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beans/blanched

How long to cook green beans

Two things decide it, and none of them is on the clock. Answer them and the time below is yours.

Your time 3:00

What kind of beans?

Sensei times the bean's thickness, not its length — cutting them shorter does not cook them faster.

How do you want them?

Crisp-tender is the one most recipes mean.

How to tell without a timer

Into the ice bath now.

Straight into ice water when the timer ends. Beans left in the hot pot keep cooking.

How it goes

  1. Into water at a rolling boil. Have the ice bath ready.
Every combination, as a table
What kind of beans?How do you want them?Time
Haricots verts (thin French) Still crisp 1:30
Haricots verts (thin French) Crisp-tender 2:10
Haricots verts (thin French) Fully tender 3:15
Standard green beans Still crisp 2:05
Standard green beans Crisp-tender 3:00
Standard green beans Fully tender 4:30
Flat romano beans Still crisp 2:45
Flat romano beans Crisp-tender 3:55
Flat romano beans Fully tender 6:00

The app does this, then learns

The timer above is the same arithmetic Kitchen Sense runs. The part a web page cannot do is the next bit: you say whether it came out right, and the next one is closer. Free, 68 dishes, no account.

Cooked the same way

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