Janet Wilder > wrote:

>On 9/25/2012 9:20 AM, Steve Pope wrote:

>> I normally cook beans to tenderness without adding other
>> ingredients, except for a little salt close to the end.
>> And I almost always discard the bean liquid once they are cooked.
>> Charro beans may be one situation where you want to keep
>> some of it, but you certainly don't need to keep all the
>> bean liquid.
>
>We keep the liquid around here. Charro beans are served in a bowl with
>a spoon.

Thanks for the datapoint.

I do that in some bean dishes, but only 10% of the time or so.
I consider bean liquid to have not very much in the way of either
nutritional or culinary value.

Steve