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Is there an easy way? Can you thresh them once dried ? If I have to hand shell my beans I will be on forever!

Just do some of them at a time and play a little game like guessing how many beans will be in the pod or what colour they'll be! That's what I do (when I have beans). Its like opening a present every time.

I do mine sitting on the shed step in the sunshine, conning myself I'm doing something productive rather than just soaking up the sunshine. I find it rather therapeutic, like sorting buttons or lego pieces used to be.

I find it depends on the variety how easy they are to shell. Soissons climbing and the dwarf variety I grow specifically for dried beans are easy. While the french bean I grow for eating fresh are far harder to shell though possibly I could wait till the shells were bone dry and then crush the pods.
If you have something you like to listen to/watch it doesn't really matter how long it takes.

I have had a glut of broad beans so after eating a few, and having no room in freezer.I am drying some on the windowsill on kitchen roll. I personally like broad beans fresh and I eat the whole bean. Others in the family prefer to take outer 'husk' off the beans (Helen liked them that way as well) It's such a chew on to do and I prefer them as they come out the pod.
Following on from this, when they are fully dried and wrinkled I presume I just soak them overnight before cooking? If this is the case will they still have a husk once cooked?

Have you tried drying them at a low temperature in your Air Fryer Vinny ?

(26-07-2023, 09:35 PM)Can the Man Wrote: [ -> ]Have you tried drying them at a low temperature in your Air Fryer Vinny ?

Give him chance, Can, its not being delivered until tomorrow.

I didn't realise you could use an Air Fryer as an Air Dryer?

I only grow broad beans to dry and then use for hummus instead of chickpeas. They generally take a couple of days to fully rehydrate and then I slice them lengthwise to remove the husk. They take about 10minuted to cook. One problem with them is the holes made in several of them by a weevil. I cut these out as I slice them.

Or are you drying young beans, rather than mature which dry on the plant?