8 Days too soon!!!! now what???

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I was asked (again) this year to make my famous BBQ smoked baked beans for our annual company Christmas party. The rest of the food is being catered, here's the menu.

Date: 12/12 at ~12:00 in room 1007
What : Red Hot and Blue (Pork, Brisket, Chicken, Sausage, Mild Sauce, Cole Slaw, Mashed Potatoes, Potato Salad and a vegetarian dish)

Price - $10

Dummy me, I thought yesterday was the 8th or 9th and my only weekend to smoke my beans. So I smoked my beans yesterday for 5 hours in an old log burner, problem is, it's not until 8 days from now!!! Arg!!! this batch turned out great too!! I don't know if I can freeze them and have them NOT come out mushy, or maybe I should just make another batch?????

My beans have one lb of bacon in it along with some pineapple chunks (secret ingrediant).

Right now they're in a HUGE crockpot in the fridge out in the garage. Should I freeze them? or make another batch??

thanks

dan

12/4/069:06 AM

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WoodysSmokeShack (Guest)

Beans are cheap to make if you want to do them again. But I have frozen beans and as long as you dont over reheat then they come out fine.
Woody

12/4/069:31 AM

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Thanks for the reply Woody, I agree, it is a cheap side dish, just wanted to avoid the NEW batch and 5 hours of smoking. Not to mention, what to do with my current batch??

dan

12/4/069:59 AM

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Yup, you can freeze the beans. They will never be as good as non-froze though.

Be careful with the cooling/reheating of beans though. There are enzymes present which for reasons I'm not allowed to divulge (OK, don't remember) are especially susceptible to fostering the growth of S. Typhimurium or Enteritidis. Everybody is very careful with cooling and reheating meats (right?) but sometimes the beans get overlooked. All it takes is once.

12/4/0610:39 AM

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I went ahead and placed the beans in the freezer. I will probably go ahead and make another batch, after all, MY BEANS can't be mushy. I'll take both batches in, which will be a total of 6 - #10 cans......whew!!! that's going to produce a lot of by-product!!!!!

12/5/067:24 AM

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Just an update......smoked up another batch yesterday and took last weeks batch out of the freezer and placed in the fridge to de-frost. I believe the frozen beans will turn out fine....we'll know Thursday..
dan

12/11/061:36 PM

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Former Member

Excellent point Kinsman. Especially considering beans are much harder to cool that meats. You need cooling sticks for the pot or you need to pour them into a few full-size shallow metal containers for rapid cooling.

12/12/062:05 PM

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Originally posted by Kinsman:
Yup, you can freeze the beans. They will never be as good as non-froze though.

Be careful with the cooling/reheating of beans though. There are enzymes present which for reasons I'm not allowed to divulge (OK, don't remember) are especially susceptible to fostering the growth of S. Typhimurium or Enteritidis. Everybody is very careful with cooling and reheating meats (right?) but sometimes the beans get overlooked. All it takes is once.

Are you saying if beans are thawed and then reheated in a crockpot dangerous??

I just had our annual Christmas party today and the batch I smoked this past Sunday was cleaned out. The backup batch that was frozen, then allowed to thaw in the fridge was heated in a crockpot, but now placed back in the frige. Are you saying this 2nd batch could be dangerous... If it is I'd like to dump them out before leaving work today....

dan

12/14/062:31 PM

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