Vent: My cheap dried beans took forever to cook right

Tried making a big pot of pinto beans from a 2 dollar bag. Soaked them overnight like you're supposed to. Figured they'd be soft in a couple hours. Wrong. After 3 hours on the stove, they were still hard as rocks. My whole kitchen smelled like beans and I was getting mad. Turns out my old apartment stove runs really cool. Had to crank it to high and add a pinch of baking soda to the water. Total cook time was almost 5 hours. Wasted a whole afternoon. Anyone else have weird stove issues that mess up cheap ingredients?

3 comments

3 Comments

aaron_mitchell9d ago

My last apartment stove had two settings, barely warm and surface of the sun. I tried to simmer a stew once and it turned into a charred brick in twenty minutes. Ruined a perfectly good chuck roast. You learn to work around it, but it feels like the appliance is actively fighting you.

drew_mitchell9d ago

Honestly, @aaron_mitchell, I used to think that was just how stoves worked.

leo_black769d ago

Ever try using a heat diffuser on those burners, @aaron_mitchell? It saved my soups when I had a stove like that.