Cooking in the Apocalypse

Crock-Pots

So, you find yourself in the Apocalypse, with your 500 pounds of rice and pinto beans... and how do you plan on COOKING these? The hard way?

I have not yet tried to cook pinto beans myself yet, only read the "hard way" of soaking and cooking for like 20 freaking hours. No thanks.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003OAJGJO/

Keeping with the "Two is one, one is none" philosophy, I ended up buying two of these. Why two? Well, if SHTF happens, total economic/social collapse, supply chain collapse, or China stops making stuff, I figured a crock pot is going to be a daily use and heavily used item that may be difficult to replace if the primary fails/breaks.

Thinking through scenarios where we are eating rice and beans a lot in a survival situation, I wouldn't want to go from 1-2 hours to cook our group's meals to 20 hours.