Ranch style beans are different than baked beans in the US. Try Bush's baked beans for American style baked beans (something bbq or brown sugar flavored). Ranch style (or beans in chili sauce) is what we would toss in a pot to make chili or eat over rice.
Not only that, Heinz is an American brand. You can get virtually the same product from the same company in America with slightly different labeling. That would have been a more fair/interesting comparison.
As several folks have pointed out, nobody in Texas considers these baked beans. Bake beans to us is pork n beans with some things added, bacon on the top, and baked in the oven.
The reason it doesn't taste of onion is because "sweet onions" are grown in sulfur poor soil so they can't make the eye watering compounds that make them taste like onions. If you've ever heard of Vidalia, Walla Walla, or Maui onions, those are all sweet.
This is true. I can eat sweet onions raw and do so, from time to time. No tears, no bite, just that delicious oniony taste. With a little bit of low salt cow cheese, some olive oil and bread. Chef's kiss.
A great usage for chili beans like these is a Navajo taco: frybread (literally a fried savory dough) topped with beans, cooked ground beef (or something diced up and stewed), lettuce, cheese, etc. It's a cheap and easy meal and tastes incredible.
@@dortek882 Fry bread is not gluten free. Wheat flour, baking powder, yeast, and salt; mix to a soft dough, form into a thick tortilla shape, and fry in hot oil. Also, Navajo tacos, while they are pretty delicious when made right, have an origin that has nothing to do with Navajo Indians whatsoever.
Well i live neer a different pond, and only tryed the uk ones, and find them to taste, kinda almost a little tomato ish, with a ton of bland and suggar. But my options are few in my tiny pond, so i always make my own.
@Krampus I grew up near the Texas coast (now I live in central Texas) but my mom taught me to add BBQ sauce, a little ketchup and sometimes some onion powder and garlic powder. Yum! My fav!
I'm American, and my family, and most Americans, I believe, like these beans as an accompaniment with our BBQ or grilled foods. For example, we would use these with a steak and some potatoes salad, or grilled corn on the cob. Hope that help in the reason for these beans.😀
Being from Texas this is an odd one for me being "wierd" lol. We always keep some cans of ranch style beans here, but they are a "cheap" food for us poor folks. Usually mix them with other things to make them better.
Beans are cheap source of protein world wide, whole protein when mixed with grains, like beans on toast, beans on rice, in corn tortillas, pita and hummus, etc
@@bobbybobstar1496 Can of beans and a cup of rice can go a LOOOOONG way toward providing you a stomach full of satisfaction and enough energy to get through a day.
Another Texan here saying this is Super Normal for us! In my family (Mexican-American), we have them for breakfast with eggs and chorizo and of course some flour tortillas.
It’s fascinating to see these beans on Weird Stuff in a Can. I personally grew up eating ranch style beans in East Texas. Seeing them examined like this is a little surreal. Also getting a good chuckle out of the people who initially assumed that ranch beans meant baked beans in ranch dressing.
Holy moly! £2.99 for a can of beans😮 Thanks for the review - I definitely won't be trying them at that price - but now you've reviewed them, I don't have to😜
I think baked beans and pork and beans are closer to the English-style beans. Both use the same type of beans (called navy beans in American English). Then we also have Boston baked beans, which replaces the brown sugar with molasses. Ranch-style beans aren’t as common until you get out to the Western and Southwestern US. I think you would find more Americans serving cornbread or Boston brown bread with baked beans than regular toast. At least in the areas where my family have lived. I’ve always been served cornbread with the Ranch-style beans, as well.
Howdy from Texas. We do have baked beans that are much more comparable to the UK baked beans. They aren’t exactly the same but much closer than the Ranch Style Beans. In my family we use the ranch style to throw into chili and to make a Mexican casserole. Never had them on toast though. Great video!!
@@Reefer191 In the US, real Texas chili contains only spicy beef. No beans. Sacrilegious chili makers add any bean under the sun but by far pintos. Kidney beans tend to be found in Creole spiced or Louisiana rice and beans though pintos are a close second. I've never heard of anyone outside the UK who eats beans on toast. The Heinz beans are usually eaten by children so guessing it's the sweetness. I've never bought a can of Bush beans. Give me a pot of homemade pinto beans over any in a can.
I have to say I'm honored to have something from my local grocery store shelves show up on Weird Stuff in a Can. As a few others have stated, my family primarily uses this sort of thing as an easy filler for chilis and the like.
a thing they like do do over here is sell cans of "pork and beans" that contain one tiny little chunk of pork in the entire can, but it's extremely funny that they'd do the same thing with a single tiny little scrap of onion
These "husband pleasin'" ranch style beans (original) are my secret ingredient for chili! The one with onions is weird though, so I guess it really does work as a "Weird stuff in a can". I always keep a half dozen on hand. You can find them for about $1 a can. They have my permission to continue sending the ones with onion in them to the UK. :)
@@soupnfresh Well, it really isn't anything to write home about - even though I talked it up. I Use French's Chili-O (no onion) seasoning as the base. It calls for a pound of ground beef but I specifically get chili grind (which is normally only put out in the winter here). It is a much coarser grind and adds great texture to the chili. I chop and saute a medium onion, then add the beef (saute). I add a 14.5 oz. can of stewed tomatoes. I small can of tomato sauce. The seasoning mix. And finally the can of ranch style beans. I let i simmer for a long time to let the flavors merge adding a bit more water if needed. Years ago I made a different chili using masa harina and beer as part of the ingredients, but this one is simple and tasty enough (for me).
@@stevekemble8911 Thank you for sharing. I bought some cans thinking I would cook something with them but haven't had the time. Your recipe sounds delicious. Thanks again!
I'd recommend a nice big piece of corn bread crumbled into those beans if you're looking for it to be sweeter. Also, they make a jalapeno version of those beans that are really good if the shop you go to happens to have those as well.
Just thought I'd leave a comment saying I've tried your can opener method of opening ring pull cans, and I'm happy to report it's now also my preferred way of opening those kinds of cans too. Most of the time my fingernails are too short to lift the ring pull, and I've never liked using an implement. Using a can opener only takes marginally longer, and doesn't take much more effort, so I think I'll keep using that method to open cans from now on.
This video makes me so happy. I live in Fort Worth and Ranch Style Beans have been a family favorite forever. The savory flavor is inspired by TexMex cooking and are often used as-is out of the can, or as an addition to chili.
Texan here. My family uses these Ranch Style beans as a filler ingredient in chili. When I’m particularly lazy I’ll just mix one can of this with one can of beanless chili and call it a day.
