[dimes]

Is it training, or is it convenience? Personally, I don't like soaking beans 24 hours before cooking. In fact, any additional time is too much for me, as bad as that may be. A article in the NYT called The Tyranny of Convenience really crystalized this for me: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyranny-co...

[mitchbob]

Home-cooked beans can taste a lot better, and they spare you the estrogen-mimicking chemicals in can linings. A pressure cooker makes quick work of them. We make a batch and freeze them in pint containers, ready to thaw when we need them.

[conception]

Not trying to address your point at all, but an instapot is amazing for beans. No presoak needed.

[watwut]

They are not replacement for each other. Canned ones taste completely differently. You cook different foods from them.

Less important point is that you dont need to soak them 24 hours in advance, that is excessively long. A day before is primary convenient time when to do it for people who soak them for that long.

[twic]

It's enough to soak overnight, rather than for 24 hours.

This lines up well with cooking the beans in a slow cooker, which in turn lines up well with working from home. Some evenings, i think "oh, i'll cook beans tomorrow", and put a pan on to soak (one minute's work). The next morning, i boil them for ten minutes to kill the PHA (if necessary for that variety), then load them in the slow cooker with whatever other ingredients seem good, and set it to run for eight hours.

It only involves a little bit of planning ahead, and very little actual work. In fact, it's nice to be able to front-load the work, so i do it in the morning when i'm still coming up to speed, rather than in the evening when i'm tired.

[htnsao]

Good point. Convenience rules.

But I was certainly trained to buy peanut butter instead of putting peanuts in a blender.

When the only source of food are giant super markets 95% filled with aisles of packaged processed products (be they generic or otherwise) then yes people are trained from birth to buy them.

[raverbashing]

The pre-soaking is supposed to help with digestability (I can't find the exact name of the substance it removes) a pressure cooker of course cooks it faster but it is not very convenient (also you can cook them without a pressure cooker - pre-soaking helps with this as well)

But yeah canned beans are easier. There are also some vacuum packed ones

"Canned doesn't taste as good" you still have to season them

[raverbashing]

(Since I can't edit anymore: it removes phytic acid) https://www.webmd.com/diet/foods-high-in-phytic-acid

[lacker]

"Convenience" is such a funny way to put it. As if the time spent making food is worthless, and saving hours of labor is only useful because it provides this abstract property of "convenience".