Good news! No, they don’t. They’re softer than your average legume and cook fairly quickly. Even better news, dried legumes of any kind don’t need to be pre-soaked when using pressure cooking. Presoaking is meant to speed up the cooking time and for some, it aids in digestion, but the magic of the Instant Pot is that the pressure does the work for you and there’s no need for hours and hours of presoaking.