Dried beans cooking lessons

You grow your beans 
We all know how this is done. If we don’t there’s a whole other thread to discuss it   .

you dry your beans 
I may need to start another thread in legumes department for this . I have questions. 

you store your beans 
Jars, other containers, bags? Airtight? Out of the light? 

You’re about to use them in a recipe. Now what do you do? Rehydrate them ? How ?

The only experience I’ve had with dried beans was a 1kg bag of kidney beans. No matter what I did to them they were still like teeth braking bullets! I tried soaking them before cooking, cold water & hot. I tried different lengths of time. Anything from 1 hour to 24 hours. I tried pre cooking. Change timings and temperatures on this method as well.  Nothing worked. They ruined so many meals.  It kinda put me off dried beans. But thanks to Scarlets bean seeds in the circle and her wonderful photos and descriptions of all the different varieties and what you can do with them, I’m willing to give the dried beans another chance. 
Educate me please    .