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Julia Altshuler
 
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Default My green bean are too tough (horrors!)

Kenneth wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 16:02:18 GMT, The Wolf >
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>>Are we talking canned or fresh?

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I was wondering about canned or fresh as well. Is it possible that you
bought a bunch of tough beans at the grocery? My normal rule is to cook
them as you did, but instead of timing exactly 5 minutes, I take one out
and eat it, see if it is done, and then get the rest into that ice bath
as soon as it is. Every once in a while, I get tough beans. From the
gardening group I learned that the variety of bean you grow makes a big
difference.

--Lia