Fresh air can be pretty bad for your coffee beans. Good beans come vacuum-packed to keep them from oxidizing and becoming bitter. But once you've opened that bag, you've pretty much doomed whatever ...

"If one is following a low, no sodium, or no iodine diet it would be best to use dried beans, soaking them overnight in water ...

Beans can be frozen, canned or even pickled. Yellow or wax beans are preserved the same as green beans. Both are called snap beans. The quality of frozen beans is better if they are blanched.

Cooks don’t agree on how long to cook green beans. Some like them braised until limp and grayish, others like them crisp and grassy green. Many take the middle road, blanching or steaming them until ...