Why You Should Absolutely Never Cook Raw Beans In A Slow Cooker

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  • @MashedFood
    @MashedFood  Рік тому +6

    What tips do you have for cooking up some beans?

  • @dmoney7184
    @dmoney7184 11 місяців тому +35

    They say to boil kidney beans and cannellini beans only.. but, my friend has been making beans in a crock pot for over 30 years and he is still with us.

  • @johncrumpley8702
    @johncrumpley8702 Рік тому +32

    I have an old Crock Pot that has a "High" setting. I've cooked beans in it for over three decades. I do soak them for about an hour before adding them to the pot.

  • @evinrude1236
    @evinrude1236 Рік тому +63

    I've cooked beans in my slow cooker for years. But I learned to start them on high for about 2-3 hrs......then turn to low til done. It works great.....and we have no digestive issues. 👍

  • @jazzyred8759
    @jazzyred8759 Рік тому +20

    I’ve been cooking dried beans in my slow cooker/crockpot for at least 20 years. Soaking overnight or 6 to 8 hours. Northern beans and pinto beans work best for me.

  • @SKI1333
    @SKI1333 Рік тому +28

    This is sooo true for me. When I just put everything in a crockpot, I ALWAYS get gas, upset stomach and heartburn. When I started soaking the beans and rinsing them, none of it NEVER happens.

    • @tomrobards7753
      @tomrobards7753 Рік тому +5

      You bring them to a rolling boil take them off heat teaspoon of barking soda stir let them sit a while drain rrinse refill water and cook till your preference the soda rods the gas and heartburn

    • @crochet937
      @crochet937 Рік тому +2

      Have you tried adding a few pinches of baking soda?

    • @SKI1333
      @SKI1333 Рік тому +2

      @@crochet937 No, I haven’t. Does it work?

    • @crochet937
      @crochet937 Рік тому +1

      @@SKI1333 yes 🙂

    • @crochet937
      @crochet937 Рік тому +2

      @@SKI1333 A pinch of baking soda in your water will neutralize it and help your body's pH levels even out, that is if you are more on the acid side. You should research it though. 🙂

  • @streetcop157
    @streetcop157 Рік тому +82

    Put them in the slow cooker with a ham hock and walk away

    • @unapoligeticllyisrael2066
      @unapoligeticllyisrael2066 Рік тому +7

      Yeah I drop a smoked turkey wing in & 6 hrs later I got beans

    • @streetcop157
      @streetcop157 Рік тому +12

      @@unapoligeticllyisrael2066 I tried smoking a turkey once….23 packs of papers and I still couldn’t keep it lit…… ( my smoked turkey joke)

    • @low2749
      @low2749 Рік тому +4

      Exactly and then pray over your meal before you eat it.

    • @rmmccarthy1240
      @rmmccarthy1240 Рік тому +2

      Sir, walk AWAY from the beans.

    • @joshpsn-xapexxtrashx2091
      @joshpsn-xapexxtrashx2091 2 місяці тому

      Just fry up some bacon cut an onion in half salt pepper throw it all in there come back 8 hours later and enjoy. Dont forget your Mexican cornbread 😂 and your gas pills. Lol but man they're good

  • @apAvocado
    @apAvocado Рік тому +7

    This video is wrong. A modern slow cooker on high heat will get over 250°F, which is plenty high to cook unsoaked dried beans. I cook beans only on high in the slow cooker and they’re done in 4-6 hours. The information given at 4:09-25 is wrong. This is a bad video. Slow cookers from the 1970s may not cook your beans but a modern slow cooker will cook your beans.

    • @apAvocado
      @apAvocado 5 місяців тому

      @@plowe6751 Hamilton beach 6 quart. 1 pound dry beans sorted and washed. 8 cups of water. Four garlic cloves. Half of an onion. 1 teaspoon of salt. Stir thoroughly. Cover. 0:03 Set on high for six hours.

