— Becky Fay

Okay, so I'm not set up to show you what that looks like here, but I can talk you through it. Okay, I'm gonna start off by saying that a lot of quinoa these days on the market is pre-riched, so it's not Always necessary to rinse it again. I'll leave that up to you though. Okay, the next thing that I'll mention is that Some of us out there have a very sensitive palette sometimes across the board. But sometimes when it comes to particular tastes and and even Aromas as far as our nose is concerned as well and one of the tastes that some people are particularly sensitive to is bitterness and those saponin compounds on the exterior of the quinoa grains are bitter and after or let me I should say for the store but items that are pre-renced. Sometimes people can still pick up bitterness in which case you want to go ahead and rinse that again if you would like to okay, but otherwise if your preference is simply to rinse quinoa or if you're buying quinoa that has not been pre-renced then consider rinsing it and you can do that by putting it in a bowl. And then just pour some some water into that bowl and and you can let it soak if you want to if you've got the time and you know, the timings very quite a bit. I never done, you know actual tests on what the minimum time requirement is, but you can certainly see some results after just a few minutes. Okay. I'm in terms of a little bit of frothiness that comes to the surface and then as you strain the quinoa you need to Simply use a strainer that has a mesh size that smaller than the grains. Okay, and I'm gonna take a bit of a tangent here and say that In the kitchen one of the most common sort of tool categories that we use is the strainer and if you end up doing a wide variety of cooking different styles of Cuisines and and you know, so on and so forth. I find that one of you know that maybe the tool category that you end up having many varieties of is the strainer sometimes it's it's the diameter of the strainer sometimes it's you know with a handle or without. Sometimes it's a drum Civ with a straight edge to it. And then the the straining screen on top of that. Sometimes it is the size of the mesh to suit the job and so in this case if you go online or if you run down to a nearby Kitchen tool supply store. You can look at these different strainers and choose one that's going to be very tight so that these small quinoa grains won't fall through. Okay. Now if you don't have a strainer, then you can use cheesecloth and I've even heard folks using a coffee press which has a pretty fine strainer okay to strain the water from your quinoa. So give that a try please and you're bound to find some method that's going to work for your situation. All right. Thank you.