What's wrong with our black beans

[sniffa]

I'm making a black bean soup and I just opened the Goya black beans and emptied it into the soup. Some liquid came out and the beans remained. The beans now are trapped inside in a purplish, gelatinized version. Did I just ruin the soup that I've been working on for hours and the money I spent on the ingredients?

[MadMaddie]

1. Yea....those beans do no look good.

If your gut tells you something is wrong go with it. You don't want your real gut and butt telling you something you already knew in an explosive way..!! Just sayin

:puke:

[sniffa]

3. I didn't add the mass

It's now a bacon and kidney bean soup... but whatever liquid was in the can made it into the soup. :(

[sniffa]

2. Apparently they're spoiled

I only had a little bit of the liquid go in the soup - are we going to be ill if we eat it?

:cry:

[flvegan]

4. Is it possible that the water and bean/oil/goop separated?

I dunno.

[sniffa]

5. According to teh google

they're spoiled. :(

[flvegan]

7. Crap. Do you think you wrecked your soup?

[sniffa]

11. I'm eating it now

tastes delish and I'm not yet dead.

Bi-Baby looked it up and Goya says it's ok. :o

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Update: Goya says they're ok, apparently we're not alone:

From a blog:

I jumped on Google and found one blog post about the same issue, on Erin Cooks. She just kept buying more cans, but we don't roll that way. We sent the following note to Goya:

Goya,

We just threw out six cans of "Goya Black Beans (Negro Frijoles)" because they were all spoiled. Each can had greyish-white foam and chunks on top and had a bizarre odor. We regularly buy Goya black beans and kidney beans and have never seen this before.

In addition to ruining the dinner we were going to make tonight -- we were shocked to see this many cans that were bad. We checked the expiration date on the bottom of each can before throwing them out and each had the same expiration date in 2011; they were in a package of six purchased from a BJs in Queens.

We would, at the minimum, like a refund for these!

Exactly two weeks later (this past Friday), we received a response from Goya:

Hello and thank you for contacting GOYA Foods.

This is in response to your email, concerning the above-mentioned product. We always appreciate when consumers such as you take the time to bring concerns to our attention.

We certainly regret that you felt dissatisfied with our product. Goya values all our consumers by providing the best quality products available.

We appreciate the concerns that you have raised and have carefully reviewed them.

In response to the complaint, we advise you that due to the warmer weather coming in sooner then expected, the black beans were growing in very dry causing the liquid to solidify and a higher amount of starch, (white/grayish substance) to accumulate leaving the beans in a mashed state.

A test has been conducted to make sure there is nothing wrong with the beans and it turns out that this poses no health hazard and nutrient value is the same

As a token of our appreciation for contacting us, we are sending you a reimbursement for this product.

Kindest Regards,

GOYA Foods, Inc.

Hmmmmm....

[Lasher]

23. Nice reaction from Goya.

I'll feel good abut buying food from that company.

[JVS]

8. Jesus! It looks like shit! I read about this though.

I don't have a subscription, but IIRC America's Test Kitchen did an article about how to keep black beans from becoming not black. I believe they used baking soda in the water. I'll look some more.

http://www.cooksillustrated.com/recipes/login.asp?docid=6399

[JVS]

9. Yep. Baking soda

http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/006252black_bean_soup.php

[DarkTirade]

10. ... you were just trying to find SOME way to post your fecal matter without it getting deleted,

weren't you?

[XemaSab]

12. If I saw BIG RED CHUNKS in the bowl

I would go to the emergency room. :scared:

[flvegan]

13. 2 DUers, 1 can?

[sniffa]

14. Is there a Youtube genre out yet

of grandmothers' reactions to 2 DUers, 1 can?

[AlCzervik]

15. looks like they included a layer of free spam.

[sniffa]

16. But spam is delicious and it looks as such.

:shrug:

[AlCzervik]

17. you know the spam can is now keyless right? That's all kinds of wrong.

[sniffa]

18. I miss the key then.

:(

Is it pull tab now? I haven't had it in years but I think the last time I did it did not have the key.

[AlCzervik]

20. yes it's some kind of pop top deal, that just ruined it for me, not that i was really eating

spam but damn there's another childhood memory just gone.

[TK421]

19. The problem is that it looks like what most proctologists see on their nastiest exams...

but for starters...just try heating this shit up for a while!!!

[grasswire]

21. I always pour the can of beans into a strainer and rinse them...

...because I don't want any kind of extra liquid in whatever's cooking. Black beans, garbanzos, red beans, whatever. They all go in the strainer for a rinse.

[marzipanni]

22. Those look more like refried beans

but that blob in the north-northwest sector looks suspiciously mucoid in nature. :o