@@ferrumignis Kidney and Pinto are usually the staples for chili in the states, but I have had 3-bean chili that adds black beans too. Pinto is definitely used more often for baked and refried beans.
@@ferrumigniskidney is the fan favorite bean in chili in most of America, but in Texas, it's almost always pinto if there are beans in chili at all (most Texans don't put beans in chili)
I agree with many of the comments. I’m a Texan, and we wouldn’t call these baked beans. Baked beans are distinctly different (your Heinz brand would certainly be considered baked beans here, too). These are served with Texas barbecue. Their origin, I would think, comes more from Mexico than the traditional baked beans from the eastern US. Though Ranch Style beans are still different from Mexico borracho beans and the sort. But I would guess that Texas beans still have more of the Mexican influence.
Finally weird stuff in a can that I actually eat! Before I knew how to use spices, I'd make fancy chili with a can of ranch style pintos mixed with a can of ranch style black beans. 😂
In grad school (in America) I survived off these mixed with rice and scrambled eggs. Filling and somewhat tasty meal for very cheap. I think where I lived they were around $1.59 for the can. I'll still eat it from time to time as a comfort meal.
UK and us style baked beans are pretty much the same in my experience. But southern, ranch or Texas style baked beans can be way different. From southern us, been to the uk, and have other other us brands available. I like making them Myself WAAAAY more than from can. I prefer less sweet baked beans, all of the baked beans I can hardly eat. It tastes wrong to me. But it's more popular than the less sweet variety. For a more accurate comparison, compare Heinz to Bush's Baked Beans.
If you ever feel like revisiting this subject, I highly recommend Bush's Baked Beans. It has a thicker sauce with some sweetness to it, and adds bacon for a bit of texture variety and some nice bursts of saltiness instead of slightly overwhelming saltiness throughout. It also would likely be a more "fair" comparison. Ranch Style is more of a Southern brand, but Bush's is all over the country. If you are looking for a way to soften the beans and thicken the sauce, stirring while simmering at low heat after the recommended cooking time is a method my family has been using for decades. Obviously not going overboard while intentionally overcooking to the point where the beans are mush, but the sauce texture will let you know when it is ready. May also help to not drink half of the sauce before dumping it on the toast too lol
Oh my God I'm so happy to see something I consider "normal" on weird stuff in a can. I live in the American southwest so these are extremely common. In pretty much every store.
These eaten cold from the can with a spoon was my go-to depression meal in high school. My family did eat them on toast occasionally though! (American)
When I was in college I had a friend who put ranch style beans on bread topped it with grated cheese and toasted it in a toaster oven. Delicious. And I was raised on ranch style beans without the onions. When I was a little girl ranch style had a Mexican rice in a can. We had that sometimes but it wasn't that great.
Did you know that 'UK Baked Beans' came from Native American (not sure what specific group of Native American people, Wikipedia is not specific) foods? Haricot beans are native to the US and English colonists began to take the idea of baked beans and added sugar and/or molasses to them and Heinz brought baked beans to the UK in the 19th century. Fascinating!
@@thatpizzalesbian6984 kind of no, even the haggis was a product of colonisation by the Romans. And of course the whole of the UK was colonised by mainland Europeans. And of course the whole world was colonised by Africans.
Growing up, my Mom would mix these with uncle bens wild rice- top with cheese, sour cream, hot sauce- delicious side dish for any grilled meat! Love you Mom
Pinto beans are a very Texas/Southwestern bean, though for what's referred to as American style baked beans, you'll have the same navy/haricot beans you'll find the the UK version. It's mostly the inclusion of molasses in American baked beans that makes the difference.
Pretty cool to see you can get ranch style beans in the UK. Being from Texas I grew up on these beans and still eat them once a week with dinner. They complement almost any entree.
Never tried the Ranch Style beans but as a yank who lived many years in England I confirm that US Heinz are very different from UK Heinz. I buy the latter at a premium on Amazon at about the 2.99 quid you paid for those Texas beans. Love 'em with a fry-up, beans on toast and even a cold can on a late night binge. On the subject of can openers I found a great one that doesnt cut the lid of the can off, it undercuts below the seam. No sharp edges and the top can be dropped on the can if not using all of it creating a perfect seal. Cheers! Love the channel!
I find that what are called "super sweet" onions such as Vidalia and Walla Walla tend to "cook up" in beans unless put in the pot at the end of the cook or on the table. I add chopped onions to my beans just before eating them. That way I can actually taste them and discern a difference between the crunch of the onions and the soft velvety mouthfeel of the beans.
Some people love the Ranch style beans with a much thinner sauce. Many brands that are that style are almost completely Savory with little or no sweetness. A large amount of us in the US prefer the Baked beens style like the Heinz you had or other brands which are both Savory and sweet. Even though I am American I grew up with Beans on Toast due to English grandparents. Love making my own in a slow cooker.
Thanks Mike. As I listened to this description of the Ranch Style Beans, I decided that I would really like them. Grew up in the UK, never been to USA, so don’t have any experience of their version of baked beans. But I personally find that Heinz beans are too mushy for me, have too much sauce and are too sweet, so I reckon I’m going to have to look out for these. I often get a tin of supermarket brand beans, and add Borlotti beans and chickpeas, plus a touch of barbecue sauce! So thanks for the recommendation. Also, I sometimes get a tin of nut luncheon meat, and have to think what to make. I live alone and there’s enough for at least five meals for me, so I slice it and freeze in layers of grease proof paper. What I’d really enjoy is to watch you open a can of nut luncheon-meat and describe it, then find low cost things to do with it. It would be fun for hard up vegetarian or vegan students who I notice often comment on here. But it’s a good source of solid protein that needs you to inspire us! And it is weird, (certainly would be weird for meat eaters!) although I quite like a slice straight out of the can when I first open it. I do hope we can see you take on this challenge - maybe it’s one for the Autumn so chunks of it could be included in a stew. Great work and thanks so much for the continuing videos that absorb, entertain and inform us with never ending variety. It really is the best thing since sliced bread!
Texan here. I enjoy Ranch Style Beans as a lunch quite often, sometimes with a biscuit. These and Bush's Baked Beans are quite popular with local cowboys as a good, portable meal or meal addition. The difference between Appetite Pleasin' (original) and Sweet Onion flavors is rather slight - the Sweet Onion variety, as Atomic Shrimp noted, has no discernible onions, but has a slight sweet flavor imparted by them.
i prefer the 'regular' flavored ranch beans without the sweet onion. usually have them warmed alongside a hot dog or sausage, sometimes with a dash of hot sauce. delicious
*@Atomic Shrimp* Ranch beans are not meant to be "BAKED beans", RANCH beans are just that....ranch beans. They aren't intended for sweet stuff, they are intended for use in SAVORY dishes.
