Prep:

Put the slow-cooker on low, lid on.

Open the cans of beans. For each one, pour into the collander over a sink. Then run cold water over every millimeter of them. Shake them around to expose the parts that are touching each other. If you can flick it to bring the ones on the bottom to the top without spilling them all, do that. Keep rinsing until every bean has had every part rinsed *good*. Drain and pour the beans into the slow cooker and put the lid back on. Repeat for each type of bean.

Why? This is the beans-and-gas thing. The part of the bean that can give you gas is indigestible proteins that they contain. Your stomach can't break them down, so they go through and end up fermenting, basically, in your intestines, producing gas.

The trick is that these indigestible proteins are only on the *surface* of the bean. Not in the beans themselves. You rinse & shake & rinse & rinse the beans, and none of that indigestible protein ends up in the dish to start with, and you don't get gas.

Start heating the pot/pan over medium heat on the stove. Chop the onion, medium to fine. Add some cooking oil to the pot/pan. Throw in the garlic, minced. Add salt fairly liberally. Then fry and stir until the onions are starting to caramelize. Throw it all in the slow cooker.

3/x

#beans #gas #flatulence #protein #indigestible #IndigestibleProtein #ferment #stomach #intestine #garlic