How to cook common bean in mess tin in campfire during hikers camp? Each night would be in the other location. The challenge is to first soak the beans and then to cook them. Beans should be cooked on little fire, which is quite hard to achieve with campfire.
I thought about soaking beans in mess tin for the night, then on the next campfire boil the water and keep beans in boiling water keeping the right distance from the center of the fire. The water would probably one moment boil intensively and the other will be a few degrees under boiling point.
Is this possible to cook beans in such way? Is there the other way to prepare it?
Best Answer
You can just soak beans until they are ready to cook. Depending on the bean, it would have variable soak times; but many beans left in water will come to a nice toothsome texture of their own accord (bear in mind they will need to be either sprouted or cooked at the end).
Assuming you have a watertight container for a serving of beans to store them while they soak (I like small pyrex containers for portage), you could also toss them into the skillet or other cooking utensil to boil them. This way you could carry multiple days supply dry, which would make them light and not prone to spoilage but for the quantity soaking.
Frequently, co-ops and health food stores have bulk bins with varieties of dried beans and charts detailing soak times; you could mix your own medley by bagging a few different ones that all have approximately the same soak time.