The Once and Future Beans

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This recipe was a big hit with my friends and family. Thanks, Alton!

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These beans are amazing! I can eat just the beans for a meal. Everyone I've cooked them for loves them, and I've cooked them many times! Thanks Alton!!

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Excellent and I do not like baked beans until NOW! My husband and I love spice, we like it HOT however next time I would seed the jalapenos or leave them out. But, I think it also could have been the fact that I made Tyler's pulled pork with the jalapeno coleslaw and Carolina BBQ sauce which left everything spicy, but delicious. The only thing I did different on the beans was use chicken broth instead of vegetable broth which for some reason I do not like and I love veggies. Oh, and I added an extra cup of broth 4 hours into cooking glad I checked before leaving the house because it needed it. Mine cooked for 7 1/2 hours and they were perfect! Happy cooking to all!

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These are sooo good and really easy. Completely worth the time, and not much effort. The nice part is that this recipe makes a lot, so you can eat them for a day or two afterward. Probably costs 5 dollars for the whole pot of beans, too.

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An excellent bean recipe! I get rave reviews when I make it. I sometimes will use diced chilies instead of the jalapeno cuz I don't have jalapenos on hand! Try this recipe and you'll be sold. Thanks Alton!

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This is the best baked bean recipe ever. I use chicken broth instead of vegetable broth and I bake them in a ceramic crock pot but other than that I would say follow the recipe. It rocks!

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Just learned that After soaking Navy Beans overnight,take a "pinch" of Baking Soda and put in the water with the Navy Beans first,It "helps" to tenderise the outter layer of the N.Beans&make them creamier.{a pinch is literally between the fore finger&thumb}.I also like these in a 9"x13" baked w/Bacon Strips "crossed" like my Mother did Always.Best of Alton Brown...

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This is hands down one of, if not the best dishes I've ever tasted. Alton, you rocked my world with these beans! Slow-cooked with bacon, onion, peppers and broth mixture infused so much tender yet great texture and flavor. I even had to substitute dry lima beans! No matter -- they blew my mind! Thanks again, you are the king of chefs Alton

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Awesome taste! I have to check on texture. Reading from the GE V1 cookbook, it didn't mention soaking the beans, or using the soak water. I figured the low and slow was a way to skip the soak... I guess not. They were still a bit raw. I made pencil notes in the cookbook to soak next time. I should have pulled up the episode since I think he soaked them on the show. Now I want to make again since a friend of ours gave us 12 POUNDS of Great Northern beans!!!

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Inspired by the recipe I found 1 1/4 pounds of navy beans in the pantry. I cut the bacon (thick cut, double smoked, pepper crusted back to 3/4 lb but added 1 1/4 lbs of riblets (appears to be the first two ribs cut off a side rack, yield about 3/4 lb meat. The jalapenos and cayenne were replaced by 2 teaspoons of sambal oelek, doubled the onion, adjusted the remaining ingredients by 1.25, and I added 2 Tb of mustard and 1 Tb of cider vinegar.
Since we're in the middle of a heat wave I used the barbeque. The side burner is easily hot enough for the first steps and 1 burner on low keeps it at 250 all night.
I'll make this again though I'll likely double the batch so I can have some for the freezer.