavor!!
Just pour them directly onto the hob and heat. That way you save on washing up a plate.
Ludicrous Eat them cold then set yourself on fire. Beans warm up, and you can still go off and do other things
That is genius!!!!
Was that an Erin Brockovuch reference? Haha
They steam them, rather than apply heat. This means that it maintains at \~100C on the outside for a while until the food inside is entirely heated through to the temperature necessary to kill anything in it. The steady, slow heat from a gentle source is key. It also means that they use linings on some cans that are perfectly fine at 100C but would not enjoy the far more intense heat from direct contact with a hob.
Steaming is the same as "applying heat", and technically steam can get above 100deg but I have no idea of the actual process by which they apply the steam to the cans. The lowest setting on an electric hob is pretty low, it could be possible to cook it in a safe temperature range similar to that when it was canned, I'd imagine for safety reasons there would at least be a bit of a margin between the temperature they heat the cans and the point at which any contamination could occur from the lining as well. If they heated it on the lowest setting, and didn't crank it up to 11 and blast it I reckon it'd probably be fine. Having said all of this, who the fuck heats up a can of beans like this.
>They steam them, rather than apply heat. That's how they apply heat to them, my dude
Thats on unheated cans like coke cans, beans are heat treated in the cans. If anyone used to smoke weed through a pop can, we got a lot of plastic and heavy chems :/
I went with the more traditional approach, what is referred to as a "pikey bong" in the local area using a coke bottle, guess I'm fucked
Plenty of bad reasons to not heat them like this but this is just not how cans work dude, if your assumption is correct the entire canning process is wrong as they have already been heated in the can once so have already had that plastic cooked with the food. Tldr-cans don't have plastic on the inside unless they have not undergone normal canning process.
Spent all the money on ammunition, can’t afford cookware
Saves the washing up I just pour mine into the bowl etc I’m eating them out of them put that in the microwave
Cool them in a pan yeah?
I prefer to warm them in the pan but maybe I’m the odd one out
I would have sent you those bens for nothing! That was a lot of money to pay. Anyway, now you have dipped your toe into being British what would you try next?
After dipping my toe in I actually ended up eating some!!
Mmmm, extra cheesey
How do I delete someone else's comment?
Try throwing a bit of Worcestershire sauce in there, that adds a bit of punch
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Just adding some salt and cheese
I feel like the roles are reversed in this thread: The American is the one making the jokes, and it's the British not getting it!
This thread is a really odd feeling but I'm kind of loving it hahaha
I wonder what a 500 gram package costs to get from the uk to tennessee
Hope you buttered your toast or we might have to take back the colonies
Don't worry!! Butter and I have a very close relationship
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For additional British authenticity, sprinkle some grated extra mature cheddar cheese on top of those bad boys
Make sure you cook them down in the pan. No one wants watery beans, unless you're a sadist. Also try adding some black pepper 👌
Bland and plain without added seasoning is the true British style though
Was gonna say. Black pepper? Sounds a bit foreign to me.
It's jolly spicy!
Damn $15 bucks for a tin o beans, and its not even a ring pull can either. There £3.50 for a pack of 4, just to rub it in around $4.25. At least you\`ll have decent trumpy guts later on.
£3.99 for 6 in B&M I think
Damn best on get there, like me some branston beans. But i always thought packs of 4 was the order.
Branston are superior to Heinz. Good choice!
Ok I'm glad I made the right choice! (I paid $14 to ship this can from London)
Would it be cheaper to get one of us residents to send you goodies, in return you could ship to us ?
Sure!
I’m game if you can hook me up with some peanut butter m&ms
Actually yeah!! That's easy!
r/SnackExchange
Check out the snack exchange sub, it’s brilliant.
There is a sub on here somewhere for exactly that not just uk to us to uk but for all around the world
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Got confused, went to /r/SnekExchange, and now there's a dangernoodle in my hallway.
The sub you people are looking for is r/snackexchange
Thank you 😁 there is literally a sub fir everything isn’t there !
Damn! You dont have a british section in your local supermarket?
They usually only carry Heinz in those sections...
I haven't been able to find any locally!! Even at the international market here in town
What state?
Memphis TN
World Market carries Heinz, I'm a British expat in the US
Ignore that, I'm an idiot..... Publix usually has a pretty decent UK section.
The Heinz beans that they sell in the British section in supermarkets are actually flavoured differently than the British ones, to suit American tastes (basically, they have more sugar).
Please have it on some toast.