@@AtomicShrimp LOL, ok maybe sweet dishes was a bit of an exaggeration. What I was sort of getting at was that comparing Ranch Beans to Baked Beans, is rather like comparing apples and oranges. VanCamps Pork and Beans, or Bush's Baked Beans on the other hand are fairly similar to the UK baked beans.
These are everywhere in northern Mexico too. I used to make chilli dogs with them when I was a kid. I clicked as soon as I saw the thumbnail! I'm super curious to see what you think.
I'm from the Midwest, and I can't speak for the whole of America, but our most popular beans are sweet, smokey, brown, and goopy. I was so surprised when I saw that the Ranch Style Beans were red and had a low sugar content. 😅 Bush's baked beans, the most popular brand in Wisconsin, are widely different from UK beans and Ranch Style Beans. The onion variety has 13g of added sugars per serving, navy beans, and no tomato. I have tried UK beans, I enjoy how light and tangy they are, I feel much healthier eating them. ❤️ It's so interesting how much baked beans vary around the world. I hope you have a beautiful day mister Atomic Shrimp. 🌈💖✌️
I did a bit of googling and I'm astounded to discover that ranch style beans and cowboy beans aren't the same thing! Also, for a tasty recipe for beans try adding a few teaspoons of Frank's hot sauce and some barbecue sauce to a can of Branston baked beans. Really does the trick on a few slices of toasted doorstop farmhouse bread.
Where I grew up, Alabama, I think the baked beans are a lot more like the ones you're used to. Instead of tomato sauce they use barbecue sauce, often with some bits of shredded pork mixed in. I suspect they'd be much sweeter, and the sauce is definitely much thicker and more syrupy. Still made with pinto beans, though.
After my first trip to Britain as a child, I was totally hooked on baked beans. In those days, they were not yet available in Germany. So my mum went through the trouble to find a traditional recepy for New England baked beans. It was made with kidney beans, bacon and real maple sirup and had to bake in the oven for several hours. She worked so hard for it, and I was so disapointed! Her recepy was very good, maybe even superior, but it was not the kind of baked beans I had expected. Years later, I was so glad when the common market gave us "British" baked beans.....
I grew up 40 miles away from the plant that originally canned these. I was so sad when Conagra bought the brand and literally closed the iconic Ft.Worth plant and manufactured them elsewhere. Not sure if they are making em in Texas again but it doesn’t matter. Conagra committed the mortal sin of changing the original recipe by adding cheap soybean oil and lessening the amount of beef fat in the recipe 😡. Never have tasted as good since. I still occasionally serve them as a side dish or put them in my chili as a time saver but continue to miss the original flavor. They cost around $1.15 a can right now in Texas. ❤️❤️ the video!
Hey! That’s my town. I grew up with people whose parents worked at the factory. They aren’t often eaten straight out of the can, but as a part of a larger recipe, like Jenn Grace was saying.
As a Brit living in the USA.. I get the weirdness of these compared to our homestyle Heinz ones.. I miss the old beans and was more interested in you tasting them!. bringing back memories. LOL..
I stopped buying them beans years ago because of rising prices and lowering standards. We have something called chili beans and (not chili w/beans) it is like bean soup flavored like (real) chili. BBQ beans can is usually a can or 3 of Boston baked beans with chopped sweet onion and strips of (stripey) bacon on top thrown into a rectangular (9' x 13' for example) and baked till bacon is cooked, bbq sauce and various spices are often added or instead of bacon, chunks of brisket are used. Pinto beans are cheap and readily available in Texas and while most recipes for "a pot of beans" calls for some form of meat, the recipe I use is vegetarian not by design but by cost and availability. Don't like pinto bean texture? Try mayacoba beans, same flavor, only very mild and a consistent creamy/buttery mouth feel. Cornbread in Texas has added sugar/honey (a point of contention with some of the Southern states) winch helps with spicy foods. For me, adding chiles to dishes is more about flavor and less about heat. Whether fresh, dried, pickled or smoked the sheer amount of varieties and different flavors on offer have skewed my perception away from recipes from places that put an emphasis on one particular pepper or another because of popularity or whatever. Bolners Fiesta brand is a decent place to start if you want "authentic " flavor (whatever that means to you).
I'm going to hop on the "these aren't baked beans!" train if only because I hate baked beans and like ranch style beans! They taste very different. Like a couple others, when we think of baked beans most think of Busch's baked beans. The brown sugar ones are popular. I hope you can get your hands on some and do a comparison with all 3 😂
I really like Ranch Style beans, hands down my favorite beans. When I’m lazy and want a quick easy meal, I’ll just grab a can out of the pantry and eat it out of the can with a spoon. If I’m actually using them properly, I’ll mix a can in with a box of shells and cheese as well as a pound of ground beef. Really brings everything together quite nicely.
As others have said, Ranch Style beans are delicious but not comparable to your baked beans. We have different kinds of canned beans, our Pork and beans are more like your Heinz beans. Baked beans in the US are much thicker and sweeter.
I am another Texan chiming in to say that these are intended to be used in chili or mashed up and used as a bean burrito filling, and are not intended to be used like baked beans at all. For BBQ cookouts, we often have both types at the same table: Spicy chili with ranch style beans in it, and then sweet baked beans as well. They go great side-by-side, but are not intended to be a replacement for one another. Imagine what sweet baked beans would be like in your chili, or what chili beans on toast would be like. It is just not how they were intended to be eaten. I have not tried the sweet onion variety, but I stick with the classic. Delicious.
Fort Worth, TX native here: I don’t know that anyone would think of these if someone said “baked beans” … I certainly wouldn’t. So either what I’d consider baked beans would have derived from the UK style baked beans, or it’s something different altogether. In general like other commenters have said, You’d expect to have these with something like barbecue. I tend to think of this as chili beans without the meat and not as much tomato. (Though I am in the no-beans chili camp.) Also, I don’t pay much attention to these (I’m not a huge fan though I don’t hate them) but I don’t know I’ve ever seen multiple versions. Onions may just be a selling point and one without onions may not exist. I’m not sure.
£2.99 for a can of beans lol I thought I had misheard. You could always add additional cumin and paprika to standard baked beans lol texture and saltiness will be different. Lol. Love this series and great to see other countries canned foods which are not normally seen he in the UK. Maybe these beans are not to be eaten on their own? Maybe to be mixed in stews to add additional texture and saltiness?
