Cooking Dried Beans in the Crock Pot

After seeing A Year of Slow Cooking’s method for cooking dried beans, I knew I wanted to try it, and it was SO EASY! All you need is a crock pot and you can have cooked beans instead of forking over a small fortune for canned beans.

Here’s how:

1. Rinse your beans and pick out any shriveled/broken/gross beans.
2. Dump your beans in the crock pot and fill your crock pot with water. DON’T turn it on. Let your beans soak for 6-8 hours or overnight.
3. Dump out the soak water and rinse your beans.
4. Return beans to the crock pot and cover with water plus an additional 2-3 inches above the top of the beans.
5. Cook in the crock pot on low for 8 hours or until the beans are bite-tender.
6. Drain.
7. You’re done! Now you can use those beans in your favorite recipes or put them in freezer bags…1 2/3 cup is the equivalent of a can of beans.

Easy and cheap :).