  • @williewynn4668
    @williewynn4668 Рік тому +11

    I soaked mine overnight and put them in the crock the next day with ham hocks and spices. No problems after years of doing this.

  • @ryanmckay2535
    @ryanmckay2535 Рік тому +10

    While I'm still very sceptical of this new fad that slow cooker beans are a danger. I always bring my dry beans to a boil in water for 10-15 minutes then remove from heat and cover for an hour. Many will refer to this as a "quick soak", I make a mean red beans and rice in the slow cooker using this method.

  • @billstreber5194
    @billstreber5194 Рік тому +6

    What about using modern-day pressure cookers to start off with and then change the setting to finish off whatever bean dish you are preparing

  • @evileyelash8094
    @evileyelash8094 10 місяців тому +3

    If you can't figure out how to use a slow cooker, like if you couldn't figure out a stove or an oven, please just stick to the microwave, toaster and electric kettle and nobody gets hurt 🙂
    If you just happen to know how to use a slow cooker, you can use the machine's "high" setting and cook for the appropriate amount of time required per the device's manual for the type of beans you are using.
    In any case, I'd think we'd definitely want to cook dried beans, of all things, soaked or not, for longer that 10 minutes!
    The argument is like saying that turning on the shower risks scalding 😅 Just learn how to use it first 😀

  • @SophieBird07
    @SophieBird07 Рік тому +9

    Bring them to a boil, let soak 30 mins. Change the water then carry on with whatever method you choose…no gas.

  • @dorothearobinson3455
    @dorothearobinson3455 Рік тому +20

    Soaking does speed up cooking 🧑‍🍳

  • @egmviola
    @egmviola Рік тому +6

    Not completely true. Soak beans overnight. Drain. Put beans in slow cooker with fresh water or chicken broth. (Add other ingredients to your heart's content except tomatoes because beans won't soften up with those 'maters!) and turn on HIGH. My slow cooker can get to a boiling point with no problem. However, my older slow cooker that's 40 years old does not get as hot. So I do think the age of slow cooker has something to do with it. Never use low setting or warm setting unless the beans are completely done. This has worked just fine with all beans except Kidney beans. They are the exception. Pintos, Northern, Navy, and Limas Beans do just fine so long as they soak overnight. Finally, do not soak split peas.

    • @apAvocado
      @apAvocado Рік тому +1

      This is the best advice here!

  • @zenomorph8806
    @zenomorph8806 10 місяців тому +8

    I’ve also used the crockpot for years. No issues. This sounds 💯 scare tactic… “or buy canned” (usda approved I’m sure)

  • @thestortellersbonfire0353
    @thestortellersbonfire0353 Рік тому +12

    I just soak them over night and throw them in the crockpot. I have never had problems with them.

    • @philanderphillips2309
      @philanderphillips2309 Рік тому +3

      Exactly!! I don’t even change the water multiple times. Soak overnight, rinse, slow cooker, eat. Couldn’t be simpler.

    • @thestortellersbonfire0353
      @thestortellersbonfire0353 Рік тому +4

      @@philanderphillips2309 true. I don't understand the issue here.

    • @kathleenjames1873
      @kathleenjames1873 Місяць тому

      @@thestortellersbonfire0353you would if your abdominal pain sent you to hospital . A few people cannot tolerate the excessive lectin found in non pre soaked beans . Those people should purchase canned beans .

  • @galanie
    @galanie Рік тому +6

    An Insta Pot takes food above the boiling point. Thats what pressure cookers do. Its physics that causes it to be possible. Math that you don't even know you're using. I cook beans, sometimes unsoaked (depends on bean type), in my InstaPot for around 40 minutes. That's longer than needed probably but i like them really soft. They are not slow cookers, and are fine. Here, they are discussing slow cookers which is a different thing. If you want them really soft and good, cook a pot then cool it and leave it in the fridge over night. Next day those beans will be really soft and good and in almost a gravy like canned beans do.
    I don't understand why anyone would be so against throwing beans in a pot, then water, and just leaving them overnight to soak. It's not like a lot of work.

