Bean Frenchers, Green Bean Slicers - Photos, Features and Prices for Home Canning Supplies -

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Bean Frenchers and Green Bean Slicers 

These devices have been around for decades; your great grandmother may have used one very similar to this to speed preparation of green and yellow beans for canning.

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Here's an inexpensive design from Golda's Kitchen. It is the Norpro French bean slicer. This one is ok for making enough sliced beans for a meal, but would be pretty tedious if you were canning or freezing and substantial quantities .

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one comes from Gurney's Seed, and is very similar; but in a white finish.


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And here is one more, that is very similar to the first, just through a digfferent vendor!

 

 

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