This is the 2nd time this has happened. They were fresh from the garden of my neighbor. We've been having lots of orange smoke here in Nor Cal because of the fires so I wonder if that could be the problem. I boiled corn from another source but the water wasn't red and both times I steamed the beans was in two different steamers. I know the grape growers here are worried about the smoke's effect on the grapes because in another month harvest will kick in. I'm not so sure I want to drink local wine from 2008.
17. I lived on a farm, with a well, and the water 'looked' clear
Edited on Fri Jul-25-08 06:09 PM by Breeze54
until you took a shower!! My bathtub was always rusty looking and we had to get Culligan services to 'soften' the H2O. Besides that, it smelled like sulpher and I was pregnant and it made me sick to even brush my teeth. :puke:
15. Right...I meant the corn husks would have prevented any stuff from getting on the cobs
while they were on the stalk and then would be thrown away when you stripped them off. But then beans don't have that sort of covering so it has to be a chemical reaction of some kind...probably as others have suggested the precipitation of iron oxide. Strange.
16. I've steamed loads of beans in the past without this reaction.
That orange dust is everywhere, in the house, on the clothes I hang out to dry. I feel bad for the birds. It's worse than then Los Angeles where I lived for a very long time. We've had about 4 weeks of this.
8. The fire fighting planes have dropped literally tons of
fire retardants on the fire ravaged areas. Various wind patterns have carried this stuff all over the Bay Area. I've had a nagging cough and headaches since the fires started and I know that I am very senstive to the fire retardant chemicals (from commerical mattresses and box springs).
so the red/pink stuff combined with the smoke and ash, well I guess that's why we've had the warnings to stay inside because of the air quality.
Oh yeah, they were also spraying for the brown moth. So we're getting it from all sides. :-(
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