Anyone use Instant Pot to "soak" beans?

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colleenmomof2

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Last night I tried soaking dry 16 bean soup by bringing 8 cups water to boil in IP then Manual High for 2 minutes. Will be making soup on stove - too much for 6qt but was very happy to potentially get this step out of the way while I made dinner.

Colleen

 
I buy beans from Rancho Gordo and they never need soaking. Not sure about the 16 bean soup mixes

though.

 
My Instant Pot Borracho pintos came out wonderful

Enough for multiple meals so I froze most of them. Looking forward to mashing some for refried beans and adding some to chicken chili. Colleen

 
I didn't want to cook veggies so long or soak overnight

Working on developing a balance between overcooking everything else and undercooking the beans. Lots of IP recipes for individual dry bean recipes and not so much for mixed beans.

The Borracho pintos were more al dente than I would have liked but some of the beans were perfectly cooked. And the Instant Pot is so easy! Colleen

 
You are going to cook them on the stovetop just as you would in the PC.

Just for a longer (3-4X) time.

I don't know why this would be too much for the Instant Pot?

And of course, beans do not "need" to be pre-soaked--it just will take longer to cook them

 
I have made the bean soup mix before. I use this recipe, add kielbasa. Always a hit, and has not

failed. No soaking

Wait, I can't find the recipe! The one I initially linked had soaking! I'll find it.... I just need to head out for a bit.

Recipe does exist, no soaking and the soup package! Easy peasy!

 
When I use the bean mix I just add celery, onion, tomatoes, cabbage if I have it,

good chicken broth, a ham bone if I have it, or smoked sausage if I don't. I use thyme, a little basil, a little oregano for herbs. It's a delicous soup.
I even made a mix one Christmas to give as gifts--THAT was a labor of love, and only done once!!

 
Charley, I made "my own" bean mix for gifts, too,

very many years ago when bulk food stores were around smileys/wink.gif

This batch of soup turned out amazing. Maybe due to pressure-cook-soaking beans but I believe because of perfectly salted and cured Costco Ham leftovers! I usually dump in a bag of frozen Ore Ida Southern Hash Browns but this time added pressure cooked larger-than-hash-brown-cubes sized potato chunks for the last 30 minutes. Wow, wow, wow!

Thanks for sharing your recipe and method! Colleen

 
With questionable freshness and variety of the dry bean mix

I really believe that soaking is the way to go and plan to do that next time I make the soup. Only the lentils broke down - I could have added more, later. And plan to pressure pre-cook potato chunks instead of adding frozen hash browns. Still on the stovetop for around 3 hours with too many ingredients to use 6 quart Instant Pot. Colleen

 
Colleen! Which Costco ham do you buy? The stores here carry a smallish

Bo else’s ham as well as spiral sliced.

 
Kirkland Spiral Sliced

With a big ham for the two of us, we end up with enough slices to freeze some extra for Cubanos and enough ham chunks, bone and fatty pieces for 2 batches of bean soup. This was a really tasty ham smileys/wink.gif Colleen

 
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