Spent 3 weekends trying to get dried beans soft and the answer was a $2 box of baking soda

Joel Harris · 2026-09-13T05:50:02.499068+00:00

Nobody told me tap water in Phoenix is too hard for beans to soften, so I tried soaking longer, salting early, and even a pressure cooker before my neighbor mentioned a pinch of baking soda in the pot, which fixed it in one try, and now I'm wondering what other cheap kitchen tricks I've been missing out on.

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