Need pressure cooker advice NOW. Anyone on who knows how to cook with them?

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I'm trying out my pressure cooker for the first time today. I'm currently making dried pinto beans and ham hocks. All the recipes call for about 55 mins of high pressure, but I soaked mine overnight (closer to 24 hours) so I am assuming a shorter time. Any ideas on how long I should cook them? Thank you!

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Try looking at this chart -- http://missvickie.com/howto/beans/howtobeantypes.html
it is a chart for cooking *already soaked* beans in a pressure cooker.

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I pressure cook pinto beans often. I like to quick soak them - bring to boil then set aside for an hour. Pressure cook them with half a peeled onion, ham hock, about 6 C water and no salt. Bring to high pressure then turn them down to medium pressure for 15 minutes. While they cook I prepare a soffits with onion, garlic, red and green peppers, half a jalapeño, oregano, salt and pepper. Add this to cooked beans and boil the mixture for 15 minutes. I think they are perfect this way.

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There are a million ways to cook beans apparently. I do a presoak for several hours, and then pressure cook them for about 15 minutes to see how well they are cooking. I cooked pintos a couple of weeks ago, and I tested them after 15 minutes (timed from the beans coming to pressure) and then pressure cooked them for a few minutes more, to get them as done as I wanted. If you chill the cooked beans overnight they will be firmer than if you eat them shortly after cooking them. 

I hope you were happy with your pinto beans. I hope you enjoy using your new PC.

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I'd love to hear how your beans turned out. 

I recommend presoaking (with or without salt, I prefer no salt) the beans, draining and then cooking pinto beans between 4 and 6 minutes at pressure with a natural pressure release. I think that at 15 minutes they would be falling apart and too mushy for my liking.

You can always put them back on the heat but you can't make them less done. I guess that you could always turn them into Spicy Pinto Bean Dip if you needed to.

It's great to see so many more people pressure cooking these days. I have been teaching people how to do this for 15 years and maybe the time has finally come when more people will pressure cook regularly.

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Many good answers but none addressed whether the ham hock will be cooked in the time the beans cook... if it was there I missed it.

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I cannot find a recipe that says what pressure setting to use for a specific recipe! All the recipes say is, high pressure, or build to pressure. What pressure??? I've been trying to cook ham and beans and have had to begin the process 3 times now.

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I just got an 8 qt Power Cooker. The owners manual is of NO use. Default cook time is 30 min. I can not decrease or increase time. It always goes back to default time. Can anyone help me?

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I love adding cooked beans to soups and chilli of course but I found cooking them at suggested timing makes them too mushy when added to soup and chilli where they are cooked more. So with most beans I soak overnight, the cook at high pressure for no more than 10 minutes, quick release and when they cool, I package 2 cups in zip lock bags and freeze. I have about 4 variety of beans in freezer right now.

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Hello,

I've been planning to get an Instant Pot IP-DUO60 7-in-1 Pressure Cooker. Does anyone have any experience with this machine? Is it worth the money? 
Thanks.
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