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| Cooking Dried Beans. | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 10 2012, 08:35 AM (331 Views) | |
| Durgan | Apr 10 2012, 08:35 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.durgan.org/URL/?PJOYZ 9 April 2012 Cooking Dried Beans Beans are a large portion of my diet. A supply of beans is purchased from as bulk food store and all pressure cooked together.They are a low cost source of nutritional food. The beans are washed, boiled vigorously for ten minutes, rinsed, pressure cooked at 15 PSI for 90 minutes to insure they are well cooked. The beans are then mixed with the condiment of choice with sufficient water to cover, and boiled gently for a few minutes to mix. I only use molasses for a condiment.The finished product is stored in containers and the excess frozen. One container is kept in the refrigerator for current use.For long term storage at room temperature, they could be pressure canned, but I have no requirement for this procedure. |
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| Trotsky | Apr 27 2012, 01:31 AM Post #16 |
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I think it works this way. BEans have some indigestible (by humans) starches. They also contain enzymes to digest them. Presumably a long time in damp soil releases these enzymes and slowly allows the starches to break down and feed the plantlet. We speed up the process by applying heat and long soaks. Now IF the breakdown process was not completed, there will be indigestibles in the beans that just pass through our upper guts and get to the colon that is filled with all kinds of flora and fauna that CAN digest these starches...and they give off waste products like alcohols, carbon dioxide, methane (that's what burns when you light a fart), and a cornucopia of longer chained, appropriately named "aromatic" biggrin 04 hydrocarbons. So we want to digest these beans before the bugs do. The whole system is geared for the bean to prptect itself from being eaten by animals who have as much trouble with raw beans as we do...they are actually poisonous. Edited by Trotsky, Apr 27 2012, 11:00 AM.
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