Hi AS. Someone probably already mentioned this in the comments but those Ranch Style beans are not our usual style of baked beans here in the US. We do have the style you're familiar with but it's called pork and beans (because they're cooked with a piece of salt pork) and they're put out by Campbell's. The Ranch Style are sold here at Walmart. However, the majority of baked beans here are in the New England style. By that i mean they have a molasses base as opposed to tomato (Heinz) or cumin (ranch). B&M, Bush's and other brands primarily use molasses or in some cases, brown sugar. I've had home made baked beans in this style and they're delicious. Often served with hot dogs in butter grilled rolls.
Grew up on Heinz in NY (now in AUS), and both in NY and AU, the Heinz baked beans have enough sugar in them to give a grown horse cavities :) I've tried Heinz BB's again about a year ago out of curiosity and a craving, weirdly enough... I couldn't stomach them, just far too sweet for my taste buds nowadays... and this is from a guy who still loves his cakes, cookies and pastries...
I was born in Texas, and baked beans were a staple food in my house growing up. My mom always simmered them with a ham bone and scraps, usually after big holidays where we had ham. Beans and cornbread is a great comfort food! I feel like the canned beans never taste quite right compared to family recipes, but that's true of most foods I suppose. I'd love to see you try your hand at making cornbread sometime.
Holy cow I have a load of those cans (the ones with jalapeños) in my pantry and we bought them for 70 or 80 cents a can! 😱 That is a lot of money you paid for that! My husband eats those beans (not the sweet onions) with a slice of American cheese on top. I guess that might be a Texas thing??? I don't eat those at all. I prefer black beans.
I'm with you on the can opener. This week, for the second time, I have cut myself on a pull-tab can. Never again! I have a can opener like yours. Now I just need to get my family to use it the right way up.
I'm from California and I've never had seen Ranch Beans with Onions before, I've had the Original and Jalapeno variety ( the Jalapeno is present and adds heat and flavor but there isn't much a difference besides that) . I'd imagine though with the amount of cumin and spices it'd be hard to taste any onion at all over the spices. When I'm feeling particularly lazy or hungry for something South-Western I'll fix up some chopped aromatics like onions, pepper, garlic and add spices or other beans and vegetables to stretch out the dish. If you like Cumin or Chili beans there's a strong chance you'll like these.
Hello from the USA, here is how you eat ranch style or baked beans in America. Empty the can into a shallow baking dish, the beans need to reach halfway up the dish or they will dry out too much. If you want them a little sweeter add a tablespoon of brown sugar, otherwise just place them in the oven at a low temperature, and bake until the become thick and sticky, DO NOT eat them on toast!!! Generally we have them with fried chicken and potato salad. Hope this helps, give it a try.
Speaking from a fort worth native myself. These are best with grilled/roasted beef or poultry. I enjoy these best with a rotisserie chicken and some greens
I would love to see you make a "pork and beans" style baked bean dish common in some regions of the United States to see what you think of it. I would gladly share a recipe if you are interested.
that is so funny I literally just had a can of these for dinner last night I also have three more my pantry along with six cans of ranch style beans with jalapeno you should try those those are awesome
Here in the southern US, we put our BBQ baked beans on bread and toast quite often. I used to put them between 2 slices of bread or toast and eat it like a bean sandwich. Messy but tasty
Hi Mike, a bit of Tabasco will go a long way towards dressing these up. Here in New Mexico we put Hatch Valley green chile, roasted and chopped, or as a red sauce, on them, but I'm not sure you can get our red and green chile where you live.
This is really really funny for me to come across. I am from Texas, and my father ate these every morning from the age I was 3-13. But no sweet onion, just the original. I’m actually nostalgic for the ranch style can. Always keep a can just in case. I think here it’s only .50 cents a can? Possibly a dollar. VERY much chili flavored, we would add Cholula or Tabasco on top too (hot sauce) and since I’m Mexican, eat with tostadas or tortillas and eggs.
Ranch style beans are different than baked beans in the US. Try Bush's baked beans for American style baked beans (something bbq or brown sugar flavored). Ranch style (or beans in chili sauce) is what we would toss in a pot to make chili or eat over rice.
I'll second that. You say "baked beans", and I think of Bush's. Or another brand with that more BBQ style sauce.
Yeah these are not baked beans at all, it's not really a fair comparison
Haha he thinks these are America’s version of baked beans??
I prefer low sugar and salt beans then i add BBQ seasoning, chili sauce and sultanas.
Not only that, Heinz is an American brand. You can get virtually the same product from the same company in America with slightly different labeling. That would have been a more fair/interesting comparison.
Upon glancing at the thumbnail, I initially thought these were baked beans canned in ranch dressing and I was absolutely mortified.
I gagged at the thought of it as this was also my first thought. I also am grossed out knowing that I have family who would likely enjoy that.
That would be one of the only ways to ruin beans, which is a shame cause beans are delicious
Reading this made me chuckle. I grew up eating these beans. Never considered someone might read the name and think of ranch dressing.
as an Oklahoman (state above Texas if anyone doesn't know lol) i too was mortified upon reading the thumbnail.
Why were you mortified?
As several folks have pointed out, nobody in Texas considers these baked beans. Bake beans to us is pork n beans with some things added, bacon on the top, and baked in the oven.
Or Bush’s baked beans
I don’t think anyone in America
Considers those baked beans.
I say this, as someone from
America. :)
Agreed (from OK)
These are better for making your own Chili or with some Fried ham.
Add ketchup mustard BBQ sauce onions weiners Nad grill it for an hour
@@buddy7485 simple but sounds pretty damn good
"My preference is to use a can opener, and nobody can stop me." Blimey he's gone mad with power he has!
The reason it doesn't taste of onion is because "sweet onions" are grown in sulfur poor soil so they can't make the eye watering compounds that make them taste like onions. If you've ever heard of Vidalia, Walla Walla, or Maui onions, those are all sweet.
Just was going to comment about the difference between sweet onions. You beat me to it.
This is true. I can eat sweet onions raw and do so, from time to time. No tears, no bite, just that delicious oniony taste. With a little bit of low salt cow cheese, some olive oil and bread. Chef's kiss.
@@aserta ooh reading that description made me hungry!
@@aserta Dad would eat thinly sliced raw ones on buttered bread with salt and pepper.
@@momkatmax Sliced onion sandwiches are good. You could also spoil / improve it by throwing in some cheese.
A great usage for chili beans like these is a Navajo taco: frybread (literally a fried savory dough) topped with beans, cooked ground beef (or something diced up and stewed), lettuce, cheese, etc. It's a cheap and easy meal and tastes incredible.
