Heirloom Bean Cooking Times

Our Testing Methods

All times are for unsoaked beans. Our beans are so fresh you can skip the soak! Each bean variety is cooked 3-4 times with 2 cups of water per cup of beans, 1 teaspoon of salt and a 4" strip of kombu. NEVER add acid to beans until they are fully soft. We include a harvest date on every package. If beans are more than one year from the harvest date add 5 minutes to the cooking time for each year past harvest. But seriously what are you saving those delicious beans for? Cook them!

Use these times as a starting point, however, your cooking times may vary depending on many factors including water temp, water hardness and the use of salt and kombu.

Read our full Bean Cooking Guide for tips on how to cook better beans.

Pressure Cooker Times

Pressure cooker times are all from dry.  We allow 15 minutes of natural pressure release after cooking. If you are going to set it and forget it, leaving the beans in the pressure cooker for 30 minutes or more, reduce the cooking time by 5 minutes.