Ideas to cook dry beans fast in halogen oven I am planning to cook beans in an halogen oven i recently acquired. Where i am in an  office, I have no gas cooking facilities and don't want to venture into electric cooking to weight on electricity bills. 

I was reading on various methods of fast cooking dried beans. but couldn't get any

What is are your experiences?  I thought of soaking dried beans, bake in the halogen oven before cooking. Earlier, i tried cooking with 250Degrees after over-night soaking which took a bit longer to cook.
The only way I can think of to cook beans faster is in a pressure cooker.