DON'T SALT THE BEANS

We all know that when you want to cook up a big kettle of pino beans you look them, wash them and let them sit in water overnight to reduce the cooking time.
One of my friends wanted to cook a kettle of beans on a gas stove. Now to me gas cooks way quicker than electric. She fixed her beans and cooked them and cooked them and it went around 5 hours and they still was not done. Now this in on a gas stove.
What could have happened, we all know a bean is a bean. We all have our fav. brands of pinto beans. I like Walmart brand or the one that Walmrt sells in the spring that is loose in a big barrel. To me they are the best.
Well, I just wonder if she added her salt while the beans were cooking. That sure sounds like she did.
 You can cook a pot of beans for 10 hours and they still will not get done if you add salt at the beginning of the cooking. Me, I learned the hard way so that is why I know that beans will not cook up done if you add your salt then.
We also put our seasoning in our beans at the beginning of the cook time. Just this past year, I learned from my daughter that you put your sliced salt bacon in around 30 minutes before the beans are done. Now me, I have been cooking for around 35 years. Her, around 10 years. lol. So ole mom can learn something new to. lol.
Add your salt at the end of the cooking. Stir it in good and retaste. Sometimes if it is not stirred good you will add more salt and get them to salty. I also put a stick of Blue Bonnet in mine at the beganing of cooking and just a little oil. Oh, yeah, I know fattening along with the salt bacon.
If you use the chunk of salt bacon then I guess you could put it in at the beginning  as always.
So back to the cooking time. I just wonder if her gas stove is like my sons new one that he got. It has one burner that will not get hot. Oh, he got mad and said it was not working right and called out the service dept. because he had just bought the stove. What did they tell him, The back burner is for simmering and will not get hot as the other five burners, and the one in the middle, is for boiling and gets hotter then all the burners. Maybe we all are not to old to learn new things.
 By the way if you have a self cleaning double ovens, do not stop them in the cleaning cycle as it will mess it up big time also. Guess who done that,,,,, him also. lol. He has been cooking for 20 years. He is one great cook and should have went on and made a chef. But he will not put none of his recipes on here hardly at all. They are most from all our other kin and friends. When you have a big family like ours, someone is always fixing something new and this blog is mosly just to keep them so we wont lose them .  When msn shut down our website we had to create another one to keep up with all of them. Anyone is more than welcome to view them or add them to their blogs. We are just southern country cooks that reallllly love to cook.....