Let me think… Heinz Beans are roughly half beans and half tomato sauce. You only need to thicken the tomato sauce, so you’ll need half the amount of gelatin that you would need to stabilize water or juice. They come in leaves here, six to stabilize 500ml liquid. A tin of beans is 415g, so it is about 210ml sauce, thus it would require 2-3 leaves of gelatin, or 7-10g of gelatin powder. I’d go to 3 leaves or 10g, just to get a nice stable product, as one has also consider to counteract the (hidden) acidity of the sauce, too.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If it is home-made and solves the users problem, fine with that.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
If a solution for the bean-to-glue ratio can be found, I am also fine with that.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Let me think… Heinz Beans are roughly half beans and half tomato sauce. You only need to thicken the tomato sauce, so you’ll need half the amount of gelatin that you would need to stabilize water or juice. They come in leaves here, six to stabilize 500ml liquid. A tin of beans is 415g, so it is about 210ml sauce, thus it would require 2-3 leaves of gelatin, or 7-10g of gelatin powder. I’d go to 3 leaves or 10g, just to get a nice stable product, as one has also consider to counteract the (hidden) acidity of the sauce, too.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Polyvinyl acetate would probably give a better texture and has been kid approved for decades.
Still, I am super curious to see if actual gelatin would work so thanks for computing the ratios for a (theoretically) stable product.