  • @RobertSmith-gx3mi
    @RobertSmith-gx3mi 6 місяців тому

    Made my first one and a half pounds of Boston style baked beans this past weekend.
    I could not improve on the flavor.
    I had the slow cooker pulled out and then I remembered I got a bean pot two decades ago.
    Cooked them in the bean pot and they turned out perfect.

  • @optionout
    @optionout Рік тому +6

    I've cooked raw beans in slow cooker before. Didn't even soak them. Turned out fine, outside of LOTS of GAS.

  • @wemcal
    @wemcal Рік тому +2

    Great video.. i never soak my beans, slow cooker or pressure cooker.. I always add a turkey leg to the beans.

  • @throwaway692
    @throwaway692 Рік тому +4

    Parsons is just plain wrong. The whole reason I soak my beans is so I don't get that gritty, mealy, half cooked bean flesh even after considerable cooking. Neither does adding salt to the soak make your beans tuff. Not sure how that rumor got started either.

  • @dorothearobinson3455
    @dorothearobinson3455 Рік тому +11

    Soak your bean. Less gas in digestion 😅

  • @loboheeler
    @loboheeler Рік тому +2

    Large dried beans have longer cooking times. Lima, cranberry, fava, etc. really need soaking. Dried whole peas are especially slow to cook. My small slow cooker is a slow boil on high, which has worked fine.

  • @brendaowens2466
    @brendaowens2466 Рік тому +6

    It depends on the bean. I would never cook them without soaking them.

  • @TheKat1959
    @TheKat1959 Рік тому +8

    I have cooked them both ways. Only issue is no good bean ‘gravy’, like you get on the stove top. Both take forever if you want good beans.

    • @philanderphillips2309
      @philanderphillips2309 Рік тому +2

      Add extra beans, so you can smash them inside the pot, thus giving you a creamier texture / “bean gravy”.

  • @dylano7242
    @dylano7242 Рік тому +2

    A salt brine soak beaks up the lectin capsule that can cause gas and gastric probkems, and allows magnesium be more easily accessible in digestion

  • @travisyarbrough4033
    @travisyarbrough4033 Рік тому +3

    Seer or pressure cooked in our Ninja Foodi 8 Quart but never slow and low from raw

  • @leadfoot1229
    @leadfoot1229 Рік тому +3

    I pressure cook my beans in my Ninja. Do not have to spend 8 hrs of electricity, or worry about them burning like they do in a crock pot. I have also put a ham hock or two with them. And use my stainless steel inside when I want to turn my black beans into soup with my immersion blender. Gave my crock pot away!!!

  • @samanthashaw8329
    @samanthashaw8329 Рік тому +4

    The more you fart the better your heart

  • @xX.D3DP00L_Xx
    @xX.D3DP00L_Xx Рік тому +2

    also that last bit you said is literally impossible. a slow cooker gets to 300f, theres no way a fully cooked bean is only going to be at only 167f. thats ludicrous . it boils. so its already at 212f. beans take 4 to 5 hrs to cook at that temp. they will 100% be at 212f

    • @tropicaoptica
      @tropicaoptica Рік тому

      For sure! My chuck roasts get to an internal temp of 200+, and I've overcooked them to 210+ before too! I actually had to switch to an older model of crock pot for my grass fed chucks because they get way too hot and way too fast even on low. New models should not be an issue at all for cooking beans.

    • @Hambonebodi
      @Hambonebodi Рік тому

      I think they are meaning the low setting .

  • @onrycodger
    @onrycodger Рік тому +6

    Wait!....What??? Girl, you better kno this o'l mountain man soaks his beans. Has a killer cornbread recipe too.

