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Title: Refried Beans
Post by paddlemaker on Jun 29^th, 2009 at 5:19am

I was looking through the recipe and I saw these (You need to Login or Register.

The hints section says you can vacuum seal refried beans and they should keep.

Has anyone tried vacuum sealing refried beans? An other tips on packing refried beans (w/o dehydrating)?

Thanks

Title: Re: Refried Beans
Post by marlin55388 on Jun 29^th, 2009 at 3:00pm

Nope...always used the grocery store dehydrated.

Title: Re: Refried Beans
Post by Chicken092 on Jun 29^th, 2009 at 3:34pm

The recipe also states that you should vacuum seal the tortilla shells. We vacuumed wheat tortilla shells last year and ended up with one homegenous tortilla instead of the twelve that we vacuumed sealed. Maybe you could vacuum seal corn shell, but I have never tried.

We also have only ever used dehydrated refried beans.

Title: Re: Refried Beans
Post by solotripper on Jun 29^th, 2009 at 5:04pm

Chicken092 wrote on Jun 29^th, 2009 at 3:34pm:

Put a sheet of wax paper between each tortilla/pita bread etc, before you vacuum pack. That will keep them from becoming ONE big tortilla ;)
The wax paper makes a good fire starter as well.

Title: Re: Refried Beans
Post by prouboy on Jun 30^th, 2009 at 1:11am

Eric - I've had success vacuum-sealing refried beans. It's slick. Heat them by putting them in boiling water. After you're done, the clean-up is easy. No messy pots to clean.

I've been told any time you cook food in advance, especially meat, it will stay a lot longer. For that reason, I precook then vacuum seal breakfast sausage and brats.

prouboy

Title: Re: Refried Beans
Post by marlin55388 on Jul 8^th, 2009 at 5:59pm

Fermentation must have atmosphere-lower amounts of necessary atmosphere the slower the fermentation process, OXiDATION. Temperature also plays roll...You can make tortillas on trail too....from scratch-lighter way of going! Folks do it at home-will try to post recipe. The vacuum pack beans works....really I think that I will stick to dehydrated due to the toxins exuded by certain protein consuming bacteria :o Not looking for that permanent face lift any time to soon ;)