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 ...

There is a lot of bean cooking lore out there. Some of it good advice, and some of it bad. From the ongoing debate about soaking beans, to whether adding salt to beans before they're soft makes them ...

If you've been curious about the differences between canned beans and dried beans, you've come to the right place. There are advantages and disadvantages of both types of beans, so we're not able to ...

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 ...

You probably already know that there's a difference between dried beans and canned beans, but the prospect of cooking beans ...

A can of beans can be a quick and cheap way to make a meal more nutritious. Try some of these recipes with the canned beans ...

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 ...

Should dry beans be soaked, yes or no? I wondered this for the millionth time recently as I walked a young relative, via text message, through how to cook beans for the first time. None of the cooks I ...

Is it true that you shouldn't add salt to beans when they are cooking because it will make them tough? Do you need to soak beans before cooking? No and no. Adding salt to cooking beans will have no ...

Cookbook author Joe Yonan busts a common myth — and shares how to cook an excellent pot of beans any day of the week.