Show Me The Buckwheat Grouts

[judasnotiscariot]

Does anyone know of a place in Bangkok where I can buy Buckwheat Grouts?

[Falcon01]

Had to look them up. Also interested in where to buy such products.

http://vegetarian.about.com/od/glossary/a/What-Is-Buckwheat.htm

[webworldly]

Hi judasnotiscarlot & Falcon01,

On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being most helpful......I can offer about a 6. The last time I was at the Villa Market on Sukhumvit Soi #11, they had "Buckwheat Flakes" (100% "raw" buckwheat, zero additives, zero preservatives), but alas, they were not actual grouts.

Since judasnotiscarlot is new to ThaiVisa, and perhaps to Thailand, here is a map to the location: https://plus.google.com/114177975148196336634/about?hl=en , and a link to VillaMarket's website: http://www.villamarket.com/ , where they list their other Bangkok locations.

In lieu of grouts, I hope that helps.

CHEERS!

D

[judasnotiscariot]

Thanks for your reply. But I'm a bit confused about the term - "Buckwheat Flakes" (100% "raw" buckwheat, zero additives, zero preservatives) - . I would have thought you meant cereal if it wasn't for the second part about 100% raw. Do you mean that they have been processed in some way? I googled the term "buckwheat flakes" but I could only find cereal.

[webworldly]

Hey judasnotiscarlot.....

If you're familiar with "rolled oats"....as best as I can tell the Buckwheat flakes are the Buckwheat equivalent. According to the following excerpt from Wikipedia, here's what oats go through up to and including the flaking process.

Processing

Oats processing is a relatively simple process:

[edit]Cleaning and sizing

Upon delivery to the milling plant, chaff, rocks, other grains, and other foreign material are removed from the oats.

[edit]Dehulling

Centripetal acceleration is used to separate the outer hull from the inner oat groat. Oats are fed by gravity onto the centre of a horizontally spinning stone, which accelerates them towards the outer ring. Groats and hulls are separated on impact with this ring. The lighter oat hulls are then aspirated away, while the denser oat groats are taken to the next step of processing. Oat hulls can be used as feed, processed further into insoluble oat fibre, or used as a biomass fuel.

[edit]Kilning

The unsized oat groats pass through a heat and moisture treatment to balance moisture, but mainly to stabilize them. Oat groats are high in fat (lipids), and once removed from their protective hulls and exposed to air, enzymatic (lipase) activity begins to break down the fat into free fatty acids, ultimately causing an off-flavour or rancidity. Oats begin to show signs of enzymatic rancidity within four days of being dehulled if not stabilized. This process is primarily done in food-grade plants, not in feed-grade plants. Groats are not considered raw if they have gone through this process; the heat disrupts the germ, and they cannot sprout.

[edit]Sizing of groats

Many whole oat groats break during the dehulling process, leaving the following types of groats to be sized and separated for further processing: whole oat groats, coarse steel cut groats, steel cut groats, and fine steel cut groats. Groats are sized and separated using screens, shakers and indent screens. After the whole oat groats are separated, the remaining broken groats get sized again into the three groups (coarse, regular, fine), and then stored. "Steel cut" refers to all sized or cut groats. When not enough broken groats are available to size for further processing, whole oat groats are sent to a cutting unit with steel blades that evenly cut groats into the three sizes above.

[edit]Final processing

Three methods are used to make the finished product:

[edit]Flaking

This process uses two large smooth or corrugated rolls spinning at the same speed in opposite directions at a controlled distance. Oat flakes, also known as rolled oats, have many different sizes, thicknesses and other characteristics depending on the size of oat groats passed between the rolls. Typically, the three sizes of steel cut oats are used to make instant, baby and quick rolled oats, whereas whole oat groats are used to make regular, medium and thick rolled oats. Oat flakes range in thickness from 0.36 mm to 1.00 mm.

I hope that helps you. Bon Apetit!

CHEERS!

D

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