Tried to stretch a $20 grocery run with dried beans and set off my smoke alarm twice

Wren Ramirez · 2026-09-30T08:40:02.814506+00:00

Tried to stretch a $20 grocery run into a whole week of dinners with dried beans instead of cans, and soaked a pound of them overnight in my tiny Denver kitchen. I dumped them in a pot the next evening, walked away to fold laundry, and came back to a scorched mess and the smoke alarm screaming at me. How do you all keep dried beans from turning into charcoal when you're cooking on a cheap coil stove that runs hot?

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