[Sca-cooks] My problem cooking lentils

[Heleen Greenwald]

Thanks Niccolo.
I've already ditched the dried lentils, beans and flour that I have  
had way over a year.... Will start from scratch.
Phillipa
"My furs are not in storage, or draped across the bed,
they're hanging from the cage door, waiting to be fed."




On Oct 20, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Nick Sasso wrote:

>
> -----Original Message-----
> Thank you for all your good suggestions, folks. I'm thinking.... old
> lentils - I do have a tendency to keep storable food *too long*...
> But how old is too long? 6 months? a year?  I have a sinking feeling
> that I've had these lentils over a year. (If you can't remember when
> you bought them.....) > > > > > >
>
> Your storage time is really just one factor.  How long they've been  
> sitting
> in the warehouse and then the grocer's shelf will be probably a bigger
> impact.  3 months on your shelf is a small part of the life story  
> of that
> tiny protein disk.  A year is probably too long since dried beans and
> lentils and such are really rather inexpensive.  But, airtight,  
> cool storage
> of good product from a decent volume vendor could last a year or  
> more.  It's
> about time and temperature stress as always.
>
> niccolo difrancesco
>
>
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