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    Question Cooking soya beans: failed at step one! Advice?

    I've never cooked soya beans before. But I've quite enjoyed those little packs of dry roasted soya beans, so I thought I'd do something similar (well, it worked for pumpkin seeds...)

    So I bought some beans and started to follow the instructions... "Step 1: Soak the beans for 24 hours."

    However, I forgot about them and they've had at about 72 hours! (I forget exactly when I put the on to soak so it could be even longer). They look fine but they smell awful! Is that normal, or do you think they've gone off?

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    Default Re: Cooking soya beans: failed at step 1! Advice?

    I would just rinse them thoroughly, and carry on, see what happens.
    Have oversoaked beans myself before several times

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    Default Re: Cooking soya beans: failed at step 1! Advice?

    I've always just picked them, taken them out the shell and boiled for a few mins!


    Edit: Ah, you talking about dried beans! lol
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    Default Re: Cooking soya beans: failed at step 1! Advice?

    Thanks sugarmouse.

    What do I do after that? I seem to have recycled the instructions!

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    Rinse all the manky water off
    Put in apan with loads of water
    bring to boil
    simmer until soft.
    Taste them

    If theyre foul, call it failure and get thee to a health food shop for what you want.
    If they aint...then season them, squirt with oil and roast...if that waht you were going to do in first place?
    Alternatively juggle with them or use them to make ppl fall over in shopping centres.

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    Default Re: Cooking soya beans: failed at step 1! Advice?

    Thanks! I'll let you know how I get on...

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    Default Re: Cooking soya beans: failed at step 1! Advice?

    they may well have fermented, by the way.

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    Default Re: Cooking soya beans: failed at step 1! Advice?

    They had to go. The smell was too bad. Even after umpteen rinses...

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    Default Re: Cooking soya beans: failed at step 1! Advice?

    I make my own soya milk and tofu and find that if the soya beans are left in soak too long (and I've never left them as long as 72 hours!) .. .then they can smell and they also taste bad. I've made batches of milk before because I can't bear waste, but had to throw it away as it tasted bad, and didn't smell too great.

    If I left anything in soak for 72 hours then I'd bin 'em straight away.

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    I'm not sure what the maximum soak time is, but I left soy beans soaking in the fridge for two days (48 hours, give or take) and they turned out ok, but I think that 72 is really pushing it, and if the start to smell overripe, then I'd agree it's time to chuck 'em.
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    Default Re: Cooking soya beans: failed at step 1! Advice?

    in the fridge they'd be okay - they'd take ages to ferment in there.

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    Default Re: Cooking soya beans: failed at step 1! Advice?

    I'll have to try again. And set an alarm on my phone this time!

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    Default Re: Cooking soya beans: failed at step 1! Advice?

    Quote bryzee86 View Post
    in the fridge they'd be okay - they'd take ages to ferment in there.
    That's what I'd think, but I wasn't sure. I didn't see if Robb's manky beans were in the fridge or not (I've just always put them in the fridge to soak, chickpeas too). Heh, I don't know how long they'd last in the fridge, but I'm not fixing to find out. Probably past the 72 hour mark, I'd guess.
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    Default Re: Cooking soya beans: failed at step one! Advice?

    No, they weren't in the fridge. That didn't even occur to me...

    I am a good cook really!! I just don't normally do things that require preparing in advance...

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    Default Re: Cooking soya beans: failed at step one! Advice?

    Well, since soaking isn't exactly cooking, you can still keep status as good cook even with soy stank incidents
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    Default Re: Cooking soya beans: failed at step one! Advice?

    Ha ha. Yes, I'm a good cook not an old soak.

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    Default Re: Cooking soya beans: failed at step one! Advice?

    Though, if you can't get soaked, you can always get baked
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