Originally Posted by
quiltbuddy
I cook beans all the time and when that has happened to me the beans were old. Sometimes no amount of cooking is going to make them soft. They'll eventually be edible but will still be dry tasting. I have even thrown them in a pressure cooker and still could not get them soft!
I had this happen with split peas. I never realized that beans or legumes could get old, but they do. I cooked the split peas for two days before I gave up. Usually my split pea soup cooks in a couple of hours, not a couple of days. LOL.