Frontier Natural Products Co-op 8505 Sproutamo Easy Sprout Sprouter - Kitchen Gadgets

Easy Sprout Sprouter I've sprouted for 40 years (starting with my grandmother) with varying degrees of success. The single tray systems did all right but sometimes I'd have a problem with the seeds/sprouts souring. It's been a while since I tried using those; maybe I was not diligent enough with rinsing. I'll try them again. I used the Victorio 3-tray sprouting system Victorio Crop Sprouter ; I love the concept and really really wanted it to work well. But I had to keep unclogging the drains when using small seed crops and there definitely WAS a problem with the seeds souring and having to be thrown out even though I followed the instructions to the letter (and then even tried rinsing more). Did the mason jar, sprouting pads, etc. Then I saw this product & after reading all the reviews thought I'd give it a go; the price is certainly right especially with the cost of sprouts at the supermarket! And I couldn't be more thrilled---it's so EASY (like the name suggests), NO souring (just rinse every 12 hours in the perforated cup), & the way it's set up, it gets the right amount of air to grow (and not sour), and for example, 2 tablespoons of alfalfa seeds yields a half pound of fabulous crispy sprouts. The included instructions were a bit lacking although the instructions to drain the sprouts by putting the container in an old stocking and swinging it around 15 times was FABULOUS and one I really recommend. As for detailed instructions I liked the videos at sproutpeople.org which I happened to come across after buying this sprouter here on Amazon. They offer lots of help and good advice on all the sprouters, too. THE BOTTOM LINE....I'm going to order 3 more Easy Sprout Sprouters because I eat all my sprouts up before new ones are ready! UPDATE: For the ones that have "mold" or "souring" issues I think it's because of incomplete/unclear and incorrect instructions provided with the sprouter. The following example is for alfalfa seeds....tips may need to be adjusted slightly for other seed types, and this sprouter does not do "gelatinous seed" sprouts like arugula and cress). Use basic instructions included with your sprouter, but do the following: 1. Soak seeds 12 hours in COOL (not cold) water (do not use WARM, even though that's what the EZSprout instructions say)! At the end of 12 hour soak, drain and rinse with more cool water. Final drain by spinning (described above), because excess retained moisture also causes molding and souring. Put drain cup in "raised" position to get necessary air flow. Use vented dome lid. 2. 12 hours later, rinse well in COOL water. Be sure the water is getting through the entire mass including the center. Final drain by spinning. 3. 12 hours later, dump the sprouts from the small cup with the drainage holes out into the large cup and fill it 3/4 with COOL water almost to top and gently break up the mass with a fork or your (washed) fingers. You want to keep the seeds "fluffed" because sprouting seeds CREATE HEAT and they need to be cooled down when growing. Dump seeds back in drainage cup. Final drain by spinning. 4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 until sprouts are ready to be eaten. I HIGHLY recommend you see the video at sproutpeople.org, especially if you have had any problems. You may likely end up buying more EZ Sprout Sprouters like I am, because they really do work the best.

This is my third Easy Sprouter, and all are in use on my counter constantly. Easy Sprouter is THE easiest to use and clean of any sprouter I've ever used, and I've used at least 6 others. Just soak seeds, beans or grain, then rinse & drain. Rinse & drain thoroughly twice a day till done. I've had failures with other sprouters, even following directions perfectly. The only 'crop' failures I've had with ES were totally my fault, like forgetting to rinse & drain for several days (tho it's forgiving enough I've been able to save a few of those). My Easy Sprouters also take up the least room for the most sprouts. One of them is four years old and still works great. I use them for leafy sprouts, and to hull, about the 3rd day dump them in a big bowl, pour cold water in and swish vigorously but gently to loosen and remove the hulls, then grab a handful of sprouts, rotate your handful quickly in the center of the bowl to clear hulls away, and pull out fast, putting them into the inner sprouting cup. Do that with the rest and you've quickly & easily removed most of the hulls. I sprout almost all beans I'll be cooking, or making into hummus, as it increases nutrition drastically, and takes the place of soaking. I also sprout then freeze sprouted beans in freezer bags, so I can make a bean dish, depending on bean type & recipe, in 30 min to a couple hours cooking/total time. Easy Sprouter works great for sprouting grain, I like to add sprouted white wheat, millet, brown rice, amaranth, quinoa, barley... singly or combinations, to salads, smoothies, breakfast cereals raw or cooked, soups and stews. We also tend to just munch sprouted grains as is, they're sweet, tasty & chewy. You can also sprout mixed grains & beans, we like a mix of rice and 3 types of beans for a soup/stew (I often start the beans, then soak & add grains a day later). I also sprout Mung beans a little longer than suggested to get a long root and shoot, tho I'd need to use heavy weight to try for the heavy 'bean sprout' root & stem. Cleaning is easy, just like washing a couple large tumblers, I always hand wash them. Several of the other sprouters I've had, I needed to cut, scrub and pick off roots from screens, and scrub awkward areas, taking a long time to clean them thoroughly. Need I say I recommend Easy Sprouter highly? I just wish I could buy the small seed screens separately, I've lost one.

