Comment on using regular agricultural barley for making malt
leds@feddit.dk 1 month agoDo you use any automatic sorting to get rid of the bed kernels? I’m wondering if industrial high speed image detection sorting machines is something you can DIY
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I used a compressed air blowgun, the venturi style, and some screens I use to clean grain for grading and measuring. It seemed with some practice I could get it to mostly blow the light, unfilled, and mildewed kernels out, and the ergot tended to gather at the bottom. But the black ones are easy enough to see and pick out. You can screen the rest out after malting because they won’t have a cotyledon and will fall through larger screens along with other ungerminated seeds.
leds@feddit.dk 1 month ago
I’d love a tabletob machine learning sorter, manually sort a bunch and tell it which are bad and which are good and then let it sort the rest.