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Blue Peter
Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 2400 Location: Milton Keynes
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Behemoth
Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 19023 Location: Leeds
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 09 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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Large scale cooking will be more efficient but there are more steps to get it to your door:
Transport, store, cook, can, storage, transport, storage, distribute, store/sales, transport, home.
And I find them quite expensive but I'm a cheapskate. |
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Gra
Joined: 26 Sep 2009 Posts: 2
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Slim
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 6540 Location: New England (In the US of A)
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Slim
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 6540 Location: New England (In the US of A)
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 09 12:31 pm Post subject: Re: Collecting your own dried beans |
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Ian33568 wrote: |
I have just spent a lovely hour on the terrace splitting the pods of dried beans, first time this year and will probably only get around 5 kilos. Although very time consuming, it will be a good feeling next time we have a bean salad or paté made with our own beans.
Does anyone else? |
I used to split bean pods by hand, until I started doing enough beans that it became too frustrating and time consuming, and I decided I needed an easier way. After a quick look at how folks used to do it, I felt sheepish not thinking to thresh them earlier. Now I just throw all the dry pods into a bag, and either swing that bag into something hard repeatedly, or if it's really large, hang it from a tree and smack it with something like a broomstick. The pods split right open if thoroughly dried, and the beans fall to the bottom of the bag. You can pull out the empty pods from the top, or if you are doing a lot of beans you can use a burlap sack with a hole in the bottom that has been tied up, then you can just open the bottom and let the beans fall out, leaving you with a sack full of dried pods for the compost, etc...
It can be worthwhile to glance through the leftover pods as some beans cling tenaciously to their sleepingbags. |
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ksia
Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 2320 Location: Mayenne, France
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 09 12:51 pm Post subject: Re: Collecting your own dried beans |
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Slim wrote: |
I used to split bean pods by hand, until I started doing enough beans that it became too frustrating and time consuming, and I decided I needed an easier way. After a quick look at how folks used to do it, I felt sheepish not thinking to thresh them earlier. Now I just throw all the dry pods into a bag, and either swing that bag into something hard repeatedly, or if it's really large, hang it from a tree and smack it with something like a broomstick. The pods split right open if thoroughly dried, and the beans fall to the bottom of the bag. You can pull out the empty pods from the top, or if you are doing a lot of beans you can use a burlap sack with a hole in the bottom that has been tied up, then you can just open the bottom and let the beans fall out, leaving you with a sack full of dried pods for the compost, etc...
It can be worthwhile to glance through the leftover pods as some beans cling tenaciously to their sleepingbags. |
Interesting tip there. Ta Slim. |
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Went
Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 6968
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 09 1:37 pm Post subject: Re: Collecting your own dried beans |
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Slim wrote: |
Ian33568 wrote: |
I have just spent a lovely hour on the terrace splitting the pods of dried beans, first time this year and will probably only get around 5 kilos. Although very time consuming, it will be a good feeling next time we have a bean salad or paté made with our own beans.
Does anyone else? |
I used to split bean pods by hand, until I started doing enough beans that it became too frustrating and time consuming, and I decided I needed an easier way. After a quick look at how folks used to do it, I felt sheepish not thinking to thresh them earlier. Now I just throw all the dry pods into a bag, and either swing that bag into something hard repeatedly, or if it's really large, hang it from a tree and smack it with something like a broomstick. The pods split right open if thoroughly dried, and the beans fall to the bottom of the bag. You can pull out the empty pods from the top, or if you are doing a lot of beans you can use a burlap sack with a hole in the bottom that has been tied up, then you can just open the bottom and let the beans fall out, leaving you with a sack full of dried pods for the compost, etc...
It can be worthwhile to glance through the leftover pods as some beans cling tenaciously to their sleepingbags. |
Now you tell me I would imagine that is very therapeutic as well |
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Nanny
Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 4520 Location: carms in wales
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Gra
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wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 15051 Location: East Midlands
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Millymollymandy
Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 187 Location: Brittany, France
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Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 25795 Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
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loopy
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Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 25795 Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
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loopy
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