    • @markcollins2666
      @markcollins2666 Рік тому +2

      As a professional old school cook, I find that half their information is wrong, just the opinions of the trendies of today. And when it comes to their "You've been doing this or that wrong your entire life" videos, I don't even bother with. And we're hill people too, living on the side of a volcano on an island in the South Pacific. No one has crock pots or microwaves, half the people here still cook on open wood fires! There are no gas pipes, because of the volcano, and earthquakes. I would love to see if a city living American woman could survive here for a week!

    • @crochet937
      @crochet937 Рік тому

      You are awesome! 😄

  • @xX.D3DP00L_Xx
    @xX.D3DP00L_Xx Рік тому +2

    you dont need to soak. it basically does nothing. you also do not need to use a low setting on the crockpot to cook, only to warm. cook on high 4 hrs the day before, refrigerate, then throw into the crock pot on low.

    • @joesobhi
      @joesobhi Рік тому +1

      your method is very very bad and take one week shame on you

  • @Queenintheblack
    @Queenintheblack Рік тому

    Hmm, but its ok to use a microwave i our homes??

  • @joanbelmont5450
    @joanbelmont5450 Рік тому +2

    So what, I don’t care if I fart. My farts don’t smell bad.

    • @gregorio87
      @gregorio87 2 місяці тому

      Well, you're also a bit biased. Everyone likes their own scent, ha.

  • @evileyelash8094
    @evileyelash8094 10 місяців тому +2

    This ridiculous argument should teach you that journalists don't have to know or understand anything about cooking to write their opinions on the subject 😉

  • @francinebowman990
    @francinebowman990 Рік тому +2

    I soak, rinse, and boil, then slow cook.No tummy ache!!

  • @smellyfella5077
    @smellyfella5077 Рік тому +2

    Beans, beans, good for your heart, the more you eat the more you fart, the more you fart the better you feel...so it eat beans, beans with every meal!

  • @Nobody18718
    @Nobody18718 3 місяці тому

    Speaking from personal experience soaking the beans with a touch of baking soda has saved my gut from really bad gas pains.
    If you experience really painful stomach pains from raw cooking... Try soaking it made a world of a difference.
    Yes I've tried it with differnt beans and it's been all the same

    • @mountainman4859
      @mountainman4859 3 місяці тому

      How much baking soda per pound of beans?
      And I’ve heard baking soda AND apple cider Vinegar in the soak will neutralize the gas.

    • @Nobody18718
      @Nobody18718 3 місяці тому

      @@mountainman4859 a spoonful

  • @danh5637
    @danh5637 Рік тому +2

    They’re not raw beans. They’re dried beans.

  • @ricksorber9562
    @ricksorber9562 Рік тому

    Ive attempted baked beans twice. The first time i soaked them overnight. The next morning i mixed everything and turned the crockpot on. Thirteen hours later they were still so hard i couldn't eat them.
    Next time i boiled them for 10 minutes, drained, rinsed and boiled for an hour. Then i put them in the crockpot. After about 9 hours they were really good. I dont know why.

    • @gregorio87
      @gregorio87 2 місяці тому

      Sounds like a faulty crockpot. 13 hours? The liquid is boiling around the 5 hour mark or so in my crockpot on low, and it's probably 10 years old. Just can't imagine 13 hours and your beans were still hard

  • @mroblige1018
    @mroblige1018 5 місяців тому

    The ppl who say don't soak your beans are the same ones who created 400 different casseroles, don't season the meat, and put raisins in the potato salad

  • @SandmanFightingSys
    @SandmanFightingSys Рік тому +2

    Been doing this 20 years

  • @mstsp9546
    @mstsp9546 Рік тому

    Useful info.

  • @partlycloudyoptimist809
    @partlycloudyoptimist809 Рік тому +2

    Now I’m scared to cook the beans I soaked over night.

