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I was always kind of afraid of dealing with beans but it's made out to be harder than it is. A can of beans is now approaching $1 US, and I use them quite frequently in soups and chili, etc. Well, a pound of dry beans also costs around $1 US (or $2 US, depending on make and model) - but a pound of dry beans makes roughly about 6 cans' worth of beans. From a cost perspective, it's a no-brainer.

Pictured: my favorite, Navy beans, which have an almost ham-like flavor to them - and they're the cheapest, about $1.29/lb by me at the blue box, I'm sure you could get them cheaper at bulk stores.

Beans need to be kept in the fridge and will go bad if you don't use them in less than a week unless you use salt, so I do. With salt, they keep for up to two weeks, maybe more, I couldn't really say because I use them (also they taste better with salt, obviously).

Easy to make, too. They tell you to meticulously look for rocks, I just don't have time for that. Never ran into one yet. I fill a medium pan with 3-4 cups of water, 1/2 Tbs kosher salt and 1/2 lb (~225g) beans sometime before I go to bed. In the morning, I turn the burner on high until it boils (~7 minutes - be careful, it will boil over) and then turn to lowest setting, put a lid on (slightly cocked) and let them simmer for 2 hours. After that, drain them in a colander and run cold water on them until they lose their heat, put them in a container and into the fridge until you need them in soup or chili or whatever.

Worried that beans can be toxic because you heard that somewhere? That's only bigger beans like Kidney beans and in any case the cooking is what kills the toxicity (boiling for >30m). Small beans like navy beans and red beans you don't have to sweat it at all. In theory you should also drain/replace the water after the soaking to eliminate flatulence-inducing saccharides. I just don't and honestly can't tell any difference, but you may be more or less sensitive than I am.

Enjoy your beans!

It used to be posts made to PCMR about Macs were pretty reliable. The whole thread would be users mocking the post and shitting on Macs. To say that PCMR was no friend of Mac users has been an exercise in understatement since Reddit's inception.

Contrast the old reality with this thread posted today and I defy you to deny that Reddit has been nearly completely overtaken by astroturfing bots.

And I say this as a Mac LOVER, ffs.

Saw a thread discussing the varieties of frozen pizza and it made me glad I make my own.

The pizza pictured is 16", costs about $2.75 to make and serves 2 people comfortably. Oh, and taste? There's really no comparison.

The only real barrier to anybody making pizza like this is just the willingness to practice. It does take a while to get it down, but once you do it's like second nature - and so worth it!

You can see content, but comment sections all say "there doesnt seem to be anything here."

This behavior is not the same on old.lemmy.dbzer0.com.

I apologize in advance.

Alexander, although being a Klingon by birth, was weak, having been raised by his only half Klingon mother among humans rather than Klingons. Whereas Jake, although human, was raised with a mind to take care of himself because of his absent father.

I believe Jake could take him. Hell, I believe Nog could take him.

I've noticed recently that a couple comments I made don't show up in my user page. If someone responds to my comment I can get to it through the notifications page, otherwise, I have no way to find/see it.

The message I can see through responses I can see was posted on to lemmygrad.ml, but I only ever use my lemmy.world account, so I assume the reason it doesn't show up on my user page has something to do with federation, but I just made a post that shows it was posted on lemmy.ml but it shows up on my user page. Is there any way to know when a post you're making might not show up on your user page?