Soaking them just rehydrates them, but they have to cook to get soft.
Imagine a dried apple. Now imagine soaking it until it was back to (or at least close to) it's original state. It would still be firm. Now imagine cooking it (mmmmm, apple crisp :) ).
Same thing with beans. :)
BTW, I have no idea if it would really work to soak dried apples and bake them like fresh ones, I'm just illustrating with a food we tend to be more familiar with in all of it's states (as opposed to beans, which we rarely see "fresh").
The beans might have swollen a bit bigger whilst you've been soaking them?
Don't forget to boil them hard for 10 mins when you start cooking - and throw away the water, if you're in any doubt. This will denature the toxins in raw kidney beans.
I usually soak them for about eight or ten hours, then drain, rinse, and boil them until soft. i'm sure you could skip the middle steps and just cook with them until they soften :)
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Imagine a dried apple. Now imagine soaking it until it was back to (or at least close to) it's original state. It would still be firm. Now imagine cooking it (mmmmm, apple crisp :) ).
Same thing with beans. :)
BTW, I have no idea if it would really work to soak dried apples and bake them like fresh ones, I'm just illustrating with a food we tend to be more familiar with in all of it's states (as opposed to beans, which we rarely see "fresh").
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Don't forget to boil them hard for 10 mins when you start cooking - and throw away the water, if you're in any doubt. This will denature the toxins in raw kidney beans.
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