I honestly am not sure what the magic is about this that gives me such amazing sprouts, but I have my suspicion. I was using large glass mason jars with decent success before this, but purchased this because I'm thinking of traveling and wanted a travel sprouter ... I came across their Youtube videos which helped me a lot to understand the importance of the circular or centrifugal motion action when rinsing (I hadn't heard that before) and also draining really well. One thing I do different is I rinse only once a day because once I did that by accident and I liked the results. (They grow just as well this way if not better, for me.) I think this sprouter gives me such strong and vibrant sprouts because of I am always rinsing from the tap (the pressure of the water seems to benefit the sprouts), and then swirling and spinning the sprouts several times per rinse (apparently they like this action, too), then draining very well (feeling the bottom to make sure no more water comes out). The combo of these actions is a winner...the sprouts grow fast and sturdy, with little waste, and with less effort than the mason jar. I also like the size of this jar, compared to the larger mason jars. Everyone says that you should spread out the seeds so they are not piled on one another, but with this system, that does not hinder their growth, I think because of the previous reasons. I highly recommend this system to anyone who wants a foolproof sprouting system! I've tried mason jars, stacking trays and more....I can say for sure this is by far the easiest, best, most foolproof, least wasteful.

Overall I find that this sprouter works quite well for me. Here is how it works: The sprouter comes with a base container with no holes, a container that goes inside this base container with slits on the bottom, a small seed insert that has smaller slits that can be snapped inside the inner container, a special domed lid for use while sprouting, and two lids (one with holes and one with no holes). These lids are for if you want to store your sprouts in the same container you sprouted them in. If you are storing your sprouts slightly moist (which you really shouldn't do) then I would use the lid with the holes so you don't create an overly moist environment. I have stored sprouts in a ziploc bag and then realized they were too wet. I then left the bag open in the fridge and it helped to dry them out a bit. If you let your sprouts sit for 12 hrs after your last rinse, you shouldn't have much problem at all. The sprouts should be mostly dry. Basically, you put the seeds in the inner container (after deciding whether to use the small seed insert first, or not). Then you rinse them. The rinsing process is much easier than using a mason jar since the water flows through the bottom as you shoot the water from the top of the container. I can really blast the seeds with water to get them clean and do it using less water than the mason jar method. Even the small seed insert allows water to flow through really fast. Then you soak your seeds for the required amount of time (go to sproutpeople.org for more specific info on this and video how-tos). Put the inner container into the base container and fill with water to soak. Then when I want to drain the water I simply pick the container up out of the base container and let the water flow out the bottom. Follow the tap swirl method the sproutpeople advocate to get out as much water as possible and then let it sit for the required amount of time. After emptying out the water from the base container, put the container with the sprouts in it into the base container in an elevated position so that there is drainage space at the bottom. Then a special domed lid will sit on top. The domed lid only rests on the top, it does not snap in. I would imagine that is probably for the best since, if your sprouts grow rapidly, you don't want them to be squished. Then you will rinse/drain every so many hours for your specific type of sprouts. I find that I get great results using this sprouter. The only thing I really don't like is there is very little lip on the top of the inner container, so that when I tap and swirl to remove the water I have to make sure to grip really well. I lost a whole container of sprouts on the floor because I wasn't paying enough attention while swirling the thing. Thus, a deduction of one star. Otherwise, this is an excellent and easy way to make sprouts. I can get about 4 cups of leafy sprouts out of one container. For myself, I find that 3 of these sprouters is a good quantity for me (2 cups a day). You could probably get away with 2 as a single person. Sometimes I only am using 2 of the sprouters and sometimes 3 to keep the flow going. Generally the third container is for a small serving of sprouted grains for breakfast every now and again, since they don't store well and I don't want to make too much. If you are planning on storing your sprouts in the EasySprout, you might want to buy more of them. One note about dehulling: On the next to last rinse you may want to dehull. It requires filling the base container and center container up with water, pushing on the sprouts with a fork, letting the hulls float to the surface and dumping them off. (Again, there is info on this at sproutpeople). Despite your best efforts, it will be hard to get rid of all the hulls. No big deal. It's just extra fiber.

Based on 30 years of continuous use (of my original Sproutamo), I can recommend this product as an excellent sprouter. THAT SAID - I just received my new Sproutamo and noticed that the inner sprouter was just a hair larger than the alfalfa sprouts attachment that's supposed to seat firmly with a click at the bottom. I wrote to the manufacturer and they responded quickly informing me that some spouters were indeed recently shipped out that way and they're now sending me a new inner sprouter. SO.. If you already bought one and it isn't working the way it's supposed to, contact the manufacturer and your issue will be solved. Great company. Great sprouter.

