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Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: banf77 on August 06, 2018, 17:38

Title: Tough runner beans OK for chutney?
Post by: banf77 on August 06, 2018, 17:38

Hi
Quite a lot of my runner beans have ended up preety tough and stringey.
Are these OK still to make chutney with?
Thanks
Steve

Title: Re: Tough runner beans OK for chutney?
Post by: greenjay on August 06, 2018, 21:04

i wouldn't.
 stringy beans stringy chutney

Title: Re: Tough runner beans OK for chutney?
Post by: banf77 on August 06, 2018, 21:23

Fair enough, better not then.
Thanks Greenjay

Title: Re: Tough runner beans OK for chutney?
Post by: sunshineband on August 07, 2018, 13:57

Quote from: banf77 on August 06, 2018, 21:23

Fair enough, better not then.
Thanks Greenjay

They are best in the compost tbh

Title: Re: Tough runner beans OK for chutney?
Post by: greenjay on August 07, 2018, 20:42

when I prepare runners anything that has bulked up I just take the beans and throw the green.
but to be honest if they are plentiful  compost them.
keep picking or the plant slows production.