how long to cook beans

how long to cook beans

• lipsantos 15 years ago
  Does anyone have information about how long to cook dried beans? I know the time is different if the beans are soaked, or not and also if they are cooked in a pressure pan or a regular pot. Also, the time differs for various types of beans. Right now I'm cooking split peas. Can anyone help?
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• pointsevenout 15 years ago said:
  Did a lot of research before I cooked up my first recipe on beans. The general consensus in recipes seem to be 2 to 3 hours or 6 to 8 hours depending on the cooking style and as you have mentioned, the size of the bean and cooking utensil.
  I settled on a process for northern beans (white beans, navy beans) of a 30 minute boil time (parboil) to start the bean swell process and a soak for 8 hours. Water change after boil and every 2 hours of soak time to, as some have put it, throw out the fart water.
  It seems to have some legitimacy as I have eaten the lions share of a pot of 2 pounds dry beans cooked up and am not blowing off as much as I should be. Pardon the grammer.
  And then after the soak time I did a simmer in a crock pot on HIGH for 8 hours.
  That's a 16 hour process time. The beans came out firm but not crunchy and crushed well in the mouth when masticated.
  
  This is a very large and interdependent subject. I don't know beans about beans but my recipe turned out well. Hopefully others will have more insight on the subject.
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