Runner Beans - Spotting stringy ones...

Hi,

Other than eating them  , what’s the best way to differentiate between a good runner bean and a stringy one?

Cheers.

I find that even young beans which have developed in hot conditions can be stringy - I slice my beans into 'diamonds' and when I slice towards the edge I pull rather than cut straight through so any string can be pulled out and discarded. Reverse bean and repeat for the other side (gets easier after years of practice!)

If you can see the outline of the seeds inside the pod, and the pod looks shiny rather than matt, it is almost certain to be too stringy to be palatable and beyond using the above technique.

A clean snap is good, bendy might also be perfectly good but perhaps not freshly picked enough to snap easily.

nice, where did you get your hunter seeds from ?