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There is a good reason for soaking beans for several hours, and changing the soak water a few times: It is supposed to remove a lot of the indigestable oligosaccharides that would otherwise make for toots! You can see it in the first soak water after a couple of hours.
So I'll keep on doing that, even if I could just dump them right into the pressure cooker.