How about * Burst your bubble** ?
I rec’d 4 different types of spicy mustard recently and someone remarked, "what’s wrong with yellow mustard?
Yep. It’s all a matter of perspective.
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Everyone so cute with their sayings. I don’t know that we have any type of local thing here with beans. The regular dried bags at the grocery for a buck or two per lb. We do have a nice coop with tons of bulk bins, beans included, a fair number of varieties. But I don’t know their progeny. I do know that if you buy 10 lbs of beans at the very beginning of the pandemic and hope to avoid shopping for the next 3 months (you can’t), and take a long time to cook those beans, eventually they become hard as F, and won’t get soft even with a 6 hr boil!!
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For me it’s not about the progeny, it’s about turnover and “fresh” dried beans. Does your coop still have bulk bins you scoop from? That’s what I liked about the place Winco I mentioned, but now the bulk stuff is in bags, and I’m less confident about the rapid turnover.
And now it’s also about keeping food folks in buisness.
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I really like RG. They do (or have in the past) had sampler boxes with 6 different types of beans in small packages. It’s a nice way to try different types.
I will say, if you don’t eat a lot of beans and/or cook dried beans regularly … I’m not sure you’ll eat them and say “wow, I need to eat beans every week now”. But if you eat/cook beans regularly I think there is a noticeable difference. YMMV.
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That sounds like a great idea. I’ll keep my eye out. I use a fair amount of dried beans, but also canned.
I find RG beans well worth every extra penny! I think the freshness of their dried beans is a big factor. They always cook up creamy an un-burst.
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Just to be clear, samplers are sets of full sized bags, often sold out.
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In stock here
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Thank you. I went on their website and couldn’t even find the samplers. I also found it interesting that right now, they have about 8 varieties available and at least 20 sold out.
Pandemic bean buying.
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RG has over 10k customers in their bean club and an enviable waitlist. Which is why we started ordering from MyPanier.
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Wow! Didn’t realize they got so wiped out. I did an order in September for pintos and black beans. Glad I stocked up as the pintos are gone now. Maybe fall is the time to stock up from RG.
My wife joined the newsletter in order to read bean arrival announcements.
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In the SF Bay Area I’ve found Rancho Gordo beans at my local Mollie Stone’s, and they are available in other local markets like Bi-Rite. They have a retail locator on their website:
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I recommend the cranberry beans. Local is sooo much easier!
@Rooster, you might enjoy this New Yorker story about Rancho Gordo beans and its founder Steve Sando.
Fun fact: Back in the 90’s, Steve Sando used to produce a music zine called Mr. Lucky that we subscribed to probably for as long as it lasted. We were big fans of his curation and taste then. If he could do that with music, I’m excited to see what he brings to the table with Rancho Gordo beans.
I scored a couple of varieties locally from Formaggio Kitchen (Cambridge, MA). Not a go-to source, but I found it convenient to include the beans in an order for a few pantry staples I can’t buy at my regular grocery store.
Oh yes! I’m aware of Steve’s multiple back stories! The guy has been a self starter his whole life and that built in following, led in no small part to the amassed bean audience today. Making beans cool is no small accomplishment. Thxs for the link!
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Ah, I guessed that you might know already. On the chance that you didn’t have the backstory, I wanted to share that New Yorker piece. Because music. 
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Thanks! The NYorker site is down but I have read that article and others. He’s a remarkable character. Great online cooking teacher too.
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