JustAPrepper
09-29-2011, 05:50 PM
I found this recently...
There is a toxicity with them and they need to be boiled for at least 10 minutes. If you're cooking dry beans the traditional way or pressure canning them they will be fine but this was good information for me because often I'll just throw a pound of beans in the Crockpot and cook them that way but a Crockpot doesn't get hot enough to destroy the toxin. I've marked all our buckets noting the boiling time so if I get hit by a bus tomorrow someone will know how to cook them properly. The symptoms may not be life threatening but any kind of illness during a SHTF situation could be bad. Scroll down to the Toxicity section to read further...
Phaseolus vulgaris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaseolus_vulgaris#Red_or_kidney_beans)
There is a toxicity with them and they need to be boiled for at least 10 minutes. If you're cooking dry beans the traditional way or pressure canning them they will be fine but this was good information for me because often I'll just throw a pound of beans in the Crockpot and cook them that way but a Crockpot doesn't get hot enough to destroy the toxin. I've marked all our buckets noting the boiling time so if I get hit by a bus tomorrow someone will know how to cook them properly. The symptoms may not be life threatening but any kind of illness during a SHTF situation could be bad. Scroll down to the Toxicity section to read further...
Phaseolus vulgaris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaseolus_vulgaris#Red_or_kidney_beans)