I saw some cheap beans on sale at the store yesterday so I got them.
as I was cooking them this afternoon, i notice that they were taking SO MUCH LONGER to cook than the regular black eyed beans i used to get. 
i gave up after 4 hours and put the pepper because i needed to go out. now I regret it because the beans isn't fully cooked yet but it will burn if i keep cooking it.
Nairalanders, is there away to salvage this beans? I mean is there a way to cook them without getting it burnt?
I mean it's eatable but it is not very soft as i want it.   

yea i should have soaked it b4 hand but i've never worked with this kind of beans b4 and now i've learned my lesson to stick with black eyed peas.

plz help

take the beans out of the old pot and put in a new pot with new water and cook

thanks but I already put pepper, salt, oil and everything in it
we were able to eat it. it's not bad. just not as soft as i wanted.

Boil till they are soft before adding other ingredients or

Add potash and if it's still like that forget it and just grind them for moi-moi

yea i added other ingredients out of frustration since i've been cooking for 4 hrs+
they are pretty good now actually. I just cooked it again this morning on really low heat for about 30 min and stirred every 10 min or so. now it's pretty soft.

thanks for the potash idea. i'll use that next time when i face a similar problem.

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It seems beans is ur favourite. Is it?

well i like beans ok. i like other foods too.

are u a cook? seems only guys answered this topic. what a surprise

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lol. i think it's called pinto beans or something like that. maybe they were expired beans

beanshead

That beans is the most stubborn beans i've ever seen on earth ! They are basically good for moi-moi !

here is what you should do next time
fill the pot of beans with water add your onion and maggi and leave to cook
with in 1_2 hours its gonna be soft
there is no need soaking it

put in slow cooker and cook for upwards of 6 hours, or overnight.



i'm not sure i've ever cooked these though.

Just take it back to the seller, that na fake beans

next time, you don't buy that variety of beans. reminds me of a time back in '02 when my dad brought home a weird variety of beans. he had warned that it will take time to cook and we should at any point in time use the gas cooker, we should use electricity instead. i never expected we will take the whole day cooking darn beans!!! the whole thing took about 8 hours , we kept adding water, adding water, adding water. the thing no gree soft . we had to change pots twice along the line cos it got burnt. by the time it was cooked, we were so disgusted by it, it was only my dad that ate it. years later we realised that it was a tactic he used for us to stay indoors cos he was not used to leaving us alone for so long

dominique:
next time, you don't buy that variety of beans. reminds me of a time back in '02 when my dad brought home a weird variety of beans. he had warned that it will take time to cook and we should at any point in time use the gas cooker, we should use electricity instead. i never expected we will take the whole day cooking darn beans!!! the whole thing took about 8 hours , we kept adding water, adding water, adding water. the thing no gree soft . we had to change pots twice along the line cos it got burnt. by the time it was cooked, we were so disgusted by it, it was only my dad that ate it. years later we realised that it was a tactic he used for us to stay indoors cos he was not used to leaving us alone for so long