This seed sprouting business isn’t as quick and easy as we’d been led to believe. That picture shows our beansprouts after five days of growth. By six days they should have finished growing, but to my eyes they look nothing like a regular shop-bought beansprout.

We started them off in a jar of water, as the instructions dictated, and then transferred them to the seed sprouter the next day. Since then we’ve rinsed them through twice a day every day and kept them nice and warm in the kitchen.

Now admittedly, in terms of sheer bulk, they are a lot bigger than they were when we started them off – probably four times larger or so, but they’re nowhere near the healthy, long, slender beansprouts pictured on the front of the packet.

Either we are doing something wrong or the packet picture lies.

I’ll keep them going for another couple of days and see what happens. If there’s not much more growth perhaps we should just try eating them.

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