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New to the idea of sprouted grains.

 
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I keep reading about incorporating sprouted grains into my family’s diet but the information seems so confusing! Does anyone have any sources on the process that they are using? I don’t have a mill but I do have a food processor and a vitamix, would either of those do the job?
 
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Here is a recipe that will answer your question:

soak the grain until you see the tiniest protrusion where the root will be coming out.  Length of time depends on temperature in the kitchen.

When the sprout is visible, then wet grind the grain.  I read that a champion juicer would do this well, using the peanut butter "plate" but it did not work at all.  It stopped the champion as I had never experienced before.  I use a cuisinart.  I think the vitamix would also do the job but I have not tried it.

Once the grain is "ground" it is still in chunks, but it's visible that the gluten has developed, then it needs to be fermented.

 

https://permies.com/t/66366/kitchen/vollkornbrot

Enjoy and let us know how it turns out!
 
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There's another thread on sprouted bread active that answers some of your questions, Lexie: https://permies.com/t/171797/kitchen/Sprouted-Bread .
It depends what you intend to do with the grain, but apparently for making bread with no flour, just the sprouted grain, the best thing to use is a hand mincer with the smallest hole plate it comes with fitted. It grinds the sprouted grain and produces dough! Or according to the video in the other thread, some juicers will work, too. Food processors chop the grain into little bits rather than turn them into dough, and most blenders, even good ones like a Vitamix, need the grain to be too wet to be able to blend it, resulting in a sloppy dough.
 
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