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Coffee bean is goat and maybe isn't even a real bean? Idk how beans work.

Is peanut a bean?

Best: Mr.

Worst: Lima

I like chickpeas, they're very versatile. I'll happily chow down on a bowl of chickpeas tossed with olive oil and red vinegar. Green and black lentils hold their texture nicely; I'm not fond of how easily yellow lentils cook to mush.

Never met a bean I didn't love.

Best: Great Northern.

Worst: Mexican Jumping. Wow do those taste terrible.

Black beans are the best.

Lima beans are the worst, by far.

Favorite: soy beans. So versatile.

Least favorite: great northern, if we're sticking to items traditionally called "beans" and not other legumes. Oh wait, chickpeas are also called garbanzo beans. I amend my answer.

So its not like its my favorite taste wise but I love lentils because you can cook it with rice in a rice cooker and its a super easy realtively nutritious and cheap meal.

Favourite: Chick Peas

Least: Fava beans

I started getting fancy heirloom beans from Rancho Gordo and their giant lima beans are amazing. They’re fresh and if you soak them too long they sprout. Honestly all their beans are delicious.

I've never had a bean variety I disliked, but black beans are my favorite and most common bean craving.

I think least favorite goes to baked beans, if I can count those as a kind of bean. I don't like their weird sweetness + smokiness combo (sweet + smoky can be good, but here it never worked for me) and also I have a Pavlovian negative association between them and being dragged to cookouts where people were like "Sure, we have a vegetarian option! Baked beans! ... It's cool that they have bacon in them, right?"

If I can't count baked beans because they're not a variety of beans, then Lima beans. There are good Lima beans, but if you run into them in the wild, they're probably mushy and poorly prepared.

As for black-eyed peas, I like to cook them up in an Instant Pot with seasonings of smoked paprika, nutritional yeast, chilli powder, and hefty amounts of garlic and onion, then stir in a cooking green at the end and eat them with corn chips or over cornbread. Oh, and drizzle them with a good extra-virgin olive oil and add a splash of lemon juice before serving.

Chick peas are my favorite, hands down!

Hummus? Yes please!

Aquafava for egg substitute in mayonnaise? Oh fuck yeah!

Simply pan fry with seasoning for a crispy treat? Stop! I can only eat so much!

Least favorite? Don't really think I have one. I even liked lima beans as a kid.

fave: Beluga lentils. i like the texture and taste and they’re just neat. Hard to find around here, though.

no: lima. But i also used to despise chickpeas until someone showed me The Way

Kidney beans are disgusting.

Navy beans are my least favorite. Too small to offer much substance from texture. I really only keep them around to blend them to thicken a soup.

Kidney are the best for flavor, color and texture. But as a kid who grew up in formerly Mexican territory I will always love the versatility of pintos. Solid or mushed. Just great all around.

I haven't done the experiments I want with cranberry beans to see if they are interchangeable with pintos for some applications.

I like a black beans and garbanzo beans. Black beans in a salad and garbanzos in curry, hummus, or falafel.

I enjoy black eyed peas cooked with a ham hock, but that’s not for everyone. I like them extra mushy, with hot sauce and spinach added right at the end :)

I adore beans, but there's usually some trade-offs, complications and permutations involved.

Kidney beans are absolutely awesome, yes, but typically take a long time to cook. And yes, of course I know about pre-soaking them the night before. But here's a funny story for you--

Some years back I bought myself a big, clunky grain / whatever grinder. It's this steel-constructed tank that clamps on to a table, etc almost like one of those badass, olde-timey corn-shuckers:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LDDLIDMZabg

Now, that excellent device indeed allowed me to throw bags of kidney beans (and other big beans, like Limas) in to the hopper, and grind them in to much-smaller size, which naturally cooked much faster. Problem? Weirdly (and I still don't know why this is, exactly), the kidney beans in particular lost... all that unique, delicious flavor of theirs. So in the end, it pretty-much amounted to eating 'bean-gruel.' Holy fluff, that was not what I signed up for. :S

Nowadays I just add a bit of baking soda to the beans, and Robert's your avuncular figure. :D

Kidney beans suck, they’re just filler in shitty chili.