Why soak your nuts and seeds for the best granola ever By @wendythefoodscientist I've been doing this for a long time but rarely see it shared online, so here's my secret: soaking nuts and seeds before making granola. Why? 1. Cleaner flavor: Soaking rinsing leaches some bitter tannins (especially in walnuts/sunflower seed), so the nutty taste is smooth and clean. 2. Crispier bite: Soaking improves texture because the nuts and seeds swell, and after drying it is more brittle, more porous. The res

I tried germinating seeds in orbeez. Did it work?🌱🔮I wanted to see if I could germinate seeds in water beads, also known as orbeez!I tried using a super tiny lime basil seed but as you can see it escaped from the right hand corner.The water beads kept shrinking down as they sat out and I tried to keep adding water but the seeds weren’t sturdy in the little orbizzle pod.So we all know what I had to do, I had to get jumbo orbeez and try growing the seeds in the bigger water beads so they’re in t

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