Make Extra-Tender Beans With a Little Baking Soda
by A.A. Newton on Skillet, shared by A.A. Newton to L from Lifehacker on (#50EWK)

Ask a crowd of bean lovers to tell you the correct way to cook a pot of beans and you'll get a different answer from each person. But in the midst of healthy debate over the merits of soaking and when to add salt or acid, there's one universal truth everyone can get behind: when it comes to beans, clay pots reign"