# Is there a Way to Make Your Beans Fartless? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 6, 2000, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-make-your-beans-fartless/40017 "2000-11-06T22:22:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-make-your-beans-fartless/40017/21 "2000-11-07T04:31:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wildest Bill \* > \*\*BTW do all beans make you toot or just pintos and baked beans? Green beans don’t how come? \*\* 'Cause Green Beans are so refined, don’cha know? But really, this is because in a green bean, the majority of what you are eating is actually the pod of the bean. The actual “bean” part of a green bean/string bean is very small and underdeveloped. Beans don’t make me fart, btw. This is because a. I eat a lot of beans, and b. I follow preparation guidelines like those outlined above. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-make-your-beans-fartless/40017/22 "2000-11-07T05:16:16Z")
Yeeeeeah **Ike** **John Thorne** is _God_! Or, at least, he writes better than God 🙂 I just got my fourth book by him. And, assuming he still publishes a newletter, that could be my Christmas present to myself. Didn’t you bring up the lard question recently? Or was that someone else? Thorne touches on lard in one of his books. ---
**Author:** ![robinh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@robinh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinh)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-make-your-beans-fartless/40017/23 "2000-11-07T14:15:16Z")
My husband has had excellent results with Beano. If you find a store that sells the larger sized bottles it is less expensive. (The small bottles are not a good deal.) And slowly introducing beans into your diet will be much easier on your digestive system. There is an herb called epazote that is often used in Mexican bean dishes because it is supposed to reduce gas. In India some people chew on fennel seeds as an aid to digestion. Chammomile tea may help as well. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-make-your-beans-fartless/40017/24 "2000-11-07T14:16:42Z")
Holy Moses! I’ve been pushing John Thorne for YEARS…including right here on the message board…and you are the FIRST PERSON I’ve come across who’s ever read him! And that includes the several people I’ve presented with SERIOUS PIG (in bloody HARDCOVER, yet) as gifts. Best food writer since M.F.K. Fisher, IMHO. I got my copy of POT ON THE FIRE: FURTHER EXPLOITS OF A RENEGADE COOK the minute it rolled off the presses last month. I’ve been subscribing to Thorne’s newsletter, SIMPLE COOKING for the past several years, so a lot of the essays in it were familiar to me…but it was worth it to have his piece on Vietnamese sandwiches in hardcover! The newsletter is worth having if only for Thorne’s fiction series, “Hanging Out At the No-Name: A Diner Story (with Recipes).” His publisher should definitely collect THOSE into a book! I still think SERIOUS PIG is his best book, but there’s a lot to be said for SIMPLE COOKING and OUTLAW COOK, too. Everyone else…read John Thorne immediately! He’ll change your %@#%# life. At least in the kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-make-your-beans-fartless/40017/25 "2000-11-07T15:51:08Z")
I know they made a fartless bean years ago but I have forgot which one it is. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-make-your-beans-fartless/40017/26 "2000-11-07T20:59:19Z")
The secret is in the recipe. You should count the beans and use _exactly_ 239 beans. Use one more bean and they will be too farty (two forty?) har har 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-make-your-beans-fartless/40017/27 "2000-11-09T00:10:26Z")
There is also an herb called epazote which is supposed to reduce the gas factor in beans. Mom swears by this and I tend to believe her since everyone in the family love beans except me. It also adds a nice flavor to the beans. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-make-your-beans-fartless/40017.md?page=1)