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I don't have a lot of experience using dried beans, but I've been working on a spin-off of Wampus' peach bourbon beans. I soaked a couple pounds of dry northern beans overnight, then made the beans and cooked them. After almost five hours, they still weren't completely tender. Typically, shouldn't they only take about 2 hours after they've been soaked? The only thing I'm wondering is, since I'm cooking them in a thick mixture of BBQ sauce, brown sugar, etc, maybe they're not absorbing as much moisture as they would in water. Maybe I should boil them in water after the soak before the final cook with the other ingredients. Anybody else experience this or have a solution?