Maybe your bucket-o-salt can become a salt lick for your critters?
Good luck with your beans!
The beans aren’t super soft but they’re not crunchy either. Definitely edible. Also added a smoked ham hock to it that was kinda freezer burned.
I’m going to try the baking soda soak next time. The juices could be a little thicker and beans a little softer.
Prepping practice meal. LOL We always keep 4-5 gallons of rice on hand too so it’s good to know we could have beans and rice. Close to ten gallons before cooking.
Just talking to the wife and we figure the kids were toddlers when we bought the beans. They’re 18/20 years old now so the beans are about 15+ years old and they haven’t always been kept under the best conditions. They’ve sat for the past several years in a camper that has no heat or A/C so they’ve gone from below freezing to up in the 90s in a square frosting bucket. The round frosting buckets have a rubber o-ring but the square ones don’t.