Blah, my beans keep over cooking

[Arduinna]

ever since I moved cross country my beans keep over cooking

I'm not sure if it's the elevation change, I've gone from 2000 ft to sea level. Or if it's that these beans are fresher, so they are cooking much much faster. Or if it's possibly the humidity change, I've gone from the dry desert to the humid South. Maybe a combination of these?

First batch of soaked kidney beans, I only did them for 10 minutes in the pressure cooker and they were mush, second batch unsoaked ( no time for that) I managed to made them tolerable but they were still kinda over cooked.

So when I decided to make bbq beans today I just cooked the unsoaked great northern beans on the stove in a regular pot. I didn't time it but these generally take hours to get cooked for me. Ugh, they maybe cooked for an hour at most and are mush.

I don't know what to do. I ended up just putting the second batch of dried beans in the sauce I'd already made and put the pot in the oven and added a little extra water for them to absorb. But this is so wierd. I've been cooking this recipe for over 20 years and never had this problem.

[mamadelbosque]

Thats bizzare. I can't imagein having non-soaked beans (or really, *ANY* beans!!) cook in an hour... thats just wierd. Though I know nothing about pressure cookers... I always just cook beans in the crockpot (sort, rinse, throw'm in there and check every couple hours...)

[maddymama]

I'm a crockpot to cook beans girl, too. Never tried it in a pressure cooker, but I've heard they do get mushy in those from time to time.
~maddymama

[Arduinna]

Any bean will get mushy if it's over cooked. As I posted in the OP the ones I cooked the other day were not cooked in the pressure cooker, just on the stove in a normal pot.