This is a great product! Well worth the nominal investment. Fast, easy, and ,so far, foolproof (after 4 batches). I just bought a 2nd unit to facilitate a round-robin cycle of sprouting. The unit holds a copious 2 cups of fresh wheat berries that sprout within of the cup, when used to make rejuvalac. The sprouts are ready one day or so immediately following one 8-12 hour soak, when left in a not too cold room. No rinsing required for wheat berries (and purportedly several other grains/seeds) with this product! That's thanks to its thermo-convective design that uses the heat of the sprouting seed to cycle fresh air through it, which resists rotting. I'm working through a book on making vegan cheeses that use rejuvelac as the culturing agent. The book's instructions on making rejuvelac suggests a glass jar, left it in a draining position (awkward) and rinsing the berries a couple of times a day. That's a hassle compared to this product, which sits upright, and instructs a technique of just soaking the wheat berries all day or overnight, draining, and letting them sit until sprouted. Be aware that instructions are woefully remiss about clarifying how to achieve that convective configuration. They mention something about the inner cup sitting higher in the outer cup , leaving one scratching one's head about how to make that happen. It is simply achieved it by rotating the inner cup to align the vertical ridges on its rim with corresponding tabs on the inner-rim rim of the outer cup. The tabs on the outer cup lift the inner cup up in that position, in such a way as to make the inner cup sit about 1/2" above the outer one, leaving the necessary air gap for convection. Easy, solid and clever. If not rotated to the correct orientation, the inner cup will sit flush with the outer cup and impede air circulation substantially. That's the 'soak' position, not the 'sprout' position.

This Easy Sprout Sprouter was created by a guy at “Sprout People”. First of all, you should throw away the instructions that come with it. Don’t even look at them. Then you need to go to YouTube and search for “Sprout People”. There you will find two videos you need to watch first. The first one is Growing Leafy Sprouts in an Easy Sprout Sprouter. The next one is De-Hulling Leafy Sprouts. If you’re going to sprout beans, then you’ll also want to watch Sprouting Beans in an Easy Sprout Sprouter. Of course, you’ll also need to purchase seeds and/or beans. Sprout People offer lots of different blends on their site, but you can find them on Amazon from The Sprout House and Todd’s Seeds. If you’re new to sprouting, then The Sprout House 12-pack assortment is a nice start to find out what sprouting is all about. The Easy Sprout Sprouter is, by far, the best / easiest way to go. I like it so much I’ve purchased several to get friends started sprouting. The Sprout House Assorted Organic Sprouting Seeds Mixes Sample, Pack of 12 Sprouting Seeds Broccoli and Friends 1 Pound Broccoli Seed, Crimson Clover Seed, Red Radish Seed, Alfalfa Seed

I got this a year ago and started sprouting, and I couldn't be happier about it. I spent a lot of time at sproutpeople in preparation for this venture (I highly recommend their sprouting seed). In particular, this sprouter is ideal for broccoli (and other brassicas). Those require special consideration; broccoli (and other brassica) seeds are mucilaginous, so you can't really grow them upright (I haven't tried, that's just what I read)... so it's either something like this or a growing medium to raise them as microgreeens. One limitation: if you don't have air conditioning, you will probably not be able to keep up with sprouts in these over the summer. I ended up suspending all sprouting until the fall. There's just no keeping up with additional rinsing; sprouts just do not like the heat even in a dark countertop corner. This isn't a problem with the sprouter, it's just the way of sprouts (in my limited experience). Next summer, I may try to conduct my sprouting in the EasySprout kept in the fridge. This might work, but maybe summertime produce is enough for my diet. So, in my year of sprouting, I have sprouted many kinds in the EasySprout. I have since devised my own contraptions out of splatter screens and fine mesh strainers that I prefer for leafy sprouts, but the EasySprout remains essential for broccoli sprouts and has become the dedicated vessel for that. I even made a second unit out of a quart container with a thumbtack and boxcutter. It is not as good, but works well to keep a second batch going with a single EasySprout. I start a batch and see it through. When it's done or at least nearly done, I transfer my crop to my diy version and get another batch going. I continue to rinse and drain until they are gone; sometimes I relocate them to the fridge. It's a challenge to eat them all, but that's a great problem to have. So, a year into enthusiastic sprouting, and I still find the EasySprout essential for broccoli and other brassica sprouts. It's fairly indestructible and suitable for just about any sprout. Following the advice of another reviewer, I do not use the small seed insert. It may come in handy someday. Personally, I recommend running it through the dishwasher periodically (if that's an option), handwashing doesn't always cut it. Even if the EasySprout had outlived its usefulness, I would still value it highly for all the sprouts and sprouting it has provided with little capital investment. This really sparked a hobby and upgraded my diet for $13 (plus seeds). As things stand, I still need it for broccoli and brassica sprouts, which to me are the most important (nutritionally-- check out nutritionfacts for the intel). I'm about to embark on adventures in microgreens. Look at me grow!