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Default Pressure cooker Beans and bacon

"daveyj" > wrote in
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> just joe wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 8 minutes??? I pressure cook beans for about 45 minutes
>> >> and sometimes they still need a few more minutes. But
>> >> then, I live at almost 7000' elevation so cooking times
>> >> are longer here.
>> >>
>> >> 8 minutes isn't going to do a thing for 'em...
>> >
>> > I do 20 minutes for well soaked beans.
>> > --

>>
>>
>> do you need teeth?
>> 8 minutes for well soaked reds and 6 for soaked little blacks
>>
>> otherwise they blow up and turn to mush. all of the reccies
>> in the instruction book and others are twice the time needed
>> for a good pot of beans.
>>
>> joe
>> petersburg (50' above sea level) alaska

>
> Now I'm confused.
> 8 minutes in a pressure cooker was my original thought, then
> someone said 45 minutes. Another said 20.
>
> I can't stand any food cooked into mush. I don't like exploded
> beans. I like to chew my food.
> Maybe I should disregard this thread.


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