Are YOU eating beans on toast wrong? As divided Brits reveal different ways to consume nation’s favourite

•  People across the country are divided over the best beans on toast recipe
•  Heinz published a step-by-step guide on the correct way to make the dish 
• Almost half of Brits – 43 per cent – eat baked beans at least once a week

Britons were divided today over the best way to make beans on toast after Heinz published a step-by-step guide on how to produce the classic dish.

The instructions include steps that appeared unusual to many, such as having to store the tin upside down, shake it for five seconds before opening, and warming for a specific 64C.

It has since sparked a fierce debate on social media, with people clashing over the perfect way to serve one of the nation’s favourite meals.

Issues Brits found with the recipe ranged from  the placing of the beans on top of the bread, to the exclusion of certain ingredients and general dissatisfaction towards the meal in general.

One user posted his own guide in response, which read: ‘1. Toast two slices of white farmhouse bread. 2. Store can upside down and shake before opening. 3. Warm Beanz on the hob – NEVER BOIL. 4. Add Lea & Perrins or Tobasco for heat. 4. Butter toast. 5. Pour Beanz on top. 6. Add mature cheddar. (Not optional)’

A number of people hit back at Heinz and sent in their own beans on toast recipe 

People across the country have been divided over what is the best way to make baked beans on toast

Brits found a number of issues with the five-point recipe, including the placing of the beans on top of the bread

Some online users felt more ingredients should be added to the dish to make it tasty 

Another said: ‘Need to add some onions, black pepper, tiny bit of medium curry powder and all purpose and a splash of soy sauce, then you’ve got some hand changing beanz.’ 

READ MORE: Heinz launches three new baked bean flavours to appeal to spice fans 

Others were less complimentary, writing: ‘1. Toast the bread (duh) 2. Butter aggressively. 3. Open can of beans 4. Throw the beans in the bin 5. Enjoy any number of actual good topping on the toast.’

There was also criticism towards the quality of Heinz Baked Beanz, with many preferring to use cheaper supermarket-brand options or Branston’s version of the tinned goods.

Steven Trafford [@steventrafford] replied with a photo of Branston’s Baked Beans, saying: ‘These are THE beans !! The Heinz sauce is like water.’ 

Baked beans in tomato sauce served on slices of toast, has become one of the nation’s favourite meals, prepared in minutes and devoured at any time of the day.

In fact, almost half of Brits – 43 per cent – eat baked beans at least once a week and beans on toast has been a staple in the diet of generations of students.

But Heinz says that many Brits have been bungling how they store, cook and serve up their beans.

There was also criticism towards the quality of Heinz Baked Beanz, with many preferring to use cheaper supermarket-brand options or Branston’s version of the tinned goods

Others were not so complimentary, suggesting there were better toppings for a slice of bread 

Heinz says that many Brits have been bungling how they store, cook and serve up their beans

Almost half of Brits – 43 per cent – eat baked beans at least once a week and beans on toast has been a staple in the diet of generations of students

Fan of the classic dish have been left shocked after Heinz revealed the recipe for making the perfect beans on toast 

Two slices of white farmhouse loaf bread should be toasted at the start of the process

The beans should be warmed on the hob in a stainless steel pan, which Heinz says helps to preserve their ‘iconic taste’

This should be done for three to four minutes while stirring constantly

The brand has enlisted etiquette expert William Hanson to explain how to eat beans on toast in a ‘quintessentially British manner’.

Diners should store their Heinz can upside down at around 18c and shake it for five seconds before opening to ensure an ‘even beans to sauce distribution’.

The beans should be warmed on the hob in a stainless steel pan, which Heinz says helps to preserve their ‘iconic taste’, for three to four minutes while stirring constantly.

It warns: ‘Never boil your Heinz beans. This can cause the sauce to split, potentially ruining the colour and flavour.’

Two slices of white farmhouse loaf bread should be toasted, placed on a plate and have unsalted butter spread evenly up to the crust.

The beans – heated to 64c for the ideal instant eating temperature – are then poured over the toast.

Mr Hanson advises: ‘Don’t drown your toast with beans. This is not your local lido.

‘A good butter, unsalted of course because we’re not heathens, will ensure it keeps its crisp crunch.’

Once toasted, the bread should be placed on a plate and have unsalted butter spread evenly up to the crust

Almost half of Brits – 43 per cent – eat baked beans at least once a week and beans on toast has been a staple in the diet of generations of students

Stressing the importance of following the official recipe to the letter, Mr Hanson says: ‘The only way to eat your beans is in a quintessentially British manner.

‘Consulting Heinz, the expert voice on baked beans, on proper etiquette will ensure British households can eat this simple yet heritage dish in the way it was supposed to be enjoyed. Your dinner guests will thank me.

‘Of course, when it comes to beans it has to be Heinz.’

The recipe released on social media soon blew the mind of many beans on toast fans with the choice of butter, in particular, causing controversy among the hundreds of comments.

Heinz declared online: ‘There are two types of people in the world – those who add butter to their beans on toast and those who don’t.’

Dawnie Claypole responded ‘Oh, I’m a heathen. I love salted butter’, while another viewer branded unsalted butter ‘a crime’.

Similarly Maria Brown said: ‘Unsalted butter literally tastes of nothing. Salted all the way.’

‘Leysha’ wrote: ‘Ur telling me there’s a beans on toast etiquette…’

Heinz says that the final optional step in its recipe is grating cheese on the hot beans and letting it melt for two minutes.

But one social media wag wanted further advice, asking: ‘Yes, but how do you eat it? I have friends that eat with their hand and others with fork and knife.’

And others enquired about ‘post-beans-on-toast farting etiquette’.

A Heinz spokesman said: ‘Beans on toast are a cornerstone of British cuisine but people still get it wrong or are unsure how to make it.

‘Heinz has put together the optimum way to prepare the classic, putting processes to the test so people can enjoy the classic at home.

‘Our simple instructions will guarantee tasty results.’

Despite its reputation as a cheap meal for strapped students, Heinz Baked Beans were first sold at the the late Queen’s grocer, also known as London’s Fortnum and Mason in the late 19th century. 

It has been so enormously popular with Brits that, to mark their 150th anniversary, Heinz opened a pop-up Beans Museum with an immersive exhibit to celebrate in 2019. 

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