We Tested 5 Ways to Cook Dried Beans — and the Winner Ensures a Perfect Pot

For tender, intact beans, this reliable method cannot be beat.

Do You Really Need to Soak Dried Beans Overnight? Here’s What Experts Say

We’ve all heard that dried beans need to soak overnight to ready them for recipes, but how long is "overnight"? "Beans need ...
AOL

No, You Don’t Need to Soak Your Beans — Here’s Why

Soaking dried beans isn’t always necessary, since it saves little cooking time and can even diminish flavor in some varieties like black beans. Instead of soaking, a quick five- to 10-minute boil ...
Lifehacker

You Don't Have to Soak Dried Beans Overnight

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. Dried beans are a truly versatile kitchen staple ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Soaking beans? In most cases, you don’t need to

Before someone brings up the whole digestibility issue, the benefits of soaking beans to relieve that have pretty much been disproven. Most of the gastric distress (my, we’re finding a lot of ...