"Ophelia" wrote

>>> I am new to bean cookery. I was just asking...
>>> What is the difference between pinto beans and others?

>> Other than size, shape, color and taste, they are about the same as any
>> other bean.

> lol how different do they taste?

About like the difference between beef and pork! (grin).

Seriously, for a bean afficianado there's a big difference but for basic
consumption they come in sets of comon flavor relations.

Pinto/dark red kidney shaped beans
Red/pink beans
white beans (many names and types, navy beans is a common one)
Black eyed peas
Black beans
Aduki sweet beans

Read the list and they are in order of relative flavor so that the pinto's
nearest flavor match is the red/pink which in turn next matches closest to
the white navy and so on down. The aduki don't totally fit nor would mung
beans as they have more to do with the traditional fixing methods.