First thing first, I got the USDA Canning Book from Amazon. In this book, it has all of the tested and safe methods for canning. It does a great job at explaining how to process all the different types of food.
For beans, I followed the 12 hour soaking prior to processing. So I put my beans in a giant pot and covered with water before going to bed. The next day, after rinsing the beans thoroughly, I boiled them for 30 mins. The book recommends hot packing your jars; so that means, hot food goes into hot jars and adding hot water to the jars. I washed my jars in the dishwasher the night before, so I warmed them in a pot the next morning to keep them nice and warm for packing.
The Nesco can handle 4 quart jars at once or 5 wide mouth (6 regular mouth) pint sized jars. It is kind of like an instant pot, but made for canning and little more robust.
My favorite tools for canning so far that have helped me:
Good luck on your canning adventures! I am going to keep learning over here!
xoxo,
Chelle
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