Soaking dried beans isn’t always necessary, since it saves little cooking time and can even diminish flavor in some varieties like black beans. Instead of soaking, a quick five- to 10-minute boil ...

The answer might surprise you. Read through your favorite bean recipes—whether it's baked beans, pinto beans, black beans, or your family’s favorite recipe—and you will likely find differing opinions ...

You might have noticed that some of the longstanding disputes in cooking are dualities, one side pitched as a better choice against one other: unsalted or salted butter, for example, or seasoned cast ...

Before someone brings up the whole digestibility issue, the benefits of soaking beans to relieve that have pretty much been disproven. Most of the gastric distress (my, we’re finding a lot of ...

Grocery shoppers have been stocking up on non-perishable pantry items, as it looks like the coronavirus crisis could have us hunkering down at home for a while. One items a lot of home cooks don’t ...

You would think that deciding how to cook something as straightforward as a pot of dried beans would be easy. But it sure doesn’t appear so. To soak or not to soak? And for how long? Whether ‘tis ...