Hint: It has to do with farts.
I went to a restaurant with some friends over the weekend.
He said something along the lines of, “I’m so full!
Plus, beans don’t sit well with me.”
We kind of laughed it off, at first.
But then, of course, we all took out our phones and Googled it.
Turns out, she’s right!
There’s truth behind the baking-soda-in-your-beans technique.
Here are three reasons you should be sprinkling a little baking soda into the soaking water for your beans.
(Yes, you could cook beans in the same water they were soaked in.
That greatly weakens the pectin, causing the beans to soften much more rapidly.
(Yes, that’s a thing.)
It will reduce the volume of gas produced by the legumes, plus, they will cook quicker.
