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I found dried refried beans that you mix on your own with water to be the best pinto beans.. taste and all ....hands down.... ain't bought caned since.... I found them a few years ago, when I run out it's a sad day and I use a ..can .... I just got a 5 year supply from Amazon . If you need to brach out on some good eats .....go dry....imo at 6 foot and 370 lbs I know what I'm talking about ! Lol

At least you don't have 280% of your sodium.

Atvalaska, what brand are you buying?

Yep. I’d be curious to try them too.

Santiago Excel Refried Beans, 29.7 Oz (Pack of 6), Large Size for Food Services and Restaurants, Easy To Prepare, Gluten Free, No Artificial Colors, Flavors, .......this here one is as good as my last one...really bean'e ! Enjoy !

So let it be written, so let it be done.

The spoon full rite before he folds up his burrito..is what they look like ,( not as fakky when dry either)..long ways up here tho.... some times I add a spoons full of back grease instead of water in the end ..good eats men !

Fook, you are paying a LOT of money for a beat up bean!

Here is how we do it:

1) Dried pinto beans, rinsed, check for bad beans and pebbles (yes, rocks in a bag of beans is a thing, if you didn't know that, you've been cracking cans open your entire life)
2) Dump beans into Instapot/pressure cooker
3) Cover beans 2" deep with beef stock and some diced sweet/yellow onion
4) Pressure cook 1 hour
5) Strain beans and put in blender, with a bit of the bean water. Add a spoonful of bacon grease/lard and a heavy pat of butter. (those instant beans have lard too. Check the ingredients. Relax....)
6) Blend. Add garlic salt, CUMIN, and the pressure cooker water to thin to desired consistency. (or, more butter/lard to taste)

Now you have BETTER refired beans for 10% of the cost (plus your time)

Just tryIng to understand.

Refried beans put in a can are bad.

But refried beans, dried out,
then reconstituted, are good?


Is this a serious thing?
Or simply playing on biases?

I think you have a firm grasp!

Go ahead ...stuff your heading the sand , u can kick youronw azz in the end ...years of good eats ..gone .... sad chit

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Ever sprinkle salt on a slice of avocado....omg

Did any of u give it a go ?

I just do it like my old Mexican neighbor did. Melt a tablespoon or so of bacon grease in a pan. Dump in canned refried beans. Add a couple pats of butter and some Mexican crema until the beans are smooth to your liking. I have since found out there are quite a few Mexican restaurants that do it this way. YMMV

I volunteer to be your consumer test agency.

No beans in chili?

I bought one bag from Amazon to try but we haven’t opened it yet. Maybe in a week or so.

Anytime carnale

What ever goes out of the bean while they dry ...needs to go , I've cooked them from scratch, and added butter and all that to caned beans etc ..the dry bag tastes the best..imo ..and my wife's..then the neighbors...etc . Lol ...... I go to Great Links in order to get my food correct, different stores buy one can each of refried beans, go home open them all up and test sample......same thing I did with tomato sauce, stewed tomatoes .....whatever...... I'm only eating what I think tastes the best ....then its the only thing I buy .....screw the rest

These work for me.

https://www.heb.com/product-detail/mi-tienda-refried-pinto-beans-17-6-oz/1705165

I was at the store today checking prices on my way home ,holy cow stuffs out of hand ..went on Amazon to try and load up on my goodies like these beans....dammmm .... they won't ship up here anymore,, prices went up couple cents an ounce .....but I did find a company that ain't learned our shipping prices yet.....got me two more cases coming..I'm set for quite a while!

Had a Mexican cook offshore that cooked dried pinto beans then fried them and mashed them as they fried. He used an excellent seasoning mix of his own. They were the best I have ever eaten. I don't hnow the seasoning mix but he fried them in bacon grease.

I use the dried as well, when I don't have time to make scratch. They have a much better flavor and you can mix them to any consistency you want.

Mexicali Rose is the brand I find locally. They have black beans too.

Yup.....

Tried making em for the first time a few days ago. Soaked for 24 hours, then used the pressure cooker. Didn’t want to add too much of any seasoning so I could have an accurate baseline of what they taste like naturally.

Not bad. Definitely needed more salt and reserved liquid than I expected.

Today we tried the dried beans from Amazon. Both the wife and I agreed they were far better than any canned beans we ever ate. When the bag goes empty we will order a case next time.