I just wish the Inquisicoat weren ' t so omnipresent . Fucking coatquisition , man . <| sep |> What ' s the fond memory attached to this song ? <| sep |> Hopefully your jewelry is implant grade titanium and not something cheap like steel or silver . Agree with the sea salt and warm water though . Can even use a shot glass . <| sep |> You ' re catching down because your link is broken you forgot the r in gram <| sep |> ALright . I ' ll add yaEdit I ' m Jakkal BTW <| sep |> I ' ve experienced this , as well , but it isn ' t a problem with all of them . Some run completely silent . The one that I ran into this problem with was a refurb . I imagine it ' s much less common in new cards . <| sep |> 3 Qts seems awfully small to me . You don ' t really want to fill it more than 23 full , which would be 2 quarts , that ' s a small saucepan worth of food . I ' d probably go more for something in the 5 quart range . As far as I know , that ' s only with Kidney beans . You should be safe with pintos or even black beans . The prep for pretty much any beans is sort to look for rocks or bad beans and rinse . If you have the time , you can soak them overnight , but you don ' t have to . If you soak them , pour off the soaking water and then use fresh water to cook . I ' ve never cooked rice and beans together in the slow cooker . If your intention is to have this for leftovers , I ' d really consider making and storing the rice and the beans separately . I tend to cook up a huge batch of beans , then refrigerate one or two portions of leftovers and put the rest in ziplock bags in the freezer . I try to keep beans in the fridge for longer than a day or two . I ' ve kept beans in the freezer for up to 6 weeks . They could probably go longer than that , but I couldn ' t say for sure , because they tend to get eaten pretty quickly . Rice tends to dry out and get yucky in the fridge . You can freeze it and it ' ll be ok , but really rice is one of those things that ' s just better to make fresh when you need it . If you want to freeze it , try to freeze it while the rice is still warm and moist , once it cools and dries out the results aren ' t as good .