"cshenk" > wrote in message
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> "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).

Ahhhhh)

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

OK, but not being a bean afficianado..... I cooked my first been
dish (ever) yesterday... so please bear with me, but we loved them and so I
am very willing to learn Anything you can teach me will be very welcome.


> 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.

Thank you I shall keep a note and learn about them!

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