@@dortek882 Fry bread is not gluten free. Wheat flour, baking powder, yeast, and salt; mix to a soft dough, form into a thick tortilla shape, and fry in hot oil. Also, Navajo tacos, while they are pretty delicious when made right, have an origin that has nothing to do with Navajo Indians whatsoever.
I'd fuck with this
I grew up in Texas eating these beans and love them to this day. It's surreal seeing them being eaten all the way across the pond.
Well i live neer a different pond, and only tryed the uk ones, and find them to taste, kinda almost a little tomato ish, with a ton of bland and suggar. But my options are few in my tiny pond, so i always make my own.
@Krampus I grew up near the Texas coast (now I live in central Texas) but my mom taught me to add BBQ sauce, a little ketchup and sometimes some onion powder and garlic powder. Yum! My fav!
I'm American, and my family, and most Americans, I believe, like these beans as an accompaniment with our BBQ or grilled foods. For example, we would use these with a steak and some potatoes salad, or grilled corn on the cob. Hope that help in the reason for these beans.😀
Yes! I've seen them with jalapeños, but not with onions, though!
I enjoy them with rice n gravy
Yeah but isn't the sauce usually a bit thicker than that?
And I don't think they're usually pinto beans?
@@TobyFloof Pintos are used for everything from BBQ beans to refried beans and everything in between.
Being from Texas this is an odd one for me being "wierd" lol. We always keep some cans of ranch style beans here, but they are a "cheap" food for us poor folks. Usually mix them with other things to make them better.
Beans are cheap source of protein world wide, whole protein when mixed with grains, like beans on toast, beans on rice, in corn tortillas, pita and hummus, etc
Serve with Wolf brand chili and jalapeños, with cornbread on the side.
Not at £2.99 a tin 🙀
@@bobbybobstar1496 Can of beans and a cup of rice can go a LOOOOONG way toward providing you a stomach full of satisfaction and enough energy to get through a day.
I thought the exact same thing!
Another Texan here saying this is Super Normal for us! In my family (Mexican-American), we have them for breakfast with eggs and chorizo and of course some flour tortillas.
Yes. THAT'S the way to have ranch style beans!
You said flour tortillas! We can be best friends now! 😂
It’s fascinating to see these beans on Weird Stuff in a Can. I personally grew up eating ranch style beans in East Texas. Seeing them examined like this is a little surreal.
Also getting a good chuckle out of the people who initially assumed that ranch beans meant baked beans in ranch dressing.
Holy moly! £2.99 for a can of beans😮 Thanks for the review - I definitely won't be trying them at that price - but now you've reviewed them, I don't have to😜
@The like button With a complimentary alcoholic beverage and a massage
yea there like 80 cents in the us
79c in usa
I think baked beans and pork and beans are closer to the English-style beans. Both use the same type of beans (called navy beans in American English). Then we also have Boston baked beans, which replaces the brown sugar with molasses. Ranch-style beans aren’t as common until you get out to the Western and Southwestern US.
I think you would find more Americans serving cornbread or Boston brown bread with baked beans than regular toast. At least in the areas where my family have lived. I’ve always been served cornbread with the Ranch-style beans, as well.
Yes, the sweetness of cornbread compliments these beans nicely.
Howdy from Texas. We do have baked beans that are much more comparable to the UK baked beans. They aren’t exactly the same but much closer than the Ranch Style Beans. In my family we use the ranch style to throw into chili and to make a Mexican casserole. Never had them on toast though. Great video!!
Bush's is great.
@@Reefer191 In the US, real Texas chili contains only spicy beef. No beans. Sacrilegious chili makers add any bean under the sun but by far pintos. Kidney beans tend to be found in Creole spiced or Louisiana rice and beans though pintos are a close second. I've never heard of anyone outside the UK who eats beans on toast. The Heinz beans are usually eaten by children so guessing it's the sweetness. I've never bought a can of Bush beans. Give me a pot of homemade pinto beans over any in a can.
I have to say I'm honored to have something from my local grocery store shelves show up on Weird Stuff in a Can. As a few others have stated, my family primarily uses this sort of thing as an easy filler for chilis and the like.
a thing they like do do over here is sell cans of "pork and beans" that contain one tiny little chunk of pork in the entire can, but it's extremely funny that they'd do the same thing with a single tiny little scrap of onion
My dad's family is from Texas and these were a staple at my grandmother's house. They went well with BBQ, potato salad, pickes, and ice tea.
These "husband pleasin'" ranch style beans (original) are my secret ingredient for chili! The one with onions is weird though, so I guess it really does work as a "Weird stuff in a can". I always keep a half dozen on hand. You can find them for about $1 a can. They have my permission to continue sending the ones with onion in them to the UK. :)
Can you share your chili recipe?
@@soupnfresh Well, it really isn't anything to write home about - even though I talked it up. I Use French's Chili-O (no onion) seasoning as the base. It calls for a pound of ground beef but I specifically get chili grind (which is normally only put out in the winter here). It is a much coarser grind and adds great texture to the chili. I chop and saute a medium onion, then add the beef (saute). I add a 14.5 oz. can of stewed tomatoes. I small can of tomato sauce. The seasoning mix. And finally the can of ranch style beans. I let i simmer for a long time to let the flavors merge adding a bit more water if needed. Years ago I made a different chili using masa harina and beer as part of the ingredients, but this one is simple and tasty enough (for me).
@@stevekemble8911 Thank you for sharing. I bought some cans thinking I would cook something with them but haven't had the time. Your recipe sounds delicious. Thanks again!
I never imagined myself clicking on a video of a man eating a can of beans so fast
I'd recommend a nice big piece of corn bread crumbled into those beans if you're looking for it to be sweeter. Also, they make a jalapeno version of those beans that are really good if the shop you go to happens to have those as well.
Just thought I'd leave a comment saying I've tried your can opener method of opening ring pull cans, and I'm happy to report it's now also my preferred way of opening those kinds of cans too. Most of the time my fingernails are too short to lift the ring pull, and I've never liked using an implement. Using a can opener only takes marginally longer, and doesn't take much more effort, so I think I'll keep using that method to open cans from now on.
@LH Shaw It's a generic can opener. It's not perfect, but it does the job.
In Texas we have baked beans and ranch style. Two different dishes.
This video makes me so happy. I live in Fort Worth and Ranch Style Beans have been a family favorite forever. The savory flavor is inspired by TexMex cooking and are often used as-is out of the can, or as an addition to chili.
Texan here. My family uses these Ranch Style beans as a filler ingredient in chili. When I’m particularly lazy I’ll just mix one can of this with one can of beanless chili and call it a day.
Is it common to use kidney beans in chilli over there? Seems like that's the defacto standard for chilli in the UK.
