On 7/30/2015 7:45 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 03:43:46 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 8:15:26 PM UTC-4, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>> KenK wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I like the 15-bean soup mix and have been making it for years.
>>>
>>> Guess what the bean warehouses figured out to do about one a month
>>> with the beans that fall on the floor... they're swept up and become
>>> however many bean soup mix. Making 15 bean soup is like grinding 15
>>> different types of fish to make fish cakes.
>>
>> I often see bean soup mixes with the beans segregated by type. I
>> suppose that after they sweep them off the floor, they pay someone
>> to sort them again.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>
> Those that are separated by type are obviously not the ones sweapt off
> the floor.
>
(snippage)

Sheldon seems to be a bit paranoid. Most bags of dried beans and bean
soup mixes have directions which say to rinse them before cooking. If
you bother even with the quick soak method it requires a couple of
changes of water. I doubt those directions are on the bag because they
were swept off the floor. The beans will not be dirty.

Jill