You can speed up cooking with a pressure cooker (a regular pressure cooker or an Instant Pot). Or go low and slow with a slow cooker - the slow cooker takes a long tme, but you don't have to babysit the beans during cooking.
But yes, they still have to be soaked before cooking.
Some folks like to season and cook the beans to their taste. Dried beans are much cheaper per serving and keep a long time in their uncooked state with no chance of botulinum bacteria ruining them. You can keep the sodium low too.
Canned beans are great for saving time if you haven't cooked any dried beans ahead of time. I use both dried and canned in my kitchen.
Just my humble opinion - why buy dried beans ? You have to soak them for ten hours. Just buy the cans.
Dried beans are a whole lot cheaper, and are also shelf stable for a lot longer so good for emergency food storage.
I seem to have pushed the alert button for the dried bean defense organization. Have donned the flak jacket, helmet and am manning the AA guns.
JOIN US OR DIE.
jk pede!
....but seriously, join us.
I threw out my last stash of dried beans because people here are too lazy to soak. My family is incredibly lazy.
That's what the fam wanted and they were on sale.
Make some microwavable heating pads with them.
I have sewn a few, but my best and comfiest heating pad is an XL cotton men's sock filled with beans. Fun family project.
Notes: 1. white beans have less smell than dark beans when nuked. 2. Sock must be cotton (elastic/polyester will melt in microwave).
Nobody in my home has the patience and foresight to soak beans - but yes, better prepared people than us do soak beans.
You can speed up cooking with a pressure cooker (a regular pressure cooker or an Instant Pot). Or go low and slow with a slow cooker - the slow cooker takes a long tme, but you don't have to babysit the beans during cooking.
But yes, they still have to be soaked before cooking.
Some folks like to season and cook the beans to their taste. Dried beans are much cheaper per serving and keep a long time in their uncooked state with no chance of botulinum bacteria ruining them. You can keep the sodium low too. Canned beans are great for saving time if you haven't cooked any dried beans ahead of time. I use both dried and canned in my kitchen.
Sounds reasonable to me.
This. Soak and rinse and they won't make you farty. The texture is so much nicer than canned too.
They're definitely better than canned
You save a lot of money too, making your beans from dried beans
Dude they are SO much better than canned!
"Fresh" is always better!
Dried is fresh, now ? OK. Well, if you want to eat dried beans, go ahead - I won't call the cops on you.
Thus the quatation marks
The dried are better. Use the quick method on the bag. I never remember to soak them.