Beansprouts: The Most Pointless Food Ever?

[Barney Bee]

Try them in a peanut butter sandwich - they add a tasty, crispness to it. Yum!

 

[Pieface]

thanks!

 

[Orang Utan]

hmmm, my thread ain't going too well.


Hippies......

 

[wrysmile]

Fantastic addition to most SE Asian dishes - they create that extra something that can't be replicated. Pointless?? BAH!

 

[gentlegreen]

hmmm, my thread ain't going too well.


Hippies......

real hippies eat nothing but wheat grass and special broccoli sprouts

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[Pieface]

hmmm, my thread ain't going too well.


Hippies......

I was just thinking that! Your attempt to berate them now has us all wanting to sprout beans.

Arf!

 

[aqua]

nope I'm with OU on this one

they're fucking horrible

 

[Orang Utan]

Ray! Big kiss for aqua!

 

[geminisnake]

http://www.sproutpeople.com/

you can sprout almost anything

Ok, what is that temperature on there?? 70 with a wee circle means nothing to me

I have rinsed and put some mung beans in a jar with slightly warm water, is that right?

 

[Orang Utan]

70 degrees Fahrenheit, I would imagine - around 20 degrees Celsius - about room temperature

 

[aqua]

I have rinsed and put some mung beans in a jar with slightly warm water, is that right?

nope, you forgot to throw them in the bin

 

[gentlegreen]

Ok, what is that temperature on there?? 70 with a wee circle means nothing to me

I have rinsed and put some mung beans in a jar with slightly warm water, is that right?

70 degrees F sounds about right - room temperature

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[geminisnake]

nope, you forgot to throw them in the bin

I'm taking NO food advice from you, you drink GIN
Where's the gagging/puke smiley??

 

[EastEnder]

I'm taking NO food advice from you, you drink GIN

And she's an uncivilised northerner! I'm guessing she'd eat bean sprouts if they were deep fried in pig dripping or something....

 

[goldenecitrone]

I love their crunchiness. Everything else in my stir fries is usually pretty soggy, but you can always rely on beansprouts.

 

[mrsfran]

I've just had a thought. Pickled beansprouts. I bet they'd be nice.

 

[aqua]

And she's an uncivilised northerner! I'm guessing she'd eat bean sprouts if they were deep fried in pig dripping or something....

I am civilised and nothing would make bean sprouts taste nice *yuck*

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Bean sprouts go right through me. They're like corn on the cob. Very good for constipation

 

[northernhord]

Vegans swear by em, supposed to have a lot goodness in them, not my bag really too much pissing about for a handful of dull greenary.

 

[Major Tom]

I've been growing bean sprouts for years - they're very easy to do. The last lot I did in a glass bowl cos I didn;t have a jar.

The only real rule is to make sure they don;t dry out.

 

[gentlegreen]

I've been growing bean sprouts for years - they're very easy to do. The last lot I did in a glass bowl cos I didn;t have a jar.

The only real rule is to make sure they don;t dry out.

When I get around to it I will set up a pump to do it automatically.

I was originally going to run a 2 tier watercress farm on my kitchen windowsill but I found the pump was too noisy

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[trabuquera]

Beansprouts are not a total waste of space because they do at least add crunch (and some vitamins) to a dish of stirfried / singapore / thai noodles. other than that they're a bit of a bust.

iirc they were actually invented as a way of using up and consuming soya beans without having to cook them ... so they've always been more of a necessity than a delicacy.

however: beansprouts which are past-it - soft, or withered, or even worse slightly fermented - are FOUL. never let them ferment in their own liquid in your fridge - believe me you won't get the smell out for week and weeks.

ps: nobody I know is capable of cooking (much less eating) a whole supermarket pack of beansprouts in one sitting. Why don't the shops sell them in smaller packs?

 

[Rohen]

I liquidised the last packet of bean sprouts and drank it

it was yummy but I couldnt do it again