[Stoves] Revisitng the pine needle issue

[ajheggie at gmail.com]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 13:29:22 -0400, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:

>Is it true that in Kenya there has been some shift to soaking beans (from
>lengthy boiling)? Who can tell us about that and how it was accomplished?

Also who can say what the temperature-time curve is to optimise
cooking. I'm assuming cooking beans is a hydrolysis process which
first needs to get water in intimate contact with all the material?

I did realise the cultural issues might be insurmountable but thanks
Paal for your views.