Use your Crock-Pot to cook beans; then store in the freezer. This popular post from Kalyn’s Kitchen compares soaked and unsoaked beans cooked in the slow cooker and shares the results.
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Using the slow cooker to cook dried beans is one of those wonderful ideas I discovered through food blogging. I experimented with soaked and unsoaked beans, and this post on How to Cook Dried Beans in a Crock-Pot Slow Cooker from Kalyn’s Kitchen shares my results and step-by-step photos of everything you need to know to kick the canned bean habit!
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Great post Kalyn!!! This is something I have been meaning to do. Thanks!
Thanks, glad you like it! I really do like the cooked-from-scratch beans much better than canned ones and it saves money too.
I cut ham in one inch chunks and then when almost done I bake corn bread in a cast iron skillet and fry sliced potatoes to a golden brown fried in real butter, No one leaves my table untill their tummys are full
I too much prefer cooked-from-scratch beans over canned beans. Very very occasionally, we use canned beans and are always horrified by the liquid that they are in. We always rinse it away, making using canned beans even more costly.
I see that you do not add salt to your beans when you're cooking them. Nor do I. Or at least not until I want to arrest them from softening any more. Do the beans remain firm when cooked for such a lengthy period in the slow cooker?
Elizabeth, the beans are still firm, even after this long.
Kalyn, In India, we do not get canned beans (not yet I guess), we always pre-soak beans. The most commonly used ones were garbanzo and we pre-soak it about 6-8 hours (or overnight) and then pressure cook for use.
These days I measure dried beans (any and all variety) by 2/3 cups which would yield me cooked beans equal to 1 can. And after cooking I transfer to a ziploc and label it. So I don't reach out for can these days. Just my freezer where I have the beans I prepared at home without all the sodium and preservatives.
Krithi, love knowing that 2/3 cup dried beans = a can of beans, since so many recipes come with cans. I don't cook my own beans 100% of the time, but I'm working on it!