To think ready trimmed beans should be trimmed at both ends?

[Gregorianchant]

Ok, I know it's a first world problem but, having paid extra because I didn't want to faff around trimming the green beans tonight, I find I have to anyway because Waitrose 'ready trimmed' beans are only trimmed at one end. What's the point of that?

Oh that's really brightened up my day and made me laugh! Sorry if it wasn't meant to!

Because only one end has the stalk on it? You can eat the other end.

Why do you trim the non-stalky end?

YANBU - sort of. You always need to trim both ends anyway as they tend to be dry. Buy yes trimmed should be both ends.

Yanbu! I did the same thing recently. Total con.

Yanbu!

Although i did see Jamie Oliver place them, still in the closed packet, on a chopping board and chopped the other end off with the knife and just tipped them out into. It was pretty nifty and what i do now.

I trim both ends and wonder why they don't come like that too

Tip - tip them to one side in the pack and cut (still in pack) much quicker and easier, if both ends need chopping you just tip them the other way and chop that side too :) especially useful for catching those fiddly little ones that hide behind the big ones when you try and get them lined up to chop!

They're French trimmed.

It's continental, innit!?

Does continental stand for we only do half the job??

Continental breakfast - couldn't be bothered offering a hot option
Continental green beans - couldn't be bothered cutting both ends but we did do one for you

It's trendy now to leave the non stalky end on, like leaving a bit of leaf stalk on baby carrots.

Were they Brazilian beans?

I still give them another bit of a trim anyway, as I don't like the dried up ends.

YANBU. I am going to try chopping the ends off while still in the package - genius!

Nooooo! You hold them all up on end like pickasticks, then lay them down and chop all the ugly, stalky/ dried ends off.

But you leave the other ends 'cos they're pretty

I was posting half in jest but I am pleased that I did as there are some brilliant tips here - especially the one of tipping the packet and using the scissors to get them in one fell swoop! Why didn't I think of that?

I hate buying trimmed and always buy the untrimmed kind. If I accidentally have trimmed I always re-trim them as I don't want to eat the manky bit that was cut several days ago and is now dried out. I was under the impression that trimmed beans are for the retailer's benefit because they can cut beans of any length down to a standard size for packing, whereas my nice untrimmed beans must require someone to make the effort to sort the beans by size and package up all those between 8 and 10 cm. I'm not aware of the price difference but I'd consider trimmed beans to be worth less not more.

Don't cut the bottom off! Cutting the bottom is a huge waste of resources. No one ever ate an untrimed bottom bean and thought "I wish someone had bothered to sniip this"