Can I eat this? Soaked legume edition

[Anonymous]

A few days I ago I set some dried chickpeas to soak with intent to pressure cook them the next day. But I did not cook them bc I ran out of steam (womp womp). They’ve been sitting in my fridge in water, covered, for days. I can’t remember how many days.

Can I still cook and eat these? Why/why not?

[Anonymous]

Try them and let us know how it works out. They are probably ok but I'd toss them.

[Anonymous]

First you rinse it very, very well. Then soak for 15 minutes with baking soda and water.

Rinse again. Microwave in a glass container - a tablespoon of chickpeas in 1/2 cup of salt water for 6 minutes. If it tastes and smells fine, pressure cook the rest and eat it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First you rinse it very, very well. Then soak for 15 minutes with baking soda and water.

Rinse again. Microwave in a glass container - a tablespoon of chickpeas in 1/2 cup of salt water for 6 minutes. If it tastes and smells fine, pressure cook the rest and eat it.

I will try this, TY!

[Anonymous]

In the fridge should be fine. Switch the water. It'll likely smell if it's bad. I had a friend do this on the counter after a couple days in hot Arizona with no AC. It smelled pretty bad when he discovered it four or five days later.