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When I have beans on toast, I have the whole tin as shown on the right in the picture.
Was told at work that the correct amount for a single serving was the tin on the left and that I was being a Gannet.
Problem is, the smaller tin would leave no extra sauce to wipe up at the end and not enough beans to fill me up.
Am I a greedy gannet who needs to exercise some portion control or are my work colleagues talking drivel??
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Seems okay, it's what I do.

The beans have to be poured straight from the tin onto the toast - none of this reheating business, unless you actually want horrible grungy sauce and mushy beans.

I like 4 slices of buttered toast with one spoon full of beans on each.

ewww

Fwiw i'd never even consider the smaller tin, too much effort warming them up for so little. Rather just have toast with butter.

Same with soup, a portion is half a can but I usually have the whole can when I have it.

I don't think there's anything wrong with, just that official portion sizes are small

I have the smaller tin for the reverse reason, I like to limit my bean juice.

I imagine this debate could divide opinion almost as much as the Thatcher thread.

How could you expect to repel an invading army with just a small can of beans inside you?

I used to be a 'big tin of beans, pour it all over the place and make a right mess' guy, but then I found these.

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Do you pull the plastic off all 4 pots simultaneously and 'ave the lot?

The big tin is a regular serving for any grown man. Would be happy to have a snap pot if I lived in a doll's house.

wtf

Beans with sausages ftw  ;D

pardon?

your pour the beans straight from the tin to the toast?

pardon?

you cook them in the tin?



next you'll be telling me you keep ketchup in the fridge.

I stick a nob of butter in the beans when heating to actually help the sauce go more 'grungy' or however you want to describe it.

Cheesy beans VS Normal beans?

My vote goes with cheese everyday

Have to be served with fresh green chillies finely diced.

I made a random discovery when I was hungover on a sunday and had no bread in the house, I did however have a garlic nan bread in the freezer. Beans with sausages with cheese on top on a garlic nan bread is now my fav comfort food  :)

Cook? They're already cooked. As in 'baked' beans.

but how do you heat them up to put them on the toast if they are in the tin?

Not done cold beans since uni (funnily enough), but a rite of passage, for sure.

Mohican, you're instincts are correct re tin sizing. The small ones are for ladies, vegetarians and generic stereotypes.

3 slices of toast & one tin of beans... used to be a heinz man but now i'm all about...

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Are they just in tomato sauce or some Branston stuff?

Tomato sauce, they have simply improved heinz baked beans.  I urge you to try a tin.  Don't go crazy & get a four pack but pick up one can & give them a try.

The type of beans is another thread itself. Makes no odds to me
as I normally have industrial amounts of Tabasco sauce
in mine.

make sure you don't keep the beans more than 2-3 years, you won't be able to get a refund!

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Pretty shocked at some of the "de-rail" comments... Did you lot sign up to blonde last week? The de-rail is what blonde is all about!

I like to add tobasco to my beans but normally add after cooking with lots of black pepper

I normally whack in half a jar of jalopeno's. Tastes incredible

Rebranded Crosse & Blackwell innit?

Small tin with 2 toast for me.

Large tin gets shared between me and 2 kids.

Cold beans??????? Urgghhh

Heinz beans still taste the best though.

(And yes, I keep ketchup in the fridge)

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I have also converted..

Ketchup in the fridge.

Might as well put your slippers in the oven and your TV remote in the bread bin.

Lol I keep most of my sauces in the fridge I think.

Will give those a punt at the weekend, have they got a version with sausages?  ;whistle;

What's wrong putting sauces in the fridge?

According to google they do, though i've not seen them - however i'm not really one to dawdle when shopping, i just get what i need and go.

This is the most divisive issue on blonde, so we should probably agree to disagree.

Nothing wrong with it because the fridge is where it belongs.  /debate

Nothing, but only the hygienic half of us do it by the sound of it  :)

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I blummin love the internet, BTW!

But before you fob me off is it harmful in the fridge? Does the cold kill the flavour? Does leaving it out the fridge add something?

Don't suppose it makes any difference. It isn't in the fridge when you buy it, so I don't put it in the fridge when I bring it home. I don't worry about preserving it. Tomato sauce doesn't last Chez Tal.

source: Heinz Ketchup

That's best quality - not necessarily best flavour; cold suppresses the flavour of everything.

Cheers JMW. Is the taste suppressed in brown sauce as well when cold?

So Tal it's just down to preference then.

Fair enough. Never been one to worry about being a lone ranger.

Ha! Another debate - which brown sauce? cheapo Brown, Daddies, HP or Branston brown ???

I almost forgot to check what the world of mothers thinks:

http://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/general-coffeehouse-chat-514/coffee-lounge-18/839683-ketchup-fridge-cupboard.html

Always quote your sauces, kids.

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Never thought of putting ketchup in the fridge before. Doesn't that mean that you're putting really cold sauce onto your hot food?

Mine can stay in the cupboard for months between uses and it's always fine when I come to use it.

I keep my fridge in a cupboard. Does that count?

Tbh a lot of sauces are to be had with hot food. Why the hell would you want to put COLD sauce on HOT food?

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Let's try to stay on point guys...

Branston > Heinz

Cold, stove top cooked or nuked?

Nuked.  Who has time for warming beans through in a pan and the additional washing up that brings?  5 mins in the microwave.

5 minutes is serious nukage. like 3 is fine i guess.

HP>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>any other brand

2 mins, quick stir and then another 30 seconds, works fine.  5, wow, there'd be no juice left!

2mins 40secs is perfect, stir before pouring the entire serving over four slices of buttered toast.

NB - That's butter, not a substitute for butter, and the toast should be from a proper loaf, not some poor limp slice of plastic bagged factory output