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Beans are cheaper dry than canned though. If you have the patience you can start them in a slow cooker before you go to work.
Garlic, onion, and peppers go miles in making beans taste good while also being cheaper.
I'm wondering now though whether the cost balances out because dry beans require a lot more energy to cook? I know they need at least an hour on the stove, whereas canned beans you can just add to a chilli etc straight away
Most likely, dry ones would still turn out cheaper because they weigh much more after hydration. But this is indeed a matter to consider
This can also be mitigated a lot by cooking the beans in the morning mor a short time, packing the pan into a lot of blankets and then cooking it shortly in the evening.
Pressure cooker is the way for dry foods. Mine will do split peas lentils and mung bean stew in 12 mins.
If you are poor, a pressure cooker is out of reach if you don't already have one.
How poor are we talking? I just found a pressure cooker for $25 on Amazon.
Poor where we are talking about saving cents on buying canned beans vs dry beans because it makes a difference.
When you go in debt every month to just survive, every cent count.
I would definitely indebt myself of 25$, but I am in a situation where I don't need to, so it is easy to say. I don't know what that reality is.
Fair, but it's also the kind of thing that can be found for very cheap/free if you don't mind second hand
I am not aware of the second hand market where you are, but it's hard to find deals here and if you find one, you gotta be fast.
But that's a fair point. It depends on where you are I guess.
I think time to cook food has become a luxry in the eyes of the so-called "invisible hand". It'd be rad to find someone in the community with the time to cook huge pots of the stuff and pay them for the rice 'n beans.
Cereal is expensive, people arent buying it because its cheap, theyre buying it because the invisible hand demands their cooking time.
Oh yeah and don't go calling it a restraunt, cause thats fucking expensive too.