I’ve cooked just about everything for 20 years in a pressure cooker, including bread, never had it explode except with pinto beans. The bean skin got bought in the neck of the presure cooker. Ceiling walls, I’m just glad no one was in the room.

I’ve kept beans soaking in the fridge for almost 2 days and they were absolutely fine!

Hi Pranav, it’s a good point that we should consider adding pressure cooker instructions to this post. We do have separate posts for instant pot black beans and instant pot pinto beans specifically.

Id never waste my time. As when I cook beans I cook 10 cups of dried beans, puruenos. Which I know are fresh as we grow them in our almond orchards. I soak for 24 hours changing the water at least 4 times. That and simmering them for me about 2 hours tops. I also add, 10 cloves of garlic 2 medium sized onions yellow,whites, and 4-6 bay leaves mine were small. Followed by sea salt about 3 tablespoons spoons around the hour mark. Super delicious. I make this every 2 weeks. I store them in freezer bags for a quick cheap meal of enfrijoladas, bean and cheese quesadillas,tacos. I lay them flat so they store better and defrost quickly. Hope some one trys this.

I appreciate your method for cooking soaked white beans by checking every 30 mins for tenderness. Too often I have cooked them and they still seem too hard. I guess it’s the freshness of the dry white bean that you buy from the store which counts. If it is 2 hours for simmering….then that is what I will do, (if they do not come to the correct tenderness). I am cooking white beans tonight in a smoked ham broth which has crushed cloves, cinnamon sticks and the cooked and strained skin of a smoked ham joint and then adding them to a celery, carrot onion dry white wine, diced garlic and tomato based sauce. I have guests for lunch tomorrow… Thank you again!!!

I think that would be fine!

Can you cook them in a crockpot rather than the stovetop? I would love to set and forget for a couple hours or so.

Hi Lacey, you can soak them in the fridge if you prefer!