What’s on the Pulses & Beans poster
A 7-row table: Pulse · Soak · Cook.
Dried, after soaking overnight unless stated.
- Red lentils — No — 15–20 min
- Green / brown lentils — No — 25–35 min
- Chickpeas — Yes — 1–2 hours
- Kidney beans — Yes — 10 min hard boil, then 45–60
- Black beans — Yes — 1–1.5 hours
- Split peas — No — 45–60 min
- Butter beans — Yes — 1–1.5 hours
Salt and acid slow softening. Add tomatoes, vinegar and most of the salt after the beans are already tender.
Questions about the Pulses & Beans poster
- What’s on the Pulses & Beans poster?
- A 7-row table: Pulse · Soak · Cook. Dried, after soaking overnight unless stated. Red lentils — No — 15–20 min; Green / brown lentils — No — 25–35 min; Chickpeas — Yes — 1–2 hours; Kidney beans — Yes — 10 min hard boil, then 45–60; Black beans — Yes — 1–1.5 hours; Split peas — No — 45–60 min; Butter beans — Yes — 1–1.5 hours. Salt and acid slow softening. Add tomatoes, vinegar and most of the salt after the beans are already tender.
- Who is the Pulses & Beans poster for?
- Pulses & Beans belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning ingredients can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Pulses & Beans poster?
- Red kidney beans must be boiled hard for 10 minutes. Undercooked, they are toxic. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Pulses & Beans belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Pulses & Beans?
- Storing Bread, Cheese and Chillies sit alongside Pulses & Beans in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Storing BreadCheeseChillies
- Is the Pulses & Beans poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Pulses & Beans downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Pulses & Beans poster print at?
- Pulses & Beans is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Pulses & Beans loses nothing.Printing guide
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