Instant Pot and Slow Cooker Beans (Helen was Wrong!)
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Instant Pot and Slow Cooker Beans (Helen was Wrong!) The easiest way to cook dry beans (no soaking) My model of instant pot is Duo: https://amzn.to/32odFFl …
I soak my beans with a little baking soda then rinse well. My sister boils them for 20 minutes then rinsed and puts fresh water to cook them. I bought my daughter an instant pot she loves it. Do you have a recommendation for deep fryer? We do a lot of chicken French fries and egg rolls in our house. I like cabbage although I used garlic in mine I've seen pomegranate molasses in other videos. I will get some and try it.
Pressure cooking and soaking beans is beneficial, so I always elect to cook them this way, at least always pressure cooking. Beans contain and inflammatory protein, a lectin, in very high amounts (many other foods also have this, which is why proper dieting knowledge and food preparation is important) and this can cause digestive distress or other damage to your body over the long term, if not instantaneously depending on your overall health. In some cases it can even be fatal, as is the case with kidney beans. Soaking reduces lectins, and pressure cooking reaches temperatures hot enough to completely destroy lectins in some foods, beans being one of them, making them a very healthy food when they otherwise would not be.
Pressure cooking foods like beans, quinoa, and nightshades, makes them digest much better and not damage your body in general over time, by nullifying lectins.
I like using a stovetop pressure cooker as they have good sizes for making smaller portions, if you are only cooking for 1-2 people most of the time.
Hi guys. If you get a sore tummy from beans use asafoetida. Many cultures use this when cooking beans and pulses. Generally, the yellow, diluted asafoetida powder is used to the proportion of a pinch or two, to 250g of the main ingredient. The undiluted powder is used in smaller amounts. You'll quickly discover if you like more or less, and there's no harm done if you use too much โ longer cooking mellows it.
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So helpful! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
I cook beans in the instant pot using pressure cooking and they all come out great!
#RealComment: Helen, I'm not yet an Instant Pot user, but I see that on the Duo there already is a preprogrammed setting for cooking beans ("Bean / Chili", it reads). Why wouldn't that work best? Have you (or others) tried it? Thanks.
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Oustanding video. Very helpfull indeed.
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I just got the pot. Cooked my fav beans, mixed Indian dals, using the "bean" function. It saves a ton of time but the flavor is just lacking compared with 12hrs stovetop slow cooking. Googling for using the slow cooker function, found your vid. Will try it soon after finishing the current batch.
I cook all beans in the pressure cooker without soaking after having them chemically and biologically analysed. And the result is that depending on the season they may pick up bacteria which starts to ferment the beans and the fermented starch can cause stomach and head ache, even migraine. No matter if you rinse or not.
In the pressure cooker, I start a heavy boiling process, until the valve steams heavily, and then put the pot on the smallest gas flame I have. The pressure goes down to just little above the moment the security valve opens, and I cook the beans at that temperature for 4 hours (cannellini size). Then they are perfect. Lentils take 1 hour, peas 1-2 hours.
You weren't wrong. I use the preassure cooker to waste less time/energy/gas. Not more. I'm sure as hell not cooking beans for hours. If I wanted to cook slow, I would use a stove.
Thank you.
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Would you be able to recommend a style (duo, duo nova or other). How about size for 4-5 servings?
This would be very helpful.
Appreciate any information that you are able to provide. Thank you
7 hours for cooking beans.. Thatโs is totally wrong. You need 1/2 hrs only.
This is how you do it. The old School way.
Place the beans in a bot full of water from night till morning then wash it. Add it to the pressure cooker, ad water( the water should be more than the beans till the beans are almost hard to see). Set the pressure cooker to 30 minutes
Done. It will be smooth, soft and easy to eat.
How long would you cook barlotto beans in the slow cooker.
For the Goya 16-bean blend, which contains sturdy beans (pinto, black), fragile beans (great northern, small white), a variety of peas, plus lentils and barley, what time would you recommend? Should they be cooked for 12 hours and let the fragile beans get mushy, or cooked for 7 hours and let the sturdy beans be a little tough? Or, should you just avoid the 16 bean blend altogether? Thanks!
I make a ham and bean soup. Can I use 8 cups of ham stock instead of water?
Best way of cooking beans ever!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Last year, ou were comparing a stovetop pressure cooker to an electric pressure cooker. In this video, you are talking about how to do beans the slow cooker function of the instant pot. I do not think they are the same. And you were not wrong last year about the instant pot pressure cooking function is not working for beans. Most convenience of a pressure cooker is being fast. And stovetop is for sure faster than the electric pressure cooker as you know it. Thank you for all your great delish sharing.
You are the sweetest instant pot mentor! So cute!
I was a bit worried about the food poisoning issue with slow cooking, and looked into it in the scientific literature and found a paper on it, apparently pressure cooking for 15 minutes or so probably DOESN'T destroy all the phytohaemagglutinin UNLESS you presoak it. It looks like it takes 45 minutes to do that without presoaking. And at 80C it takes 2 hours, whereas you're doing 12 hours at 90C, so it's safe. Presumably your stomach ache, when you didn't soak, was it reacting to the remaining traces of the poison. So the slow cooking above 80C for several hours looks like a great way to go, as you say.
