Smoked Baked Beans

Start three days out, day 1 prep is about 15 minutes, day two is about 1/2 hour and day three about 1/2 hour

Author

Rich Rich

Food

Prep Time: 07:00

Recipe Time: 07:00

Temperature : 150F / 65.6C

Ingredients

• 2 pounds dry great northern beans
• 1 pound double smoked bacon cut into squares
• Baking soda
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
• 2 tbsp honey
• 2 tbsp double strength cider vinegar
• Kosher salt
• Fresh ground pepper
• Tomato paste (optional and controversial)

Directions

1. Set your Anova Sous Vide Precision Cooker to 150ºF / 65.6ºC
2. Put beans in a bean pot and cover with COLD water
3. Add a tsp of baking soda, mix, cover and set aside overnight
4. One day before game day drain and rinse beans, pick through and remove any loose skins, partial or blown beans or anything untoward. Set aside
5. Try out bacon squares In a heavy Dutch oven
6. Remove bacon when crisp and reserve, pour out excess grease and add bacon back.
7. Place beans into pot and cover with COLD water and a pinch of baking soda
8. Bring to a boil and turn off
9. Do not add the vinegar but do add honey, sugar, molasses, salt, pepper, tomato paste and fold together
10. Remove Dutch oven and cover, place in refrigerator overnight.
11. On game day remove Dutch oven from the fridge and smoke the beans without a lid for 4 fifteen minute turns at <150’ gently folding the beans for a minute between each 15 minute stretch of smoking
12. Set your Anova Sous Vide Precision Cooker to 150.0ºF / 65.6ºC.
13. Place a vac bag in a 3.5qt green-top food storage bin for stability and turn down the top 4”
14. Carefully put the entire bean mixture into the vac bag, turn up the sides and seal
15. Consider double bagging
16. Put the beans into the water and cook for 7 hours or lid the Dutch oven and bake covered at 225’ in a convection oven. Same 7 hours
17. Add the vinegar, fold and check/adjust seasonings using salt, pepper and white sugar. Serve when seasonings pass muster after removal from the cooking appliance

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1. If you use sous vide you can put the beans back into the bean pot and place in a 450’ oven uncovered for 40 minutes before serving to achieve the character of conventionally prepared beans