@@ferrumignis Kidney and Pinto are usually the staples for chili in the states, but I have had 3-bean chili that adds black beans too.
Pinto is definitely used more often for baked and refried beans.
@@ferrumigniskidney is the fan favorite bean in chili in most of America, but in Texas, it's almost always pinto if there are beans in chili at all (most Texans don't put beans in chili)
I would typically eat this brand of beans ( any variety, i usually go for the spicy ones) on top of rice.
Moved to the Dallas/Fort Worth Area about a year ago. Was excited to see a product from here on your show.
I agree with many of the comments. I’m a Texan, and we wouldn’t call these baked beans. Baked beans are distinctly different (your Heinz brand would certainly be considered baked beans here, too). These are served with Texas barbecue. Their origin, I would think, comes more from Mexico than the traditional baked beans from the eastern US. Though Ranch Style beans are still different from Mexico borracho beans and the sort. But I would guess that Texas beans still have more of the Mexican influence.
I would happily watch a video of you making your own baked beans 🫘
Finally weird stuff in a can that I actually eat! Before I knew how to use spices, I'd make fancy chili with a can of ranch style pintos mixed with a can of ranch style black beans. 😂
In grad school (in America) I survived off these mixed with rice and scrambled eggs. Filling and somewhat tasty meal for very cheap. I think where I lived they were around $1.59 for the can. I'll still eat it from time to time as a comfort meal.
UK and us style baked beans are pretty much the same in my experience. But southern, ranch or Texas style baked beans can be way different.
From southern us, been to the uk, and have other other us brands available. I like making them Myself WAAAAY more than from can.
I prefer less sweet baked beans, all of the baked beans I can hardly eat. It tastes wrong to me. But it's more popular than the less sweet variety.
For a more accurate comparison, compare Heinz to Bush's Baked Beans.
And here I am on a Saturday morning sipping coffee and watching a man eating a can of baked beans.
Isn't modern technology wonderful!
If you ever feel like revisiting this subject, I highly recommend Bush's Baked Beans. It has a thicker sauce with some sweetness to it, and adds bacon for a bit of texture variety and some nice bursts of saltiness instead of slightly overwhelming saltiness throughout.
It also would likely be a more "fair" comparison. Ranch Style is more of a Southern brand, but Bush's is all over the country.
If you are looking for a way to soften the beans and thicken the sauce, stirring while simmering at low heat after the recommended cooking time is a method my family has been using for decades. Obviously not going overboard while intentionally overcooking to the point where the beans are mush, but the sauce texture will let you know when it is ready.
May also help to not drink half of the sauce before dumping it on the toast too lol
Oh my God I'm so happy to see something I consider "normal" on weird stuff in a can. I live in the American southwest so these are extremely common. In pretty much every store.
Lol! I love the musical fruit sign on the table 😁
I love your little reference to "the more you eat the more you toot"! 🤣
Beans, as a seed, are considered a "dry fruit" so the rhyme is actually accurate!
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These eaten cold from the can with a spoon was my go-to depression meal in high school. My family did eat them on toast occasionally though! (American)
I was raised on those Ranch beans, delicious and great family gatherings, we always "doctor" them.
Yeah i was expecting to find much more onions in that ranch style can
When I was in college I had a friend who put ranch style beans on bread topped it with grated cheese and toasted it in a toaster oven. Delicious. And I was raised on ranch style beans without the onions. When I was a little girl ranch style had a Mexican rice in a can. We had that sometimes but it wasn't that great.
Did you know that 'UK Baked Beans' came from Native American (not sure what specific group of Native American people, Wikipedia is not specific) foods? Haricot beans are native to the US and English colonists began to take the idea of baked beans and added sugar and/or molasses to them and Heinz brought baked beans to the UK in the 19th century. Fascinating!
@@thatpizzalesbian6984 kind of no, even the haggis was a product of colonisation by the Romans. And of course the whole of the UK was colonised by mainland Europeans. And of course the whole world was colonised by Africans.
@@thatpizzalesbian6984 Yes
Love the flower design on your dessert spoon & your video's 🙏🌷
Growing up, my Mom would mix these with uncle bens wild rice- top with cheese, sour cream, hot sauce- delicious side dish for any grilled meat! Love you Mom
Pinto beans are a very Texas/Southwestern bean, though for what's referred to as American style baked beans, you'll have the same navy/haricot beans you'll find the the UK version. It's mostly the inclusion of molasses in American baked beans that makes the difference.
it’s crazy how everything you make is interesting
That's cos he's a shrimp
It’s that table. It’s fascinating on its own.
I often add powdered onion, powdered garlic and smoked paprika or cayenne to my baked beans.
Pretty cool to see you can get ranch style beans in the UK. Being from Texas I grew up on these beans and still eat them once a week with dinner. They complement almost any entree.
Never tried the Ranch Style beans but as a yank who lived many years in England I confirm that US Heinz are very different from UK Heinz. I buy the latter at a premium on Amazon at about the 2.99 quid you paid for those Texas beans. Love 'em with a fry-up, beans on toast and even a cold can on a late night binge. On the subject of can openers I found a great one that doesnt cut the lid of the can off, it undercuts below the seam. No sharp edges and the top can be dropped on the can if not using all of it creating a perfect seal. Cheers! Love the channel!
I find that what are called "super sweet" onions such as Vidalia and Walla Walla tend to "cook up" in beans unless put in the pot at the end of the cook or on the table. I add chopped onions to my beans just before eating them. That way I can actually taste them and discern a difference between the crunch of the onions and the soft velvety mouthfeel of the beans.
Some people love the Ranch style beans with a much thinner sauce. Many brands that are that style are almost completely Savory with little or no sweetness. A large amount of us in the US prefer the Baked beens style like the Heinz you had or other brands which are both Savory and sweet. Even though I am American I grew up with Beans on Toast due to English grandparents. Love making my own in a slow cooker.
Thanks Mike. As I listened to this description of the Ranch Style Beans, I decided that I would really like them. Grew up in the UK, never been to USA, so don’t have any experience of their version of baked beans.
But I personally find that Heinz beans are too mushy for me, have too much sauce and are too sweet, so I reckon I’m going to have to look out for these. I often get a tin of supermarket brand beans, and add Borlotti beans and chickpeas, plus a touch of barbecue sauce! So thanks for the recommendation.
Also, I sometimes get a tin of nut luncheon meat, and have to think what to make. I live alone and there’s enough for at least five meals for me, so I slice it and freeze in layers of grease proof paper. What I’d really enjoy is to watch you open a can of nut luncheon-meat and describe it, then find low cost things to do with it.
