Why You Should Absolutely Never Cook Raw Beans In A Slow Cooker
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- Everyone loves a good food controversy, but the biggest throwdown might be the most unexpected one: What's the right way to cook dried beans? And where exactly does your slow cooker fit into this whole thing?
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What tips do you have for cooking up some beans?
Amen❤❤❤❤❤
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.
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. 👍
Absolutely 💯
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.
Put them in the slow cooker with a ham hock and walk away
Yeah I drop a smoked turkey wing in & 6 hrs later I got beans
@@unapoligeticllyisrael2066 I tried smoking a turkey once….23 packs of papers and I still couldn’t keep it lit…… ( my smoked turkey joke)
Exactly and then pray over your meal before you eat it.
Sir, walk AWAY from the beans.
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.
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.
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
Have you tried adding a few pinches of baking soda?
@@crochet937 No, I haven’t. Does it work?
@@SKI1333 yes 🙂
@@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. 🙂
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.
I'm Caribbean, my entire race has always eaten raw beans for thousands of years and none of us have digestive issues. Beans are an important part of our everyday diet. We prep and cook beans in many different ways.
You already kno what race don't soak beans. They also don't season chicken
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.
Soaking does speed up cooking 🧑🍳
I’ve also used the crockpot for years. No issues. This sounds 💯 scare tactic… “or buy canned” (usda approved I’m sure)
Bring them to a boil, let soak 30 mins. Change the water then carry on with whatever method you choose…no gas.
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
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.
Soak your bean. Less gas in digestion 😅
I just soak them over night and throw them in the crockpot. I have never had problems with them.
Exactly!! I don’t even change the water multiple times. Soak overnight, rinse, slow cooker, eat. Couldn’t be simpler.
@@philanderphillips2309 true. I don't understand the issue here.
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.
Add extra beans, so you can smash them inside the pot, thus giving you a creamier texture / “bean gravy”.
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.
It depends on the bean. I would never cook them without soaking them.
Great video.. i never soak my beans, slow cooker or pressure cooker.. I always add a turkey leg to the beans.
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.
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.
Useful info.
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 😀
Seer or pressure cooked in our Ninja Foodi 8 Quart but never slow and low from raw
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.
This is the best advice here!
Why not soak split peas? The last bag of dried split peas I bought would not soften properly even after soaking for 24 hours and slow cooking on high for 12 hours.
I've cooked raw beans in slow cooker before. Didn't even soak them. Turned out fine, outside of LOTS of GAS.
Try a few pinches of baking soda.
That's the only was to cook beans
@@crochet937 TY.
@@optionout YW
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
Wait!....What??? Girl, you better kno this o'l mountain man soaks his beans. Has a killer cornbread recipe too.
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!
You are awesome! 😄
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!!!
The more you fart the better your heart
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.
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
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.
I think they are meaning the low setting .
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.
What brand and size slow cooker do you use?
@@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.
@@apAvocado Did you stick a thermometer into your slow cooker?
Hmm, but its ok to use a microwave i our homes??
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.
your method is very very bad and take one week shame on you
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!
Been doing this 20 years
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 😉
Now I’m scared to cook the beans I soaked over night.
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.
What about in my instant pot?
I soak, rinse, and boil, then slow cook.No tummy ache!!
How long do you boil them for? Thank you
About 15-20 mins
@@francinebowman990 Thank you!
They’re not raw beans. They’re dried beans.
So what, I don’t care if I fart. My farts don’t smell bad.
Baking soda helps break down the beans for better digestion
beans are yummy
Why are you texting me at 4 in the morning with a pot of beans?
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
Soak the beans overnight and rinse them before you cook them because it releases sugars that cause gas.
Use an Instant Pot, gets rid of most of the lectins.
Yea....no. I'm not listening to this video at all. Beans in the slow cooker are delish. Ima still cool them that way.
I call bullcrap. We’ve always slow cooked on high and never had any issues.
I don't care about those lectins. I just want a quick and efficient way of getting these beans cooked and into my stomach.
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.
Cheaper.
Because when you make good homemade beans canned beans taste weird and blah...
Some people grow their own beans.
Because you can add whatever you want without extra chemicals, salt etc and they taste so much better
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?
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
Lol , eight to ten hours on high in a crock , with plenty of grease and hog meat .❤
Nah not believing this 1.