WARNING: Please do NOT slow cook red kidney beans!
Red kidney beans are high in phytohemagglutinin, which can cause severe GI issues. It probably won't kill you, but you will be pretty miserable for a few hours. Dry red kidney beans should be soaked, the soaking water discarded, and then boiled for at least 10 minutes — the FDA recommends 30 minutes to be safe. It's really the boiling that matters here, as it deactivates the PHA. Slow cooking at too low a temperature can actually concentrate the toxins. Pressure cooking should also be safe, as the temperature will go above the boiling point. Canned red kidney beans have also already been rendered safe.
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I love your videos. Always so carefully thought out. In my own little corner of the world I have a reputation for beans that taste great and do NOT give people gas. I wash my beans in about 3 changes of water and scrub them between my hands. This helps remove some of that stuff that causes the problem. Then soak over night. With pintos, I cook them on high pressure for about 28 minutes and they're very creamy and not falling apart. Here is the TRICK that I got from a nice old granny—–peel and quarter a couple of potatoes and add them to the pot while the beans cook. DO NOT EAT THE POTATO! They absorb much more of the gas causing stuff. The nice granny told me that her mother always did it that way and once she dared her brother to eat the potato——he nearly exploded. lol I thought the potato would fall apart, but it doesn't. Just fish it out and throw it away. Tender tummy friends are amazed that they can enjoy my beans without issues. ๐ I think a big spoonful of Better Than Bouillon Chicken Stock base gives a great flavor to my beans.
Please make a video on how to cook dried lima beans with smoked ham hocks. I am from the south and I love lima beans but have not had good luck cooking dried lima beans, it seems like half of the pot comes out perfect and the other half is a mixture of mushy and hard beans.
Kid your goodness just shines through I know nobody's perfect but on this side of heaven it's people like you that make other people want to be better people lol cheers.
Helen…put my kidney beans last nite in my ip ultra on medium ( unsoaked) since everyone said low wld never work! This morning they were crunchy so I have set them on 8 min high pr. Let's see what happens..my question is why did my slow cooker function on medium not cook my beans even after 11 hrs!! Was hoping to have perfect creamy beans after 11 hrs!!
#realcomment. Thank you for this video! Any guesses on cooking time for black eyed peas? Happy New Year!
Thanks for the revised bean cooking review but I am surprised that you salted the beans while cooking. I have always been told not to salt beans until after cooking because salt can make them tough.
Is it possible that the pressure cooked beans were damaged because of too rapid pressure release? Iโm aware that certain foods โsufferโ when they are subjected to the violence of a manual/rapid pressure release. I just hate the thought of not using the pressure cooker for dry beans as this is one of its most attractive features.
Enjoying the IP Slow Cooker Beans prompted me to research the origins of why we pre-soak dried beans. Folk wisdom tells us that dried beans are soaked overnight with water discarded or briefly boiled and soaked for a shortened length of time, and the water discarded. After checking, I found a 50:50 split for pros and cons. Advocates for discarding soaking water warn about toxins that can be ingested. While those cooks who soak and cook in the same water claim that cooking temperatures destroy anything harmful. I wonder which process bean canning companies use?
Great info!
Amusinging video Helen ๐๐
Thanks Helen. Never cooked dried beans until I seen your previous video. Since then I have cooked various varieties on the stove top, with decent results. Now that we have your blessing ๐ I will try your Instant Pot method. Two questions though. Do you have any ideas for flavouring the broth? When would you add them?
My long-time problem beans are Black Beans: they almost never turn out tender for me (even after soaking and using my pressure cooker). Suggestions welcome.
Beans give Helen stomach pain! What a gentle way of expressing the problem. Those of us who are more crude have a more descriptive way of expressing that problem.
Interesting. I just started making natto (soybeans). I found that using a wire mesh strainer designed for the Instant Pot works better than immersing the beans in water to cook them to avoid breaking the skins. Soybeans are soaked for 24 hours prior to cooking. Still working on how long to cook the soybeans under pressure. Natto Dad cooks his in a 15 psi stove top pressure cooker for 40 minutes using a wire mesh strainer. I'm doing double that time in an Instant Pot. Have to try the slow cooker method sometime based on this video.
Hi Helen
I cook beans on a weekly bases for years already, usually itโs for 24 hours in a slow cooker and I started recently cooking it in the instant pot for about 2 hours on pressure cook (High setting) with a natural release for another hour, I have to say that itโs not the same as 24 hours in a slow cooker but itโs not bad
Everyone I ha ve ever heard told me that you shouldn't put salt in the water until the last minute because otherwise the skill will peel off, was that wrong?
Hello Helen . Can compare the weight of the different salts with the kosher one you use , i think this would be helpfull for us that we cant have the kosher.
I love that you make such a big deal when you feel you're wrong about something. You're the best ๐
Need to try this out! I donโt mind the bean setting but if it can be improved Iโm gonna try it
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Our Instant Pot just arrived yesterday (Black Friday Deal) and now you bring out this Video just in time ๐ค.