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I eat salads for lunch, but just straight lettuce is kinda boring. So I add things to it: tomato, cucumber and grilled bell peppers. I also have a pot of home-pickled red onions in the fridge to add to it. To expand my repertoire, I thought it would be fun to add sprouts to that.

We had a little dish for that, but it was very inconvenient to use. A little search through webshops turned up a set of two glass bottles with caps with a sieve. It comes with a little dish on which they can be placed so that any water can fall out (on the dish) while keeping the seeds in.

The big problem with sprouting is that the sprouts can get mouldy if they stay too moist — but they do need water in order to sprout at all. Using these bottles, I can swish some water around and put ’em downward in order to let the excess water leak out.

You also need to let the sprouts dry out before putting them in a container in the fridge, for the same reason.

It works quite well, and I have established a routine for the watering. I ordered an assortment of sprouting seeds along with the set, and I’m slowly working my way through that.

Crossposted from my blog. Comment here or at the original post.