What does soda give when cooking beans
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Cooking beans and any legumes is a rather troublesome and long process. However, there is one trick that helps to significantly speed up the boiling of beans and reduce cooking duration... Add some ordinary baking soda to the liquid in which the beans are cooked. Half a teaspoon of baking soda will be enough, no more, since an excessive amount of it can completely ruin the dish, giving it a salty soapy taste.
You can also add a pinch of baking soda to the water in which the beans will be soaked before cooking, but then they are no longer put during cooking. This method has its drawbacks:
- unpleasant aftertaste of the future dish due to soda;
- soda leaches B vitamins from legumes.
Beans that have been soaked in a soda solution must be rinsed very well with water before cooking to completely remove traces of soda.
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