Yes - soak beans first overnight - it also helps you digest them easier. Also - don't put any salt or salty things in when the beans are cooking - salt keeps em hard! I made a black bean and ham soup to use up some ham leftovers from Christmas day, so I soaked the beans overnight, cooked them for about 3 hours on high in the crockpot, THEN added the ham and the rest of the soup ingredients and made the soup and the beans were nice and soft.
I once put ham in with some beans from the beginning and oh lord. Those beans NEVER got soft no matter how long I cooked them. It was so dissapointing!!! I'm glad yours softened up on the stovetop (I love white beans too!!!)
Oooh thank you for the bean tip, my fellow domestic goddess! I will do it your way next time! I am thinking about making the 16 bean soup some time. Have you ever made it?
No - I didn't even know that Goya made a package like that!! I usually see the mixes in fancy bags all trussed up in ribbon and sold for $5 which of course is insane - dried beans are some of the most inexpensive things on earth!!! :) but now that I see that Goya makes a normally priced mix I will DEF try it!! Let me know what you do with it, and I'll do the same!!
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I once put ham in with some beans from the beginning and oh lord. Those beans NEVER got soft no matter how long I cooked them. It was so dissapointing!!! I'm glad yours softened up on the stovetop (I love white beans too!!!)
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