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Bush's Best Baked Beans Variety Pack, 8.3 oz, 6 Cans
$24.00
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These are Bush's Best baked beans in the 8.3 oz can, the single-serve size that runs about half the familiar 16.5 oz can. One tin is a generous portion for one person or two small sides, which means no half-used can going cloudy at the back of the refrigerator. Six cans come in the pack.
Pack composition varies between retailers and production runs. Some six-packs go out as Original and Country Style, others pair Homestyle with Vegetarian, so read the pack itself for the mix you have in hand. The recipes differ mainly in the sauce: Original is the sweet, smoky one most people picture, Country Style runs thicker and darker, and Vegetarian is leaner and more tomato-led.
The small can earns its keep in lunchboxes, camping boxes, dorm rooms and one-person kitchens, and at a cookout it lets you put two different beans on the table without committing to two large cans.
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Questions About This Product
The things people actually want to know before they cook with it.
Which varieties come in the six-can variety pack?
Bush's six-can 8.3 oz variety packs are most commonly built as three cans of Original and three cans of Country Style. Bush's has also assembled 8.3 oz variety packs in other combinations, including ones that add Homestyle or pair Homestyle with Vegetarian, so the outer sleeve is the authority on any given pack. All of the varieties used in these packs are slow-cooked navy beans in Bush's sweet-and-savory sauce, differing in how sweet, smoky or tangy that sauce is.
What is the difference between Original and Country Style?
Both start from tender navy beans in Bush's secret family sauce with brown sugar and bacon. Country Style is the sweeter, heavier one: Bush's describes it as a thick, rich sauce made with extra brown sugar and hickory-smoked bacon. Original is the more balanced everyday version, sweet and smoky but not as syrupy, and it is the one most people picture when they think of Bush's baked beans.
How is Homestyle different from the other two?
Homestyle uses the same navy beans and a sauce seasoned with bacon, brown sugar and Bush's spices, but it is deliberately tangier than Original or Country Style. That extra acidity makes it read less like a dessert-sweet bean and more like a slow-cooked pot of beans, which is why some people prefer it alongside rich barbecue. It is the least sweet of the three bacon-seasoned styles.
Are Bush's Original and Country Style baked beans vegetarian?
No. Both are seasoned with bacon, and Bush's lists bacon as part of what gives each of those sauces its flavor. Bush's sells a separate Vegetarian Baked Beans variety for this reason, described by the company as navy beans in a tangy sauce with brown sugar and their special spices and absolutely no bacon. If you need meat-free beans, buy that variety specifically rather than assuming a variety pack includes it.
How many people does an 8.3 oz can feed?
An 8.3 oz can is the small, single-household size, generally about two modest side-dish portions or one generous one. Six of these cans work out to roughly the same total volume as two of the standard 28 oz cans. For a cookout crowd most people reach for the large can instead; the appeal of the 8.3 oz format is portioning without leftovers.
Why buy six small cans instead of one large can?
The small cans solve the leftover problem. A 28 oz can opened for two people leaves most of the beans to be covered and used up quickly, while an 8.3 oz can is finished in one meal. The variety pack also lets you keep more than one flavor on the shelf and pick per meal, which a single large can obviously does not.
Where are Bush's baked beans made?
Bush Brothers and Company has been canning in Chestnut Hill, Tennessee, in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, since the company was founded in 1908. It is still a privately held, family-owned business, and the main cooking and canning operation remains anchored in East Tennessee. The company does not offer tours of the plant itself, though there is a visitor center and general store in Chestnut Hill.
What kind of beans are actually in the can?
Navy beans, sometimes called white pea beans. They are small, mild and creamy when cooked, and they hold their shape while soaking up a heavy sauce, which is exactly what a baked bean needs to do. Bush's uses navy beans across the Original, Country Style, Homestyle and Vegetarian varieties, so the bean is constant and the sauce is what changes.
Is the secret family recipe a real thing or just advertising?
Bush's has built decades of advertising around a secret family recipe that the talking dog Duke keeps trying to sell, and the joke works because the recipe really is proprietary. The company does not publish the sauce formula, and the published ingredient statement lists components without proportions or method. Plenty of copycat recipes exist online, but none of them come from the company.
What do people add to canned baked beans to make them taste homemade?
The standard cookout move is to empty the cans into a pot or slow cooker and build on the sauce with chopped onion, a spoon of yellow mustard, a splash of vinegar or Worcestershire, extra brown sugar or molasses, and crumbled cooked bacon. A longer, slower simmer thickens the sauce and deepens the flavor well past what a quick reheat gives you. The Country Style cans are already the sweetest, so taste before adding more sugar.
How do baked beans differ from pork and beans or Boston baked beans?
Pork and beans are typically navy beans in a thinner tomato sauce with a piece of pork fat, and they are much less sweet. Baked beans in the Bush's sense are cooked in a thicker brown sugar sauce, which is why they taste closer to a barbecue side than a plain canned bean. Boston baked beans are the molasses-heavy New England style, darker and less tomato-forward than either.
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