What does soda give when cooking beans
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Cooking beans and any legumes is a rather troublesome and long process. However, there is one trick that can significantly speed up the cooking of the beans and shorten the cooking time. Add some ordinary baking soda to the liquid in which the beans are cooked. Half a teaspoon of soda will be enough, no more, since an excessive amount of it can completely ruin the dish, giving it a salty soapy taste.
You can also add a pinch of soda to the water in which the beans will be soaked before cooking, but then they are no longer put during cooking. This method has its drawbacks:
- unpleasant aftertaste of the future dish due to soda;
- soda washes out B vitamins from legumes.
Beans that have been soaked in a soda solution must be rinsed very well with water before cooking to completely get rid of traces of soda.
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