Even without a pressure cooker, you can cook beans faster in a microwave oven. However, you still need more than a half of hour if you want the beans to be sof

Even without a pressure cooker, you can cook beans faster in a microwave oven. However, you still need more than a half of hour if you want the beans to be soft, e.g. 45 minutes (after having soaked the beans for a half of day). I cook all my food in a microwave oven. Except for beans, I have never encountered any vegetable that would need more than 15 minutes. For lentils or chickpeas, around 12 minutes is normally sufficient.