I harvested a bunch of Amaranth seeds and have a hard time getting rid of the chaff. I tried blowing with the seeds and all on a baking sheet but it doesn't seem to be working that well.
Of course, I can embrace the bran but was wondering if someone found a good solution.
On a small scale, I have dehulled amaranth by “scrunching” and rubbing the seeds to loosen hulls, then putting them in a deep bowl of water; seeds sink and hulls float. Of course, then you need to dry the seeds again if you plan to store them. But maybe you could store them whole, and just hulls them when you plan to cook them.
...a good and successful farmer has a spot behind the barn where lots of scrap pieces laying around, that are actually failed improvements to make the farm work easier... (True words)
I dont bother either. But i got mine from réal seeds un UK. Great club of enthusiast in Wales who have been working on selecting for easily hullable big seeds.
They're 3 colors as a bonus.
Mk Neal wrote:On a small scale, I have dehulled amaranth by “scrunching” and rubbing the seeds to loosen hulls, then putting them in a deep bowl of water; seeds sink and hulls float. Of course, then you need to dry the seeds again if you plan to store them. But maybe you could store them whole, and just hulls them when you plan to cook them.
That is a great idea. I could do that before cooking with them.
See Hes wrote:I built a vacuum de-hulling machine based on an YouTube Video.
...a good and successful farmer has a spot behind the barn where lots of scrap pieces laying around, that are actually failed improvements to make the farm work easier... (True words)
Thank you so much for this. Right now, we are in a temporary location but will try to build one when we are back home.
And why do people think that the piles of treasures to be used for great future projects are trash and an eyesore? 🤪
Hugo Morvan wrote:I dont bother either. But i got mine from réal seeds un UK. Great club of enthusiast in Wales who have been working on selecting for easily hullable big seeds.
They're 3 colors as a bonus.
That is interesting!
What I have right now are wild seeds. We are for a year on a work assignment on the Navajo Nation and the housing we were assigned to had tons of Amaranth growing. I fought the housekeeping people who want to chop anything that grows down and harvested all the stalks when they were ready. WE can find fun projects anywhere, right?
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