Submitted by Mylissa20 on May 2, 2011 - 3:23pm

Buckwheat berries with hull on them?

I just bought a bag of buckwheat berries from the bosch store today, and when I got home, I realized they still have the papery "hull" on them.  Can I grind them as-is to use for buckwheat flour? I can't imagine removing the hulls one by one, that would take forever!

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Nope

Nope: but you can plant them in a garden, makes a great covercrop adds nitrogen to soil

Mylissa20,  Maybe you just

Mylissa20,

 Maybe you just can discard the ones with shells and grind the rest? 

My brother used them just like that and made flour

but if you want them dehulled, try rolling them in a cloth to take the hulls off, and then winnowing them (tossing them in front of a fan to remove the bran or the hulls) do this outside or inside a large cardboard box to keep the hulls from inundating everything in the house.

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