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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
I looked at the preview and there were lots of recipes with dried beans, but not all had the "boil briskly for 10 minutes".
So not safe.
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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
I thought it was only red kidney beans that need to be boiled 10 minutes.
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I wasn't aware of the issue. What is the problem with not boiling beans of some kind(s) 10 minutes? Is it a health/safety issue?
If someone can
confirm Little.Egret's information, please do so. I'll delete the post right away if there is a health/safety issue. If it's just a matter of affecting quality--e.g., taste--I won't. I'll just let your posts serve as an advisory.
This kind of thing is one reason that I have a rule not to post a book with less than 20 ratings. But it seems that I'm finding myself breaking the rule more often than I used to. Twenty actually may be too low of a number.
Perhaps I based the fact of my posting the book too much upon the reputation of the author and the "Fix-It-And-Forget-It" series. The
old edition had adequate ratings at GoodReads (there were none at Amazon for the old edition). There were practically none for the
new edition, anywhere, however.
But what kind of changes did the new edition make over the old one? One may have been in instructions about how long to boil the beans! Who knows? It wouldn't be impossible, perhaps, to compare the two editions, but it would be impractical, especially if you couldn't find a copy on the Internet to look at.
Sometimes I check the ratings details, but I don't remember if I did it for this book or not. Even if there are high average ratings, sometimes there is an excessive number of "1's" and "2's," and they reveal one or more problems. But, again, that would have been for the old edition, not the new one.