"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> 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

Aren't fresh beans a seasonal thing? And wouldn't dried beans transport more
easily?