Too many beans and their relationship to crock pots.

[anoceanview]

My clever, beautiful, but absent-minded sweetheart accidentally soaked six times the beans the we needed for soup today. Does anyone know if beans can be successfully frozen between the soaking and cooking phase

Comments

[vegaenglit]

yes. i freeze "half-cooked" beans all the time.

and when using dry beans in the crock pot, you usually still need to get them started. the salt and acid (like tomatoes) in many crock pot recipes will screw with their cooking.

[rebbyribs]

Yes! And when they thaw, they'll cook up faster than usual.

[quietgrrl]

Be careful with your crock pot and beans! You have to boil the beans for at least 15 minutes in a regular pot before you put them in a crock pot. If you don't you risk poison!
More info see "Disadvantages" here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crock_pot#Disadvantages

[anoceanview]

Yikes! Well, fortunately the bean soup I set up in there an hour or two ago can be safely tossed with no shortage of beans to boil stove-top before trying again. Thanks for the heads up!

[pumpkingirl71]

I am pretty skeptical of this. I have a family of five, including three kids who were raised on crock pot cooked bean from the age of nine months on. My crock pot does seem to get hotter than most, but not to a real boil...We eat beans cooked in the crock pot about once a week, some weeks more.

[mynamesnotlinda]

I always cooks my beans in my crockpot. I usually just soak them the day/night before. Rinse. Cover them with new water and cut on low for 6-8 hours. They always come out super creamy and wonderful. Also, always remember to NEVER salt your beans until AFTER they're done cooking. Salting them before hand makes them super tough and a little chewy.

[fetishangel]

I'm glad you asked that. My sweetheart soaks 6 times the beans we need for anything at any given time, and then I go on a panic for a week trying to use it all up.