How small are the holes ? I need to dry sprouted wheat berries to mill to flour will wheat berries fall through?
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I'd doubt it - it all depends if you let the wheatberries devolp into a plant, then you'd have a herbarium
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I am not sure how small they get when dehydrated so why not use the screen you can get. Fits right on top of the rack. I use it to make raisens.
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The holes are small enough to start with,about an eighth of an inch at the widest point, but you will want to move them to .the solid tray as the sprouts get drier and probably will shrink. You do have to monitor whatever you are dehydrating. Hope this helps.
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I doubt that they'd fall through since their sprouts would probably be so irregular in shape. The holes are quite small. Even if some fall through, they'll still dry.
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I would not recommend running raisins, chocolate chips or even oatmeal through the dies ... the holes are not big enough. I'm sure the press is strong enough, but it won't work.
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It depends on how big the fruit is when it is dried. I found that most of the stuff did fall through so I went to Hobby Lobby and purchased some canvas sheets used for stuff like yarn work. Cut them to fit the trays and worked beautifully.
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Other than very fine, I don't know how such sizes are rated. It does do a good job of separating the wheat husks from the flour. Put differently, I cannot push one of my wife's sewing pins all the way through it.
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I just tried it using dry quinoa (no water). Shaking it vigorously over a bowl, no grains slipped through. A few of the teeny tiny black husks did go though. (I have multi color quinoa.) It's possible that adding the force of water and swishing it all around, a few might slip through, but I doubt it.
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I use hulled sunflower seeds and have no problems. I would guess that your mix has items too large to go through the holes. It's designed for birdseed.
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Hello, I don't think grass seed would not fit through the holes. The holesare just big enough for groung herbs and spices.
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I feel that the majority of tomato seeds would go through this colander but not necessarily all. The size of the holes are just about seed size. Hope that helps -- we buy these colanders here for industrial use but looking at the colanders when used for cooking I feel the holes would accomadate a normal size seed.
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I'm not sure because you'd have to make the holes small enough to prevent the seeds from going through and the smallest hole openings are a little large. I use the smallest setting to make egg salad which by the way comes out great - perfect texture. The only time I've ever needed to separate seeds from the pulp, is when I open a pomegranate. I bought a pomegranate separator and it works great. I would never assume that it would work with this appliance that we are discussing now. I hope this helps. Check out the pomegranate seed gizmo. It's really very cool and not expensive at all. I put it at Amazon. I'm not sure because you'd have to make the holes small enough to prevent the seeds from going through and the smallest hole openings are a little large. I use the smallest setting to make egg salad which by the way comes out great - perfect texture. The only time I've ever needed to separate seeds from the pulp, is when I open a pomegranate. I bought a pomegranate separator and it works great. I would never assume that it would work with this appliance that we are discussing now. I hope this helps. Check out the pomegranate seed gizmo. It's really very cool and not expensive at all. I put... » Read More I'm not sure because you'd have to make the holes small enough to prevent the seeds from going through and the smallest hole openings are a little large. I use the smallest setting to make egg salad which by the way comes out great - perfect texture. The only time I've ever needed to separate seeds from the pulp, is when I open a pomegranate. I bought a pomegranate separator and it works great. I would never assume that it would work with this appliance that we are discussing now. I hope this helps. Check out the pomegranate seed gizmo. It's really very cool and not expensive at all. I put it at Amazon. « Show Less
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I grind the wheat berries and make bread with it. I haven't used it for biscuits, cakes, cookies or pie crusts, but I'm sure there are recipes for making these with wheat flour. I also use the wheat berries and sprout them for my salads.
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You can juice limes, lemons, clementines and all. The holes are not that big and I have never had a problem with seeds falling through.
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I would think they would be fine for sprouted grains. When I've used mine for small items, my only concern was that they would fly around during the drying process. Using two screens with the items sandwiched in between does the trick for that! You might have to adjust your drying time, though! Good luck!
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They are probably close to 1/2 inch opening on top, but they get narrower at the bottom. I think most blueberries would fit in there, but some would be too big.
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Probably but I think you will lose a lot of seed. The holes are large enough for sunflower, cracked corn, Milo,etc.
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I haven't tried dried blackberry vines, but they should be fine since the diameter is relatively small. If you put something in that is too fat, it basically chokes.
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SnowyJay, have you used this for herbs, nuts, seeds, dried dandelion root, etc? If not, what did you end up buying? I am interested in purchasing ONE mill - mostly used for nut, seed, dry roots.
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I'm sorry I took so long to answer you. I think several cups of flour will fit in at one time, although it probably works better if you just do one or two at a time. It sifts the flower finely and it goes into whatever bowl or container you have sitting underneath the sifter.