I am making a beef/veggie soup. I have about 4 hours. Can I put small red beans in the crock with everything else? Normally I open a can of red beans, but my mother cannot eat foods from a can. I know to sort and wash them. TIA
Marda, I cook dry pinto beans in the crock pot all the time, but it takes all day. The juice is thinner. The red beans say they only take 2 hours, but I wasn't sure how that would relate to a crock pot. I tried boiling them for an hour and hopefully it works!!! I will let ya know.
Usually, the quick way to use dried beans if you haven't soaked them overnight is to boil them for an hour. If your soup is just simmering (not boiling) I would boil them vigorously for an hour (stick around to add water). Then drain and rinse them and put them in the soup.
Be careful with red beans... they have a toxin in them. They do need to be boiled for a certain length of time, or soaked for a certain length of time to get rid of the toxin...
The toxic compound phytohaemagglutinin, a lectin, is present in many common bean varieties, but is especially concentrated in red kidney beans. White kidney beans contain about a third as much toxin as the red variety; broad beans (Vicia faba) contain 5 to 10% as much as red kidney beans.[6]
"Phytohaemagglutinin can be deactivated by boiling beans for ten minutes; the ten minutes at boiling point (100 °C (212 °F)) are sufficient to degrade the toxin, but not to cook the beans. For dry beans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also recommends an initial soak of at least 5 hours in water which should then be discarded.[6]"
I agree with Veronica. A crock pot doesn't reach s high enough temperature to cook dried beans in 4 hours. I doubt that you can cook dried beans in a crock pot at all.
Red beans take longer than four hours to cook in a crock pot, even if they've been soaked overnight.
I cook them in the crock pot all the time, and I let them go all day.
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Red beans take longer than four hours to cook in a crock pot, even if they've been soaked overnight.
I cook them in the crock pot all the time, and I let them go all day.
