pot on the fire – Orangette https://orangette.net Tue, 15 Dec 2015 23:59:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 While you’re not looking https://orangette.net/2015/10/while-youre-not-looking/ https://orangette.net/2015/10/while-youre-not-looking/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2015 15:59:00 +0000 I went through a period a few years ago when I couldn’t cook a pot of dried beans worth a damn. Every bean came out waterlogged and falling apart, like a rained-on newspaper, and on the rare occasion when every bean wasn’t waterlogged and falling apart, it was only because a few holdouts had a mouthfeel closer to gravel. I did everything I was supposed to do: I soaked them, brined them, cooked them without salt, cooked them with salt, cooked them at a simmer, cooked them so a bubble only rarely broke the surface. Every way, the window of time in which they were just right, tender but not yet reduced to mush, was narrow at best. Occasionally I hit it, but…

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