/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9930647
i love being neet. i love the look of disgust/concern/confusion on the normalfaggots face when I proudly tell them i'm neet. They feel that you're beneath them, to compensate for the misery of wagecuckery.

>>7427487
I don't know about kidney beans, but with pinto and black beans, soaking them for 6-10 hours is great.

Decreases cooking time to 2.5 hours at most and the end product is perfect.

Growing up, my mom taught me the whole if you don't have time to soak beans, bring them to a roaring boil for roughly 45-60 minutes then cook as needed (slightly longer, at least 2.5 hours, not much more than 3 hours). The end product isn't as good though, there's some residual, gross crunch to them that will never go away.

Also, you can soak beans for too long. On more than one occasion I've gotten off work, put some beans to soak, got ridiculously drunk, stayed up way too late and slept way too long. Eventually they'll sort of sprout and give off a gross smell.

12 hours is the most I would soak beans.

On the other hand, you might not need a full soak to get the usual benefits. Just this past Saturday I got too drunk, forgot to soak beans before I passed out, woke up at 3pm on Sunday, immediately set them to soak, went on with my business until 7pm when I started cooking them. Took just over 2 hours a slightly more aggressive simmer than I usually use and they turned out perfectly.

Basically. Soak your beans for at least 3 hours.

Don't settle for canned. If you spice or cook your beans with meat, don't bother with canned. Canned beans are for mega-plebs or for super-last-minute situations. Spicing canned beans never works. Also canned refried beans are gross.