On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:02:59 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>On Tue 01 Jul 2008 02:46:58p, Lou Decruss told us...

>> Very interesting. Thanks to you both.
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>> Lou
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>You're welcome, Lou. Having said what I did previously, I also should say
>that a moist cooking environment for cooking pinto beans is probably much
>more desirable. My aunt frequently cooked pintos with a ham hock, although
>in a covered pot on top of the stove, as that pre-dated slow cookers.

Gotcha....Whenever I smoke anything pork, the bone goes right in the
slow cooker with the pint beans. I decide what to do with it the next
day. But the bone never gets wasted.

Lou