On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 22:07:59 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> The Science channel has a series called Super Factories. The particular
> episode I'm watching has a segment on the Heinz factory in the UK. They
> do canned beans there. They make 4500 cans per minute, about 4 million
> cans a day.

Surely Heinz has bean-counters. How many beans is that?

I guess we can call UK "Beaners" now.

> 1200 tons of dried beans are shipped in every week.

Why don't they use fresh beans? It looks like beans are mostly dried
in the field while still on the stalks, and then harvested from
that. You'd get quicker turnaround on your land rotating in
something else in the meantime.

There's seems to be a lot of time and energy in pre-drying, then
rehydrating beans at the processing plants.

I'm sure there's culinary and economical reasons for not doing this,
I'm just curious what it is. Green peas, for example, don't go
through the same grown-dry-rehydrate process. I'd be curious what a
fresh pinto tastes like when cooked to the same state as previously
dried.

OTOH, if fresh peanuts vs. dried and roasted are any example of
culinary benefit of drying first, I'll take the dried ones 101% of
the time. Fresh peanuts are ass.

> If you are looking for it on cable, it is episode 3 and will repeat or
> be available on demand. The title is NASA Rocket Factory.

Since my cable was cut (literally, 2 feet short so I couldn't hook
myself up illegally again) I found it as a torrent at:

https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=36334436

Downloading now....

-sw