Have you ever found rocks in your beans?

Tambcat

I notice prep instructions for dried beans and peas always say to pick through your beans for small stones... I've never found a stone in my beans, but granted, I haven't cooked with dried beans all that much (I've decided to start trying to do it more).

belovedbride07

Yes!  I have only bought one bag of beans (we always ate canned before, and I froze what I cooked and it has lasted us months!) and there were several rocks in it.  I was surprised...I thought it would be a once-in-a-while occurrence.

pixieprincss

Nope and we've been doing dried beans for maybe 2 years now. Fun question! I'll be curious to see what others say.

LolitaC

Yup!  I haven't used dried beans since I've been an adult, but I remember sorting all the rocks out of them at grandmas when we were kids.

jebuell

Yup!  Well, my Dad has anyway.  I was almost the victim of it.  But he saw it as I was pouring and plucked it out.

meedy8

Yes, I occasionally find stones.  Not fun when they look like lentils & you accidentally cook/try to eat them.

fizzybauberswed

I've only found one tiny stone and I've been using dried beans for about a year.

sonicesosmart

Nope. I'm bad and pretty much never sort through them.

butterflygrooves

Yes, I find rocks in almost every bag.

CDMay2006

I've found two, ever.  I'd call that rare.

SuperGreen

Yes, but it's rare.  We cook with lentils a lot (I looove Dal, I could eat it every day), and have found a few stones in them.  I don't recall finding any in dried beans, but we may have.

JewelsEF

I decided to start skipping that step because I never found a stone.   Then my hubby bit down on a small stone in some lentils I made.  Luckily, he did not chip a tooth.  Needless to say, now I do pick through.

Jeff & Em

Ha, not until tonight!

I always skip the picking through process and just rinse them in a strainer.  But this time I rinsed them in a colander and bit down on a teeny tiny one that should have gone through the colander when I rinsed them.  I think I'll go back to the strainer!

I giggled when it happened though, because I'd seen this post earlier today.  : )

JaredsgirlErin

I look and have found a couple.

ksdk

Yes.

heliocentric

I've never found any, thankfully. I often skip this step, but now I'm worried.