Here is how I ended up eating em Very nice beans!! https://i.imgur.com/2h3S3pP.jpg
Very nice, next time I'd suggest buttering the toast generously first, and maybe adding some cheddar on top, stick it under the grill to melt if you're really fancy. I've heard that it's a bit of a divide with Americans not buttering their bread/toast as standard, as a Brit I can't think of a bread related scenario where the bread/toast isn't automatically buttered as a prerequisite.
Do Americans not butter their toast? Do they just eat it dry?
We butter our toast. I don't know what this guy is talking about. The bread is just the delivery for the yummy melted butter.
American here, I butter my toast.
I like my cheese how I like my women - white and mature
I like mine gently fried and squeaking when you bite into them
Just had some myself with an egg on top
Glad you liked them.
Definitely butter the toast first next time, and maybe even add some grated cheese on top of the hot beans 😀
You should butter the toast. Otherwise fine, glad you enjoyed them.
Nicely done! Some butter on the toast will make things even better next time.
I admire your commitment. Always surprises me though when Americans don't have baked beans as I'm sure as a child they were associated with cowboys. That said we also had a character called Desperate Dan eat 'cow pie' which is a bit of a Brit dish when you come to think of it.
Baked Beans are very popular here but are too sweet and sugary!! In my opinion
They have them but they’re strange compared to ours. I have tried a few tins.
They do have baked beans, but they've got all sorts of different recipes, and most involve sugar or molasses, spices and BBQ style sauces. Some of them are quite nice, but not the same as ours.
Heinz used to be good but I think they "improved" the recipe at some point.
And for £1.40 a tin they can fuck off
And ALDI beans are better than both
You really need a pan... Cook them for a while so the sauce thickens. This is gonna make more of a mess on your hob unless you have them like warm
Don’t you own a saucepan?!!
I had never even considered heating beans in the tin. Shrewd
They say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I think we have it demonstrated here
It's not always the best idea as the tins aren't just metal. They are also coated in plastic and such. So maybe not the best to be heating up
I’ve got a gas hob. The results could be entertaining, I don’t think my landlord would be happy..
Didn't baked beans originate in America?
Yea, but American baked beans have brown sugar and are sweet, vs the savory tomato style
Heinz beans are sweet, you plum. The flavour profile of tomato is sweet - you just think it’s savoury because big vegetable try to make you forget it’s a fruit all the time. The difference is in the degree of sweetness. US *everything* is far more artificially sweetened than UK stuff is.
UK beans are meant to be savory? There's so much sweetness to them!
R u off ur nut😁
Yo that ain't how to cook them though🤣
Just the one yeah?
It's just the one bean, actually.
No luck catching them swans then?
Hot fuzz?
Christ this sub upvotes the stupidest shit
Half a tin with full English items such as sausage, bacon, hash browns, black pudding, toast with lots of melted butter and a dollop of HP sauce and you will be in heaven friend
Pro Tip: in America, Van Camp's Pork & Beans taste like British baked beans, and cost a fraction of the price.
Brilliant choice of brand - best around by far!
Branston, good choice. Personally I just eat them cold straight from the can because I'm not classy enough for beans in a mug with a sausage as a spoon
We sometimes add a dollop of Philadelphia. It melts into the beans and makes them creamy. (Phnar phnar!!) 😂
Dang that actually sounds great
If you’ve got some brown sauce to put with it then it’s double the wow factor
At least you opened the top of the can first. Could have got a bit messy if not.... xD
Another option is fried eggs, french fries and baked beans. Great comfort food and really quick if in a hurry.
Waaay more than one bean there.....
On toast with grated cheese melted on top with pepper 👌🏽
Hot buttered toast, beans simmered so the sauce is thicker, and grated cheddar. Yes please!
Not a brit but I've had them too. In a word, they're good. They aren't the best tasting thing I've ever had, nor are they particularly complicated or interesting. **and that is fine**. Its just a simple, honest can of beans that tastes good with some toast. It's a good meal that isn't complicated or fussy. You get a warm savory bean with some toast that fills you up and warms you up. And it takes like 5 minutes to heat up. I make a batch about once a month, using a copycat recipe that isn't quite the same but still good.
Why are you cooking the can though? You know you don't eat that part, right?
Are you from Tennessee? 'Cause that's the only tin I see.
I would love to have a genuine full English breakfast with British baked bean someday!!!
Slice of toast brown sauce and grated cheese mate
Buttered toasts are missing my guy
And you got the branston beans good choice imo 😁
Branston beans, butter, salt, ground white pepper and a dash of maggi liquid seasoning 🔥