Arri London wrote:

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> Van Chocstraw wrote:
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>>Why does my favorite bean, the kidney bean, come is such a bland, clear,
>>tasteless sauce? Why don't they make them with the same molasses sauce
>>as regular baked beans?
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> Your tinned beans aren't in a sauce; it's the starch they give off plus
> the salt and water in which they were cooked. Drain them, rinse them and
> make a dish with them.

Exactly. That's not a sauce, it's more like an exudate. Bean slime.
It's not poisonous but it's nothing I'd consume deliberately. Dump 'em
out in a colander and give them a good rinse.