Oh FGS - how do you drain your cooked lentils enough........

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so that your burgers/loaf/whatever does stay like mush??

I made burgers a few months back ad they were practically falling apart as the cooked lentils were still too "wet"

Making loaf now - and I already know it's going to come out like mush instead of a nice firm loaf. I left the (cooked) lentils to drain for AGES - but they're still too sodding wet.

"don't" stay like mush that should read

How odd. What kind are you using? They tend to firm up as they cool too.

using red split lentils (think these are Morrisons ones?).

It's turned out like stodge - spent all bloody afternoon in the kitchen as well with it

tasty stodge is should be said - but stodge none the less.

Drain them on kitchen roll!

left them draining in a sieve for just over an hour - they were still really stodgy.

Maybe I'm overcooking them??

Fry with some onion and garlic-will bind it, but if not, add some flour.

use green or puy lentils Red ones go like sludge.

yes sludge is a very apt word - that's just what they looked like while draining - and what the "loaf" looked like once served up.