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  • noun A pot for cooking or serving beans.

Etymologies

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bean +‎ pot

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Examples

  • I didn't see anything like that though, so I wound up ordering a handthrown "yankee style" beanpot from the dancing moon pottery, and then waiting a month for it.

    Beans and the Pot Lindy 2006

  • Thanks Julie-You are definitely lucky to be given an already broken-in beanpot.

    Beans and the Pot Lindy 2006

  • John Thorne and food historian Karen Hesser opine that a solid brown is the true old style-but the bicolored ones say "beanpot" to me.)

    Beans and the Pot Lindy 2006

  • "Can't lose no time with all that multitude a-rushin 'by," Kink spluttered, as he jabbed the sour-dough can into the beanpot with one hand and with the other gathered in the frying-pan and coffee - pot.

    Too Much Gold 2010

  • "Can't lose no time with all that multitude a-rushin 'by," Kink spluttered, as he jabbed the sour-dough can into the beanpot with one hand and with the other gathered in the frying-pan and coffee - pot.

    TOO MUCH GOLD 2010

  • While I wait for the replacement card, and nurse a New Year's headache not caused by any reveling, purely random, I decided to try making something soothing in my nice old beanpot.

    Soup of the Evening Lindy 2009

  • Likewise, I figure that anything a person might eat with beans won't ruin the beanpot either.

    Soup of the Evening Lindy 2009

  • They theorize I'm not making this up, but I can't cite a sourse- maybe John Thorne? that the pot makes better beans the longer it has been in use as a beanpot, rather like those special Chinese clay teapots which you are supposed to use with only one kind of tea, because they absorb the flavors of the fine teas, and send 'em right back atcha.

    Soup of the Evening Lindy 2009

  • So, for supper, this is what I made, in my 2 qt beanpot:

    Soup of the Evening Lindy 2009

  • Some baked bean purists believe that it is detrimental to the development of an heirloom beanpot to cook anything else in it.

    Soup of the Evening Lindy 2009

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