Czar as butter beans

[peteredwards]

I grew and dried czar as butter beans. Stored the dried beans in paper bags. To use I soaked them overnight, and cooked in salted water. Most of them had a tough outer skin. Has anyone else had the same problem?

[charles]

Hello Peter, this may be from adding salt to the water, Steph says that is not good for cooking beans and toughens their skins.
Also I wonder if they were mature when you picked and dried them as they are so late this year? Since we had this conversation at my open day in early September.

[peteredwards]

Thank you for you reply and advice. I will try next time without salt in the water.

However, this was last year and the beans were fully mature and well dried before storing them.

As you said, it may have been the seed.

Thank you for the open day. Very helpful and informative. Congratulations on the amount for send a cow.

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