I was cooking beans, pinto beans. Was finishing them off on high heat with a cover to make the juice thicken up. I burned them just a touch, not really bad but enough to leave that burned bean taste on them even after I switched pots.
Anyone know how to get that taste off them without dumping the whole pot ?
Nope, 'fraid not. But, just to make you feel better, at least you didn’t lock yourself out of the house while letting the beans burns, and ultimately have to 'phone the fire servce to help you get back in. See, I’m sure you feel better now.
It might be Tabasco time.
Ayesha, I do that regularly. Put the pot on the stove and forget about it until the smell or something burning reaches me upstairs.
There is no good solution (except dump it and start over). The only thing I try to do is get the stuff out without disturbing the bottom part that’s stuck to the pot. Leave that behind as it is the part that tastes worst.
Every time it happens I promise myself I’ll set an alarm clock next time so it won’t happen again.
You haven’t had a cooking disaster until you forget that you are boiling eggs and have them explode all over your kitchen. Took forever to get rid of the smell, though the mess was worth a full afternoon of cleaning.
I rarely hard boil eggs now.
When you scorch a pot of beans or sauce, the most important thing to do is not stir or agitate it in any fashion. Simply pour off the contents that will come out of the pot and junk whatever remains in the scorched pot. You have to really fry a pot of food for the burned flavor to penetrate the entire batch. However, when that happens, you are stuck.
If the scorch flavor isn’t TOO pronounced, you can sometimes cover it up with a fairly sweet and spicy BBQ sauce. Sweet is better than hot.
If you really want to salvage the pot, try boiling it with water with a couple tablespoons of baking soda in it–it helps loosen the black stuff off the bottom. (But don’t go off and forget it, too!) :eek:
I did this to a favorite pot, once–it took a couple days of boiling and scrubbing with SOS pads, but it finally came clean.
Thank you all. I got the beans into another pot, and added some dices tomatoes , that was the plan all along as I am making beanstuff (pinto beans with hamburger, tomatoes and onions served over rice). Adding the tomatoes seems to have helped some, I may add a little brown sugar sugar to the mix now.
DDG, the pot isn’t totally ruined thankfully. Because then I would cry. It’s my favorite pot, it holds up to 6 gallons of soup, stew or whatever. It is at least 35 years old and belonged to my Mother-in-Law. I was here, at SDMB, we all know how lost you can get here. There has to be a lesson somewhere in here about dope and cooking not mixing.
Better hope the DEA doesn’t hear about this! 