    • @wildrangeringreen
      @wildrangeringreen Рік тому

      man, how'd all those "indians" cook their beans in clay pots with small fires and NOT die? Must've been magic or something...
      lol modern people are so weird, worrying about little things, while letting big things go without a thought.
      Lectin (the main compound though to cause digestive problems with pulses) is a protein breaks down over time in a heated aqueous solution over time... period (similar to how the proteins that make up muscle fibers in meat break down to become "tender"). The hotter you get it, the quicker it breaks down, the lower the temperature, the longer it has to cook. very simple. Overnight soaking softens the outer layer of the beans (breaking down lectin), and hydrates the pulse so it can accept it's full charge of water and cook more quickly than if you started from dry beans. You don't need to do it, but it reduces cooking time a bit.

    • @smartgirlnyc
      @smartgirlnyc Місяць тому

      My Grandma did it this way for over 60 years

  • @MorticiaAddams23
    @MorticiaAddams23 Рік тому +1

    Yea....no. I'm not listening to this video at all. Beans in the slow cooker are delish. Ima still cool them that way.

  • @vaticanjesuitNWO
    @vaticanjesuitNWO Рік тому +2

    Came here to learn why I should never cook raw beans in my slow cooker. But I couldn't hear what the reader was saying for the overwhelmingly loud and monotonous and irritating music. Why did you waste my time? Why did you waste YOUR time?

    • @1avrils
      @1avrils 7 місяців тому

      Soak and boil first, what she said was a contradiction as you need to do that regardless but she says not to cook at all, that’s only from raw though. Ignore

    • @gregorio87
      @gregorio87 2 місяці тому

      Yeah, F**K this stupid BS video. The damn noise just kept getting louder and louder over the shit information. Couldn't decide which pissed me off more

  • @lorrieprothero2175
    @lorrieprothero2175 Рік тому

    Baking soda helps break down the beans for better digestion

  • @mountainman4859
    @mountainman4859 3 місяці тому

    Soak the beans overnight. Rinse them. Then boil them for 10 minutes to neutralize most of the lectins……THEN add them to the crockpot.
    Problem solved.

  • @highlightoftheday7058
    @highlightoftheday7058 6 місяців тому

    I don't care about those lectins. I just want a quick and efficient way of getting these beans cooked and into my stomach.

  • @Rj-dq1qe
    @Rj-dq1qe 10 місяців тому

    Soak the beans overnight and rinse them before you cook them because it releases sugars that cause gas.

  • @darionrobinson1
    @darionrobinson1 Рік тому +2

    beans are yummy

  • @jasoncampbell8797
    @jasoncampbell8797 10 місяців тому

    I call bullcrap. We’ve always slow cooked on high and never had any issues.

  • @joshc441
    @joshc441 Рік тому

    What about in my instant pot?

  • @kaysmith4558
    @kaysmith4558 7 місяців тому

    Use an Instant Pot, gets rid of most of the lectins.

  • @petegomez8125
    @petegomez8125 6 місяців тому

    Why are you texting me at 4 in the morning with a pot of beans?

  • @joshhardin666
    @joshhardin666 Рік тому +1

    I don't think I've ever bought beans that didn't come from a can... why would someone buy raw beans? that seems weird.

    • @bygodfreeman
      @bygodfreeman Рік тому +4

      Cheaper.

    • @gvdlc
      @gvdlc Рік тому +6

      Because when you make good homemade beans canned beans taste weird and blah...

    • @PeterLawton
      @PeterLawton Рік тому

      Some people grow their own beans.

    • @sharonkrushak8590
      @sharonkrushak8590 Рік тому +2

      Because you can add whatever you want without extra chemicals, salt etc and they taste so much better

  • @MrSkinnyhimself
    @MrSkinnyhimself Рік тому +1

    Nah not believing this 1.

  • @Hambonebodi
    @Hambonebodi Рік тому

    Lol , eight to ten hours on high in a crock , with plenty of grease and hog meat .❤

  • @justmrpandme
    @justmrpandme 3 місяці тому

    rubbish!