It would be fun for hard up vegetarian or vegan students who I notice often comment on here. But it’s a good source of solid protein that needs you to inspire us! And it is weird, (certainly would be weird for meat eaters!) although I quite like a slice straight out of the can when I first open it.
I do hope we can see you take on this challenge - maybe it’s one for the Autumn so chunks of it could be included in a stew. Great work and thanks so much for the continuing videos that absorb, entertain and inform us with never ending variety. It really is the best thing since sliced bread!
Most baked beans in the us have a bbq like sauce not chili like. Sometimes they will have maple sugar and/or bacon/pork pieces.
Discovered Ranch Style Beans when I lived in New Mexico back in the mid 90's. Love them !
Texan here. I enjoy Ranch Style Beans as a lunch quite often, sometimes with a biscuit. These and Bush's Baked Beans are quite popular with local cowboys as a good, portable meal or meal addition. The difference between Appetite Pleasin' (original) and Sweet Onion flavors is rather slight - the Sweet Onion variety, as Atomic Shrimp noted, has no discernible onions, but has a slight sweet flavor imparted by them.
I like ranch style beans served over rice with cheddar cheese. Definitely not a substitute for baked beans.
Seen a few comments that say they have ranch style beans on rice. Never tried that before but might do now.
i prefer the 'regular' flavored ranch beans without the sweet onion. usually have them warmed alongside a hot dog or sausage, sometimes with a dash of hot sauce. delicious
*@Atomic Shrimp* Ranch beans are not meant to be "BAKED beans", RANCH beans are just that....ranch beans. They aren't intended for sweet stuff, they are intended for use in SAVORY dishes.
Nobody was expecting them to be for sweet dishes.
@@AtomicShrimp LOL, ok maybe sweet dishes was a bit of an exaggeration. What I was sort of getting at was that comparing Ranch Beans to Baked Beans, is rather like comparing apples and oranges. VanCamps Pork and Beans, or Bush's Baked Beans on the other hand are fairly similar to the UK baked beans.
I love the jalapeño ranch style beans, they're my favorite. Especially with home made flour tortillas. So good!
These are everywhere in northern Mexico too. I used to make chilli dogs with them when I was a kid. I clicked as soon as I saw the thumbnail! I'm super curious to see what you think.
I'm from the Midwest, and I can't speak for the whole of America, but our most popular beans are sweet, smokey, brown, and goopy. I was so surprised when I saw that the Ranch Style Beans were red and had a low sugar content. 😅 Bush's baked beans, the most popular brand in Wisconsin, are widely different from UK beans and Ranch Style Beans. The onion variety has 13g of added sugars per serving, navy beans, and no tomato. I have tried UK beans, I enjoy how light and tangy they are, I feel much healthier eating them. ❤️ It's so interesting how much baked beans vary around the world. I hope you have a beautiful day mister Atomic Shrimp. 🌈💖✌️
Ha! This style of beans (and brand of canned beans) is very popular in the states. Love this.
I'll mix this type of beans with sweet corn to get a contrast in texture and sweetness going.
I did a bit of googling and I'm astounded to discover that ranch style beans and cowboy beans aren't the same thing!
Also, for a tasty recipe for beans try adding a few teaspoons of Frank's hot sauce and some barbecue sauce to a can of Branston baked beans. Really does the trick on a few slices of toasted doorstop farmhouse bread.
Wow, for £2.99 you could buy 14 cans of the baked beans I normally buy (and have some change)! Interesting taste test, they look nice.
Where I grew up, Alabama, I think the baked beans are a lot more like the ones you're used to. Instead of tomato sauce they use barbecue sauce, often with some bits of shredded pork mixed in. I suspect they'd be much sweeter, and the sauce is definitely much thicker and more syrupy. Still made with pinto beans, though.
THREE POUNDS A CHUFFING CAN??!
"musical fruit" in the background lol very nice touch!
I love Ranch Style beans simply by themselves, so adding sweet onions is interesting.
After my first trip to Britain as a child, I was totally hooked on baked beans. In those days, they were not yet available in Germany. So my mum went through the trouble to find a traditional recepy for New England baked beans. It was made with kidney beans, bacon and real maple sirup and had to bake in the oven for several hours. She worked so hard for it, and I was so disapointed! Her recepy was very good, maybe even superior, but it was not the kind of baked beans I had expected. Years later, I was so glad when the common market gave us "British" baked beans.....
I grew up 40 miles away from the plant that originally canned these. I was so sad when Conagra bought the brand and literally closed the iconic Ft.Worth plant and manufactured them elsewhere. Not sure if they are making em in Texas again but it doesn’t matter. Conagra committed the mortal sin of changing the original recipe by adding cheap soybean oil and lessening the amount of beef fat in the recipe 😡. Never have tasted as good since. I still occasionally serve them as a side dish or put them in my chili as a time saver but continue to miss the original flavor. They cost around $1.15 a can right now in Texas. ❤️❤️ the video!
UK beans are so sweet I can't eat them. It's like eating syrup
lol, 'nobody can stop me' :D
The most British thing to say about opening baked beans.
ranch style beans with jalapeno are sooo good, and ranch style beans are very different from other American baked beans
Hey! That’s my town. I grew up with people whose parents worked at the factory. They aren’t often eaten straight out of the can, but as a part of a larger recipe, like Jenn Grace was saying.
As a Brit living in the USA.. I get the weirdness of these compared to our homestyle Heinz ones.. I miss the old beans and was more interested in you tasting them!. bringing back memories. LOL..
To a lot of living in the US this episode is essentially Normal Stuff in a Can
I stopped buying them beans years ago because of rising prices and lowering standards. We have something called chili beans and (not chili w/beans) it is like bean soup flavored like (real) chili.
BBQ beans can is usually a can or 3 of Boston baked beans with chopped sweet onion and strips of (stripey) bacon on top thrown into a rectangular (9' x 13' for example) and baked till bacon is cooked, bbq sauce and various spices are often added or instead of bacon, chunks of brisket are used.
Pinto beans are cheap and readily available in Texas and while most recipes for "a pot of beans" calls for some form of meat, the recipe I use is vegetarian not by design but by cost and availability.
Don't like pinto bean texture? Try mayacoba beans, same flavor, only very mild and a consistent creamy/buttery mouth feel.
Cornbread in Texas has added sugar/honey (a point of contention with some of the Southern states) winch helps with spicy foods.
For me, adding chiles to dishes is more about flavor and less about heat. Whether fresh, dried, pickled or smoked the sheer amount of varieties and different flavors on offer have skewed my perception away from recipes from places that put an emphasis on one particular pepper or another because of popularity or whatever.
