[BiggKidd]

You will probably be as surprised to learn soaking and cooking them with a tablespoon of baking soda for each pound of dry beans will soften old beans up as I was. Just rinse them off and replace the water before adding your flavors so as not to change the taste of what you’re making. Of course if you’re making chili or something similar that has other strong flavors rinsing isn’t really needed in my opinion.