Post G23-046: Winnowing seed and making mustard

Bottom line:  A weak little computer fan is just right for winnowing mustard seed.  Optionally, roll the seeds down a tray to separate out the last little bits of chaff.

After cleaning some mustard seed in that fashion, I ground it in a cheap spice/coffee grinder, then used a recipe that promised to produce something like French’s yellow mustard.

I achieved neither the color nor the consistency of French’s.  But I think it’s recognizably mustard.

I’ll need to wait a few days for the taste test.

At the very least, this went a lot better than last year.  A box fan is way too large, and way to strong, for winnowing tiny mustard seeds.

Details follow.  See also:

Post G23-043: Threshing mustard by combing it.

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G23-026 Winnowing, or, Rube Goldberg does agriculture.

 

On the plus side, I bet you didn’t expect a blog post about winnowing.

On the down side, this entire blog post is about winnowing.

Image above: Winnowing Grain, Eastman Johnson, 1879, via https://www.wikiart.org/

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