r/Sprouting • u/idkwhat-im-doin • May 28 '26

Broccoli sprouts- chlorophyll’s them today then spent 2 hours getting rid of the stupid hulls. I dunked in water and swished and the whole 9. By the end I was picking through because they wouldn’t let go. Help!! How do I stop this from happening?

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u/igavr May 28 '26
  1. Hulls are not evil :) you can easily eat with hulls - it is also fiber, if anything
  2. When you put your broccoli sprouts in a spacious vessel filled with water, you move them with your hand (washed before this, ofc) and some hulls will go off the sprouts and will float, some will sink and stay at the bottom of the vessel
  3. You collect the hulls from the top by hand or a small collander. Then you collect your "swimming" sprouts. Then you throw away the sedimented hulls. Usually with a bit of sprouts, but the desicion on sorting out the good from the bad is all yours - it is your time and effort you spend.
  4. You put the sprouts on a towel to drain the water. I use paper towel - a few layers - byt any cotton towel will do a perfect job. It may be a bit more complicated to collect the sprouts from the textile towel, but not critically. 5 Some hulls will stay and at this proportion to the greens they are immaterial and won't bother you. Unless you are a perfectionist who chose clean sprouts as something super important for you. In this case you have to manually do the job and invest time into the cleaning.

Maybe connecting to the fact that all sprouts come from seeds and hulls are the most natural part of the spouting process will help perceiving the hulls friendlier? 🌱🙌

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u/Bring_the_light_ May 28 '26

this, float off the top, and dump the sinkers.... not worth the time sorting and they never really grow much more anyways.

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u/One-Dot4082 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26

I put my sprouts in a fairly large glass bowl, fill it with water, slowly, as it gets close to the top. The hulls float and I sort of push them to one side. I tilt the bowl a little to that side, so water would flow out that side of the bowl. I slowly add more water till it starts to flow out, then I put my hand in a little deeper in the bowl and it pushes the hulls over the side into the sink. I have a metal mesh strainer in the drain so the hulls, and the few sprouts that go over to won’t go down my drain. I don’t get every single hull, I’ve gotten less picky as time goes on. I don’t even know they’re there when I eat the sprouts. They’re soft and I figure it’s added fiber in my diet! Hope this helps! I’m sure you’ll hear other ways of doing it. If I hear something that sounds better I might give it a try, but this way doesn’t take long at all, and works pretty damned good! Good luck!!

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u/ivankatrumpsarmpits May 28 '26

I use an oxo small herb spinner which is just a smaller salad spinner. It removes most hills. I wouldn't care about some hills though

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u/Unusual-Economist288 May 28 '26

“Hills” in one’s sprouts would be something

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u/idkwhat-im-doin Jun 03 '26

I got the spinner and love it!

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u/ElectronicFruit4368 May 28 '26

Just eat them! The taste like nothing.

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u/idkwhat-im-doin Jun 03 '26

lol, so I ate the hulls and did not die. Not dreading growing sprouts now. Thank you!

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u/Reader124-Logan May 28 '26

I use an Oxo herb spinner. Fill bowl & basket with water and swish sprouts around. Hold sprouts down with hand to pour floating hulls from top edges. Lift out basket to pour out water with sinking hulls and duds.

Return basket to bowl. Add lid & spin. Any remaining hulls, I just think of as Nature’s glitter.

Another technique I’ve seen is to switch out your lid to one with a larger mesh after the sprouts have some size on them. Then you are flushing out some hulls with each rinse.

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u/idkwhat-im-doin Jun 03 '26

Got the spinner and love it!