How do you cook kidney beans?

Answer 1

1. Cook in pressure cooker for approx. half an hour
2. Cook on the stove top - add 3 cups of broth/water, the liquid should be about two inches on top of the beans. Boil the beans, and bring it simmer further on; make sure you don't cover all of the pot.
3. Hint: Remember to pre-soak the beans before cooking them!

Answer 2

kidney beans are poisonous when picked and must be soaked in sodium chloride solution (salt water) for a certain amount of time. You must cook them to sweat any absorbed salt out

More detail:

Dried kidney beans, especially the white and red varieties, are poisonous before cooking! They must be boiled for 10 minutes to rid them of their poison, the toxin PHA which coagulates blood.PHA or phytohemagglutinin is a toxin, it can cause poisoning in monogastric (single stomached) animals, such as humans, through the consumption of raw or improperly prepared kidney beans. Measured in haemagglutinating units (hau), a raw red kidney bean can contain up to 70,000 hau. This can be reduced to safe levels by correct cooking (boiling for at least ten minutes at 100°C, 212°F). However, cooking at 80°C, such as in a slow cooker, can raise the available hau up to fivefold.Poisoning can be induced from as few as five raw beans, symptoms occur within three hours, beginning with nausea then vomiting, which can be severe and sustained (profuse), followed by diarrhea. Recovery occurs within four or five hours of onset, usually without the need for any medical intervention.Read more: phytohaemagglutinin

Answer 3

1. kidney beans straight from the plant should be cooked for 40 min at 72 degrees Celsius
2. kidney beans from the tin should be cooked for 20 mins at 72 degrees Celsius

Answer 4

Kidney beans are called so because of the shape. The kidneys in our body are that shape