Burnt taste out of beans

Answer 1

The first step in taking the burned taste out of white beans is to separate the burned beans from the unburned beans. Begin adding 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar at a time, tasting the beans each time. A teaspoon of peanut butter could also help take out the burned taste.

Answer 2

Once a food has been scorched it is very hard to remove the taste. Adding more beans will only calm down the taste and not really remove it. As soon as you noticed it has been scorched stop stirring it to avoid mixing in the burnt portion. Pour it into a clean pot and continue to cook it at a lower heat.

The above suggestion to stop stirring will work if the beans start burning while you are watching and you catch it early, but what is more likely is that the beans will burn while you are not watching and you won't notice until you smell them.

By the time you can smell burnt beans it's too late to save any of the beans. The burning beans at the bottom of the pot will create smoke, but the volatile chemicals in that smoke will condense as they pass through the water above them. This will fill the unburnt beans with (very small amounts of) all sorts of toxic chemicals*. Luckily these chemicals (the "smoke") taste so horrible that no one would ever eat a dangerous amount of them unless they were starving or eating them on a dare or something, but either way the smoke coming up from the bottom of the pot will condense on the beans above and will ruin them even if they don't look burnt.

WHAT SHOULD YOU DO IF YOU BURN YOUR BEANS? Don't eat them. Put on clothes that you don't care about (because it will be hard to get the smell out of them). If you can smell the burnt beans in the room, then open the doors and windows. After turning off the burner, pour a couple cups of water into the pot to stop the burning and cool the pot. Stand back while doing this because the water will boil instantly. Put a lid on it. Wait 20-30 minutes at least. Once the pot has cooled so that it is safe to carry, take it outside or into a bathroom that has a fart fan (to control the smell). While outside or in the bathroom, dump the beans into a trash bag and dispose of them. Don't try to scrape off the burnt beans at this point because they are too stuck and if you try to scrape them too early you will just break off the tops of them which will make things harder later. Fill the pot with water and a tiny amount of dish soap (smaller than a b-b) and let it soak for hours. Take the pot back outside or back to the bathroom and scrape out what you can with the sharpest instrument you can use on the type of pan you have (with a stainless steel pot use a stainless steel spatula and with a non-stick pot use a metal spatula that is coated with Teflon). Then scrub and wash the pot like normal.

If your walls or the hood above your stove smell like burnt beans, then use a cleaner that is made for painters to remove grease from a wall before painting. (One brand of this is called "Krud Kutter"). These cleaners will also remove latex paint, if you scrub hard enough, so be prepared to repaint the wall. Before using a strong cleaner like this, try a 50/50 mix of vinegar and water, and only use the painters' cleaner if you can still smell the burnt beans after the vinegar smell evaporates.

IF YOU HATE BURNING BEANS AS MUCH AS I DO, then cook your beans in a slow-cooker. If you put some beans in a slow cooker with a couple sliced onions and some garlic (and maybe some salt and olive oil) and let it cook all day while you are at school/work then you're house will smell beautiful when you return and your beans won't be burnt.

* All smoke is toxic. Bean smoke is no more toxic than any other smoke, as far as I know (but it does smell worse!). Eating burnt beans won't kill you, and probably won't even make you sick, but it can't be good for you so it is best to avoid eating them just in case.

* If they're not scorched but burned, you can add one to two quartered potatoes for about 10 minutes, then remove and discard them. They should absorb most of the bad taste.

Answer 3

Unfortunately, once you've burnt food, you really cannot remove the burnt taste in it. It has a very distinctive, acrid smell and taste, and there's no way to mask or remove it. If you've burnt rice or potatoes, you *might* be able to salvage a little bit at the top if you avoid mixing it up, but for the most part, the food can't be saved.

Answer 4

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