Took 3 hours to boil Red Bean Soup!
By peachpurple
@peachpurple (13961)
Malaysia
July 15, 2017 1:16am CST
I was extremely surprised that it took me 3 hours to boil read bean soup in a pressure cooker. By logic, a pressure cooker should be able to reduce the cooking time by half of the normal pot.
However, these red beans were still raw and hard when the pressure cooker was boiling them in an hour. Previously, I had soaked the raw red beans in a bowl with hot water overnight. This will help to soften the beans texture, but it did not.
May I know, what went wrong? Wasted 3 hours of gas consumption !
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10 responses
@prashu228 (37518)
• India
15 Jul 17
oh then that's the problem , i should check it before buying..
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@peachpurple (13961)
• Malaysia
15 Jul 17
Thanks but red beans sold here are loose not pre packed. Maybe there is a way to know the appearance of old beand?
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@vsai2008 (11794)
• India
15 Jul 17
@prashu228 Yes and soak overnight or 6-8 hours minimum :)
I hope this helps you :)
@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
15 Jul 17
The beans were either old or you had added salt to the water before boiling them. Both will lengthen the time it takes beans to cook. Soaking might have helped reduce the time a little but, basically, the older a bean is, the longer it will take to break down and become soft.
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
15 Jul 17
@peachpurple I don't know what effect sugar has when cooking beans. I do know that the older beans are, the longer they take to cook and that there is a point (I don't know when but it probably depends on storage conditions as well as age) when beans just will never soften completely..
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@kiran8 (15348)
• Mangalore, India
15 Jul 17
@peachpurple The only explanation I can think of is that it was probably old and become very dry from the inside
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@peachpurple (13961)
• Malaysia
15 Jul 17
mine was a lot of whistles, took many peeps, use a fork poke the beans, nope cannot punch thru
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@peachpurple (13961)
• Malaysia
19 Jul 17
It did but the beans are still semi hard
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@prashu228 (37518)
• India
15 Jul 17
yes this happened with me as well, i soaked before night , but they didn't get cooked , in the pressure cooker, never understood why..
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@gauti2483 (587)
• India
15 Jul 17
This is very sad
pressure cooker are taking lots of time
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@peachpurple (13961)
• Malaysia
15 Jul 17
i did, from night 10pm to next morning 10am, still not enough? maybe 10pm ?
@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
15 Jul 17
This is also my problem when boiling stringbeans and mongo beans, it took me lots of time.
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@peachpurple (13961)
• Malaysia
15 Jul 17
yeah, there must be a secret, otherwise how do the coffee shop sell this dessert?
