Conversion chart for beans

Sonya W. (Q&A ID 12642)

Dear milk Street,

I absolutely love your recipes. But sometimes I find myself reaching for dry beans when you call for canned, or wishing that I could use canned when the recipe calls for dry. I end up googling the conversion and other questions but I’m never sure to trust it. (1 pound dry equals 4 15 ounce canned I guess.) I do trust you implicitly though. Do you have a chart (I couldn’t find one on the website) or could you please make one that includes:

Dried to canned bean conversion in cups and pounds.

How much salt to add to water to soak beans.

Which beans should have baking soda added to salted soaking water.

Whether these guidelines would apply to all beams or just certain ones.

I would love to print this chart and tape it inside my kitchen cabinet! Thanks very much.

Lynn C. (Q&A ID 662)

Hi Sonya -

We did run a conversion chart in our Kitchen Counts feature in the September-October 2019 issue. Here is a link - https://www.177milkstreet.com/2019/08/bean-counting-dried-vs-canned.

Best,

The Milk Street Cooking Team