[bch]

I'm a 4h salted water soaker now - i think i saw the 4h (versus 8h/overnight) on a bean forum that may have been run as net news originally. I find 4h to be a reasonably small amount of time to work with, and I use a pressure cooker to do the cooking; I can have the idea to have beans for dinner as late as ~noon, and that's workable.