Emergency Dinner Help Needed

[Pax]

Help!!

I am making chili in my crock pot. I followed the recipe exactly. Started with dried beans which soaked overnight. Now I am 7 hours into cooking in the crock pot and the beans are still crunchy.

What should I do? Dinner is in 2 hours. Is it hopeless? Is it time for take-out?

I not sure if you can boil the chili long enough to soften the beans without screwing of the taste of the rest of the ingredients but it might be worth a go...transfer it all to a stock pot and get a good low boil going, that might work.

Next time you do the overnight soak method, bring the bean to a boil first for 3-5 minutes then shut them off and leave them covered overnight, they'll cook up fine in a crock pot the next day.