Turning White Beans Blue...

[kmac1914]

Okay....I need to turn some kidney beans blue (about half a bag) for a project I'm doing, and I have been trying to figure out the best way to go about doing this. At first i was going to put them in some blue food coloring, but that'll probably make them expand. Now, I'm thinking spraypaint, but I was wondering if there's a more efficient way to do this?

 

[Demon-Xanth]

*insert required joke involving "blue balls"*

...or you could try just dipping them in food coloring, and not keeping them down. A jar of fountain pen ink and paint them with a brush would do the trick quickly and cheaply.

 

[palad]

I'd like to know where you got white kidney beans. The only ones I've ever seen are dark red.

And you're right, if you were to try a solution of food coloring, the beans would expand. Perhaps regular paint? Just drop some beans in a jar, drop in some paint, cover, and shake vigorously. <shrug> It might work, but the beans would have to dry. Maybe drop a bag of beans into a gallon of paint and have your friendly neighborhood hardware store run it in their paint-mixing machine for a few minutes.

 

[FuzzyBee]

easy.

shellac them, then paint them.

one by one.

😀

how about just dipping them in paint?

 

[FuzzyBee]

Originally posted by: palad...and have your friendly neighborhood hardware store run it in their paint-mixing machine for a few minutes.

"excuse me, could you do me a favor and shake my blue beans for me?"

😀

 

[kmac1914]

Originally posted by: palad
I'd like to know where you got white kidney beans. The only ones I've ever seen are dark red.

And you're right, if you were to try a solution of food coloring, the beans would expand. Perhaps regular paint? Just drop some beans in a jar, drop in some paint, cover, and shake vigorously. <shrug> It might work, but the beans would have to dry. Maybe drop a bag of beans into a gallon of paint and have your friendly neighborhood hardware store run it in their paint-mixing machine for a few minutes.

I'm pretty sure i saw them in a store around here, but if not I'll just use whatever white beans they have. How long do you think it would take them to dry?

 

[Analog]

spray paint.

 

[kmac1914]

yea, thats what i ended up going with. It's turning out.....well, it's turning out....