All your bean recipes sound good, LOL, except that I will not try the bean and tuna combination.
I have cooked beans all my life, in every style of cooker.
Prefer cooking them in cast iron on a wood fire, as I think that the cooking on high heat and then cooling down, until the next batch of wood is added plays a part in how they taste, it works on a wood cookstove, or the campfire.
As a child, beans and corn was our diet, meat was a rare luxury, so started cooking them on my own by age7 or 8 and still do.
Thanks for all the information, I forget that beans are not common food for everyone.
>>>Prefer cooking them in cast iron on a wood fire, as I think that the cooking on high heat and then cooling down, until the next batch of wood is added plays a part in how they taste, it works on a wood cookstove, or the campfire.<<<
Mmmm, I particularly like them cooked in an open pot on a fire... That smoke flavor just adds that extra touch... Yes, I’m sure there is a bit of wood ash in there too - Hey, wood ash = alkali... Maybe that helps make them cook so well... LOL
1st wife had an uncle in Oklahoma who ate pinto beans three meals a day... Fried eggs with beans for breakfast, beans and corn bread for lunch and beans with pork steak and fried potatoes for dinner EVERY DAY. Wouldn’t even consider trying anything else. Definitely not a balanced diet, but he was in his 60’s then and still going strong last I heard. (30 years later).