Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

When I first opened the nice burlap bag that these beans are packed in, I was very disappointed. I am a "Beaner." A eater of beans not the other kind of Beaner. After college I lived in a commune where most of the people were vegetarians. We cooked beans or legumes from the hard state in pressure cookers. I can cook beans like these in 55 minutes (without over night soaking!) I eat a lot of legumes and especially Garbanzo or Chick Peas which are about my favorite, just perfect right out of the kettle. Ok, back to the review; When I opened the bag I saw small, irregular, dried up looking, chick peas. What a bummer I had 15 pounds of them! My ever so tolerant and patient wife said; "look at all the good things about these beans as advertised on the amazon listing and the bag even has a link showing a GPS of the field that the beans were grown in!" Why would the grower go to all this trouble, let's give them a try." After a bit of research on Garbanzo Bean "types" we found that the kind of bean shipped looked just as it should and it was packaged just lest than a year ago. The next day, I measured 1 cup of dry beans to 3.5 cups of water in my pressure cooker for 55 minutes, no salt, no spices. These Chick Peas are very, very good, sweet, meaty and a nice hint of the mother earth..... YUM! I don't write many of these reviews (besides who cares) except when I am surprised.