• Lentils don't have to be soaked beforehand.

• Blackeyed beans (cowpeas, niébé): one hour soaking is enough to solar cook them in the CooKit. This is what I learned from AFIMA (Associatrion des Femmes Ingénieurs du Mali) partners of KoZon in Mali. If you soak them longer they get blubby.

• Kidney beans and other dried pulses should be soaked overnight.

One important piece of advise: Don't put salt in when soaking as salt extracts water from the beans.

Under a blue sky all the pulses cooked in a CooKit are ready in 3 - 4 hours.

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• Some beans contain toxins that are only neutralized by boiling