Saving seed

How best to save broad beans for seed, in the pod or out? In a dehydrator or just in a warm place.
The reason I ask as my husband (not a gardener) has made me doubt what I’ve done in the past. I think I normally pod & just leave them on a piece of paper I the conservatory .

Frogs that sounds a very good approach.
My only question would be whether you’d be better storing the dried seeds in a paper bag rather than plastic. I’m not suggesting that solely from an anti plastic perspective but more because I wonder if there is a risk of rot in plastic. Having said that if they are growing well you clearly haven’t had an issue. HH

There could be a theory that by drying them in the pods, they wreak out the last of whatever 'goodness' they've acquired during the season, so by taking them out before drying them, they 'might lose' that little extra.

I used to leave all sorts of beans in their pods until Mrs Growster decided that she wanted to pod the lot as they were getting in the way, and took up too much room...

Our 'problem' with growing them at home now, is that we really don't have enough room for more than 30 or so plants, (even The Sutton Dwarf), and what with some of them not coming up to scratch, we never have enough for seed next year as, like today, they're going in the saucepan!

Thanks everyone, I leave runners,borlotti,cannelini in the pods so wondered why I pod the broad beans normally lol.

Leave them on the plant until they go black, but before the pods burst and release the seeds.

Thanks, the plants weren’t mine but the pods were! Lol, so they’re already picked
And now drying on sheets of newspaper in airy trays in their pods in the conservatory.
Thanks for all the replies