ohmygod. pressure cooker. beans. six minutes.

[Matariki]

my life is changed.

why didn't anyone tell me about this before?

edited due to too much excitement.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. what kind of beans? green beans?

any kind of bean?

:shrug:

[freshwest]

2. IDK, here's a fact page on it

http://fastcooking.ca/pressure_cookers/cooking_times_pressure_cooker.php

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. thanks for the link -- 2-3 minutes for green beans

:o

[Matariki]

4. Uncooked pinto beans.

six. freaking. minutes.

I've gone my whole life without knowing this, how?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. pintos?!

who knew !!

[Matariki]

5. my computer connection is misbehaving

sorry about the duplicates

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. no problem ...

mine gets the hic-cups sometimes, too ;)

[Matariki]

3. oops

[freshwest]

7. I was introduced to this as a kid by my dad, cooking pintos. It seemed to be a post WW2, 1950's fad.

As more people are getting away from processed foods, they're learning to can their own food, do drying, etc.. I have a ton of recipes on this kind of stuff.

I guess that's why you haven't heard about it, we've all been into convenience foods and microwaves. I think you'll like the taste and nutrition from your own cooking better.

How do they taste to you? Turned out the way you liked?

I usually do them in a crock pot, but have a pressure cooker. Hope you enjoyed it.

[Matariki]

10. They were delicious!

I have a crock pot too, but it takes too much planning for me and make the house smell like food all day.

I also just made a pot of lentil soup, from scratch, in about 5 minutes. How cool is that?

I was reading about the carcinogenic bpa in the lining of cans and wanted to stop buying canned beans, but didn't want to cook a small amount of beans for hours. I was looking for info on how to freeze cooked beans and came across info on pressure cookers. It's a freaking miracle of science! I had no idea ;-)

[freshwest]

11. Glad you found it. Yes, canned food has problems, not the least of which is the processing water.

Let me know if you want any recipes or I'll send you some websites. If you can get into it, though, drying your food at low temperature keeps its food value even better than frozen.

There are a lot of people really getting into this, you know, expecting the zombie horde to show up, hahaha. But it's better nutrition anyway. Glad you enjoyed it.

[Matariki]

12. Yes definitely, links for recipes.

I'd appreciate that very much.

I cook pretty simple usually and mostly from scratch. Just used canned beans in the past because of the cooking time.

[Matariki]

13. Do you have a food dehydrator?

I've looked at those when I had a lot of extra stuff from the garden.

[freshwest]

14. I don't but have looked into it. Excalibur seems to be the way to go. Here is a youtube channel that

Seems to have become a youtube partner but her videos are the same, since I last visited it. This woman is very detailed in her instructions. I've seen a lot of others but she's very efficient.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Dehydrate2store#p/u

For a quick view of what's involved to preserve food this way with confidence, watch this video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxVpIHre2ao

I have not been able to grow things myself or buy in bulk to make it worth my while to do this. But it sounds as if you can. If you are interested in using solar food dryers, I'll post links to those as well.

You can cook just about anything with solar, no matter the ambient air temperature. As Ralph Nader said,"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun." It's shockingly easy to make use of solar for many things, from heating water, cooking, preserving through drying and canning foods, water distillation, passive heating, etc.

I'll try to keep up with this thread. I've been considering growing at least some herbs with plant lights in my apartment, although it's really not cost efficient, and drying them in an Excalibur. They make small ones and large ones. There are also solar ones, and even some that can use low oven heat to do the job.

I'll try to read the thread to see if I can give you more information, or send me a PM with any more questions.