Re: problem: buckwheat with hulls

[Guest guest]

Have you thought about returning it to the store? Ours has a great

relationship with their distributor and I've returned bags of grain

with bugs before with no problems at all. Unfortunately some of the

bugs stayed here.

>

> Hi everyone - I'm having a problem. I ordered a 25 lb. bag of

> buckwheat from my health food store, assuming it would be dehulled

> buckwheat. It turns out it's not.

>

> I remember finding instructions on the web on how to make a home

> dehuller, which was pretty much all the information I could find

on

> the subject. It involved putting a rubber sheet in a grain mill

and

> separating the components to allow the buckwheat groats to get

their

> hulls cracked without being entirely crushed. After reading and

> pondering the instructions for a while, I decided that would not

work,

> and I doubt the person who wrote those instructions had built the

> apparatus and had success with it. Even if it worked, there's the

> step of winnowing off the hulls, which may be unavoidable.

>

> I even tried my own experiment with a piece of silicone (a torn-up

> baking sheet), using a rolling pin to crush the hull and hopefully

> leave the buckwheat groat intact. This didn't work very well. It

> took a lot of labor to get a few hulls cracked, and half the time,

I

> ended up crushing the groat.

>

> Can anyone help me find a way to dehull my buckwheat without

buying

> some expensive industrial machine?

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Yeah, I would, except it's been an embarrassing period of time (months) since I

bought this.

>

> Have you thought about returning it to the store? Ours has a great