Smoked Baked Beans

Ingredients for 25

• 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

• Step 1

  Set your Anova Sous Vide Precision Cooker to 150ºF / 65.6ºC

• Step 2

  Put beans in a bean pot and cover with COLD water

• Step 3

  Add a tsp of baking soda, mix, cover and set aside overnight

• Step 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

• Step 5

  Try out bacon squares In a heavy Dutch oven

• Step 6

  Remove bacon when crisp and reserve, pour out excess grease and add bacon back.

• Step 7

  Place beans into pot and cover with COLD water and a pinch of baking soda

• Step 8

  Bring to a boil and turn off

• Step 9

  Do not add the vinegar but do add honey, sugar, molasses, salt, pepper, tomato paste and fold together

• Step 10

  Remove Dutch oven and cover, place in refrigerator overnight.

• Step 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

• Step 12

  Set your Anova Sous Vide Precision Cooker to 150.0ºF / 65.6ºC.

• Step 13

  Place a vac bag in a 3.5qt green-top food storage bin for stability and turn down the top 4”

• Step 14

  Carefully put the entire bean mixture into the vac bag, turn up the sides and seal

• Step 15

  Consider double bagging

• Step 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

• Step 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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• Step 0

  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

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