Dehulling leafy greens sprouts

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Suzi,

I was also confused about your question about hulls, as it came in a

thread about wheatgrass. I'm a little OCD about changing the subject

line when the topic changes.

But I'm also obsessive about getting the hulls off my leafy greens. I

still grow my leafy greens in mason jars with screen lids. I put

three or four tablespoons of seed in a quart jar, rinse and drain

twice a day and wait until the jar is packed full. At this point

most of the hulls are still in there, only a few float out through

the graduated size screens. At this point, I pull the entire mass of

sprouts out, dump them into a large container under cold running

water and agitate them to break up the clumps and cause the hulls to

float to the top and all the dead (unsprouted) seeds drop to the

bottom. Then I skim the hulls, add more water, agitate more, skim

more, until most of the hulls are gone. I then put the sprouts into a

salad spinner, spin dry and put them into a loosely covered container

in my refrigerator. That's how I get rid of 90-95% of my hulls.

Bear in mind that some sprouts hang on to their hulls more

tenaciously than others. Whatever method you use to sprout you can

probably adapt to utilize my process for finishing them.

Lee