Bolners Fiesta brand is a decent place to start if you want "authentic " flavor (whatever that means to you).
I'm going to hop on the "these aren't baked beans!" train if only because I hate baked beans and like ranch style beans! They taste very different. Like a couple others, when we think of baked beans most think of Busch's baked beans. The brown sugar ones are popular. I hope you can get your hands on some and do a comparison with all 3 😂
I really like Ranch Style beans, hands down my favorite beans. When I’m lazy and want a quick easy meal, I’ll just grab a can out of the pantry and eat it out of the can with a spoon.
If I’m actually using them properly, I’ll mix a can in with a box of shells and cheese as well as a pound of ground beef. Really brings everything together quite nicely.
As others have said, Ranch Style beans are delicious but not comparable to your baked beans. We have different kinds of canned beans, our Pork and beans are more like your Heinz beans. Baked beans in the US are much thicker and sweeter.
... and you also love the smokey baked bean varieties, especially with bits of pork.
@@rovcanada1 Can confirm. Those are my favorite kind lol
I am another Texan chiming in to say that these are intended to be used in chili or mashed up and used as a bean burrito filling, and are not intended to be used like baked beans at all. For BBQ cookouts, we often have both types at the same table: Spicy chili with ranch style beans in it, and then sweet baked beans as well. They go great side-by-side, but are not intended to be a replacement for one another.
Imagine what sweet baked beans would be like in your chili, or what chili beans on toast would be like. It is just not how they were intended to be eaten. I have not tried the sweet onion variety, but I stick with the classic. Delicious.
Fort Worth, TX native here: I don’t know that anyone would think of these if someone said “baked beans” … I certainly wouldn’t. So either what I’d consider baked beans would have derived from the UK style baked beans, or it’s something different altogether.
In general like other commenters have said, You’d expect to have these with something like barbecue. I tend to think of this as chili beans without the meat and not as much tomato. (Though I am in the no-beans chili camp.)
Also, I don’t pay much attention to these (I’m not a huge fan though I don’t hate them) but I don’t know I’ve ever seen multiple versions. Onions may just be a selling point and one without onions may not exist. I’m not sure.
£2.99 for a can of beans lol I thought I had misheard. You could always add additional cumin and paprika to standard baked beans lol texture and saltiness will be different. Lol. Love this series and great to see other countries canned foods which are not normally seen he in the UK.
Maybe these beans are not to be eaten on their own? Maybe to be mixed in stews to add additional texture and saltiness?
Hi AS. Someone probably already mentioned this in the comments but those Ranch Style beans are not our usual style of baked beans here in the US. We do have the style you're familiar with but it's called pork and beans (because they're cooked with a piece of salt pork) and they're put out by Campbell's. The Ranch Style are sold here at Walmart. However, the majority of baked beans here are in the New England style. By that i mean they have a molasses base as opposed to tomato (Heinz) or cumin (ranch). B&M, Bush's and other brands primarily use molasses or in some cases, brown sugar. I've had home made baked beans in this style and they're delicious. Often served with hot dogs in butter grilled rolls.
Grew up on Heinz in NY (now in AUS), and both in NY and AU, the Heinz baked beans have enough sugar in them to give a grown horse cavities :) I've tried Heinz BB's again about a year ago out of curiosity and a craving, weirdly enough... I couldn't stomach them, just far too sweet for my taste buds nowadays... and this is from a guy who still loves his cakes, cookies and pastries...
Them ranch style beans are a staple where I’m from! 🤠
I was born in Texas, and baked beans were a staple food in my house growing up. My mom always simmered them with a ham bone and scraps, usually after big holidays where we had ham. Beans and cornbread is a great comfort food! I feel like the canned beans never taste quite right compared to family recipes, but that's true of most foods I suppose. I'd love to see you try your hand at making cornbread sometime.
Holy cow I have a load of those cans (the ones with jalapeños) in my pantry and we bought them for 70 or 80 cents a can! 😱 That is a lot of money you paid for that!
My husband eats those beans (not the sweet onions) with a slice of American cheese on top.
I guess that might be a Texas thing???
I don't eat those at all. I prefer black beans.
I'm with you on the can opener. This week, for the second time, I have cut myself on a pull-tab can. Never again!
I have a can opener like yours. Now I just need to get my family to use it the right way up.
I'm from California and I've never had seen Ranch Beans with Onions before, I've had the Original and Jalapeno variety ( the Jalapeno is present and adds heat and flavor but there isn't much a difference besides that) . I'd imagine though with the amount of cumin and spices it'd be hard to taste any onion at all over the spices. When I'm feeling particularly lazy or hungry for something South-Western I'll fix up some chopped aromatics like onions, pepper, garlic and add spices or other beans and vegetables to stretch out the dish. If you like Cumin or Chili beans there's a strong chance you'll like these.
Heinz baked beans straight from the can were my go to "home alone" food as a kid so in this case i will always have a preference for the brand product
Hello from the USA, here is how you eat ranch style or baked beans in America. Empty the can into a shallow baking dish, the beans need to reach halfway up the dish or they will dry out too much. If you want them a little sweeter add a tablespoon of brown sugar, otherwise just place them in the oven at a low temperature, and bake until the become thick and sticky, DO NOT eat them on toast!!! Generally we have them with fried chicken and potato salad. Hope this helps, give it a try.
As someone who lives in America and lives in the south, I really want to see you try American Southern biscuits and gravy.
Speaking from a fort worth native myself. These are best with grilled/roasted beef or poultry. I enjoy these best with a rotisserie chicken and some greens
I would love to see you make a "pork and beans" style baked bean dish common in some regions of the United States to see what you think of it. I would gladly share a recipe if you are interested.
£2.99 for beans!!! 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
that is so funny I literally just had a can of these for dinner last night I also have three more my pantry along with six cans of ranch style beans with jalapeno you should try those those are awesome
Here in the southern US, we put our BBQ baked beans on bread and toast quite often. I used to put them between 2 slices of bread or toast and eat it like a bean sandwich. Messy but tasty
Hi Mike, a bit of Tabasco will go a long way towards dressing these up. Here in New Mexico we put Hatch Valley green chile, roasted and chopped, or as a red sauce, on them, but I'm not sure you can get our red and green chile where you live.
This is really really funny for me to come across. I am from Texas, and my father ate these every morning from the age I was 3-13. But no sweet onion, just the original. I’m actually nostalgic for the ranch style can. Always keep a can just in case. I think here it’s only .50 cents a can? Possibly a dollar. VERY much chili flavored, we would add Cholula or Tabasco on top too (hot sauce) and since I’m Mexican, eat with tostadas or tortillas and eggs.