On Thu, 03 May 2007 03:04:28 GMT, Mr Libido Incognito >
wrote:

>
>I can't cook beans to save my soul...Hello my name is Mr Libido Incognito
>and I can't cook dried beans. They are always tough...I've tried the
>overnight soaking...adding baking soda, adding salt, the boil twice
>method...no acids...standing on my left leg , drinking from the other side
>of the glass and many other folk lore methods, alas nothing helps.

Alan,

Maybe it isn't you, but the beans?

Where are you buying your beans...are you buying them in a place where
you can only get bagged beans? Or in a place where you can get beans
in bulk, and where there is a fast turnover?

I am thinking you are buying old beans..and sometimes they never get
soft, if that is the case.

Maybe try a different source for your beans?

Christine