Seed Cleaning Tool

From: Don Burns <burns at mobot.org> on 1997.08.23 at 07:20:15(1069) No intention here to break up the current discussion, but I had to let this loose before I forgot to do it entirely. One week ago tonight the spouse and I were in Raleigh, NC enjoyingsome coffee at a place that sell the stuff as well as teas and assorted goodies for cooking up the stuff. Browsing through the "tool" section I came upon a tea infuser. It was spherical with the sphere cut in half and a seal placed in each edge. The there is a spring loaded handle that one squeezes to make the thing open up. The seal at the edges is quite tight. +More The I recalled the recent discussion on seed cleaning and the comments on the difficulty of removing the gel-like covering on many seeds. Yup, you got it - Stick the seed in this thing, close it and blast it with watter and voila! the seeds are clean. I tried it tonight for the first time on some very stubborn seed and it works! So, if you can find an infuser like this one that seals tightly to keep the small seeds from leaking out, then buy it. It works great! Don Burns Plantation, FL USA Zone 10b

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