Next day of Beans

Here is day 2 of Bean soaking and cooking. You can tell your beans have soaked well when you can see lots of wonderful little bubbles all over the top of the soaking water. The more bubbles the better! Here is what it should look like:

The bubbles show that the soak has released the gas in the beans. The more bubbles in the water, the less gas out of you! Some people add a small amount of baking soda to the water as the beans soak to help release the gas. I have never needed to do this.

If you have trouble with the music from the beans (gas), give it a couple weeks. Because we eat a diet so low in fiber, our intestines do not have the enzymes needed to digest the high fiber in beans. The enzymes will build up as you begin to include this food into your diet and soon the gassiness should subside.

Here are my beans after soaking:

They have nearly tripled. Here I have started another batch of black beans so you can see the difference. Notice that the lid is not on tight. It is just sitting on top of the jar:

The black beans on the left have just been added and the white beans on the right have soaked overnight.

Now I will rinse the white beans:

As you can see, they have been rinsed and are still moist, but there is no water in the jar. Agin, the lid is not tight, I just sat it on the top of the jar. Now they will sit overnight and by tomorrow we should start seeing sprouts! Keep you fingers crossed....!

See you tomorrow!

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