How to Check Beans for a Soup Recipe

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Dave for Expert Village. Today we are going to make white bean soup with hamhocks and cornbread. For beans if you are going to use dry one I like to use the great northern or the small white beans. The first thing I like to do is go ahead and open these up and pour them out we are going to be looking for little stones and things like that and there might be little impurities you cook it in there and you take a bit you might break a tooth or something. Just go ahead and open up the bag (you might drop a few) just go ahead and pour them out on the plate and sometimes you won't have any in here but I have run across and it's always good idea to go through them. Those look okay, so basically you just want to pick through and look to see if you see any thing foreign like little rocks or anything like that. It looks like we are in pretty good shape here. "