Rinse them thoroughly in cold running water. Make sure water penetrates properly. Then check smell and texture by squashing one between finger and thumb. If some hardness there and no smell it's fine.
If there's a smell after rinsing bin it.
Try not to soak more than over night to one day if you do rinse and change water once a day twice a day on hot days. You can refrigerate on hot days in water.

> wrote in message
...
> Rinse them thoroughly in cold running water. Make sure water penetrates
> properly. Then check smell and texture by squashing one between finger and
> thumb. If some hardness there and no smell it's fine.
> If there's a smell after rinsing bin it.
> Try not to soak more than over night to one day if you do rinse and change
> water once a day twice a day on hot days. You can refrigerate on hot days
> in water.

Lentils shouldn't be soaked prior to cooking. You can sprout them though.
Sounds like that's what you were aiming for? If so, they need to be rinsed
several times a day.

Soaking is beneficial. It reduces phytic acid and anti-nutrient content so we can actually get nutrients out of them.

On 2/1/2019 1:46 PM, wrote:
> Soaking is beneficial. It reduces phytic acid and anti-nutrient content so we can actually get nutrients out of them.
>
Oh goody, another non-cook who doesn't know the difference between
cooking lentils and dried beans.

Jill

Yep. Soak grains/lentils whatever! 100%. If you don't you won't be able to absorb enough goodies. Sorry, all anti soakers are wrong. Look into Nourishing traditions cookbook Sally Fallon. Lifesaver. Cheery!

> wrote in message
...
> Yep. Soak grains/lentils whatever! 100%. If you don't you won't be able to
> absorb enough goodies. Sorry, all anti soakers are wrong. Look into
> Nourishing traditions cookbook Sally Fallon. Lifesaver. Cheery!

That's just not true.

Julie Bove wrote:
>
> > wrote:
> > Yep. Soak grains/lentils whatever! 100%. If you don't you won't be able to
> > absorb enough goodies. Sorry, all anti soakers are wrong. Look into
> > Nourishing traditions cookbook Sally Fallon. Lifesaver. Cheery!
>
> That's just not true.

I agree. Lentils, split peas, barley... I know for a fact they
don't need to be presoaked.

"Julie Bove" > wrote in
:

>
> > wrote in message
> ...
>> Yep. Soak grains/lentils whatever! 100%. If you don't you won't be
>> able to absorb enough goodies. Sorry, all anti soakers are wrong.
>> Look into Nourishing traditions cookbook Sally Fallon. Lifesaver.
>> Cheery!
>
> That's just not true.
>

I never soak lentils, just beans.



--
I love a good meal! That's why I don't cook.

On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 Gary wrote:
>Julie Bove wrote:
>> > wrote:
>> > Yep. Soak grains/lentils whatever! 100%. If you don't you won't be able to
>> > absorb enough goodies. Sorry, all anti soakers are wrong. Look into
>> > Nourishing traditions cookbook Sally Fallon. Lifesaver. Cheery!
>>
>> That's just not true.
>
>I agree. Lentils, split peas, barley... I know for a fact they
>don't need to be presoaked.

However they need to be picked over for foreign matter and well
washed. For pea soup I prefer to use whole dried peas, not always
easy to find but better pea flavor than splits and they need to be
soaked for eight hours. As an aside I detest lentils, they smell like
mooslims. The soup we have most often is beef barley 'shroom, I
usually fill my 24 quart pot. We like pea soup too and during the
summer growing season I make a lot of vegetable soups.
Dinner tonight I'll roast a 4 lb top round, baked spuds, and broccoli
crowns; 99¢/lb, beef roasts this week are BOGO. I never buy the
roasts displayed, I have the butcher make up my roasts, he knows I'm a
fuss pot. Yesterday I got two 4 pounders, one for tonight, one for
the freezer.

On 12/10/2019 11:46 AM, Gary wrote:
> Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> > wrote:
>>> Yep. Soak grains/lentils whatever! 100%. If you don't you won't be able to
>>> absorb enough goodies. Sorry, all anti soakers are wrong. Look into
>>> Nourishing traditions cookbook Sally Fallon. Lifesaver. Cheery!
>>
>> That's just not true.
>
> I agree. Lentils, split peas, barley... I know for a fact they
> don't need to be presoaked.
>
As I orginally replied, the OP is a non-cook who doesn't know what
they're talking about. Pushing some sort of "healthy" crap by Sally
Somebody. Brought to us (naturally) by Google groups.

Jill

wrote:
> As an aside I detest lentils, they smell like
> mooslims.

Agree Popeye. Them mooslim's pussies are not as pungent as the 100%
mayan whores from mexico. They squirt a thick, purulent 100 ft
stream when they get off. And they smell like pinto beans, not lentils.

If yoose gonna **** a darkie, the 100% mayans are the best whores on
the planet ... maybe even the universe. Damn mooslims can't compare
to 100% mayans.

On Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 5:19:52 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 Gary wrote:
> >Julie Bove wrote:
> >> > wrote:
> >> > Yep. Soak grains/lentils whatever! 100%. If you don't you won't be able to
> >> > absorb enough goodies. Sorry, all anti soakers are wrong. Look into
> >> > Nourishing traditions cookbook Sally Fallon. Lifesaver. Cheery!
> >>
> >> That's just not true.
> >
> >I agree. Lentils, split peas, barley... I know for a fact they
> >don't need to be presoaked.
>
> However they need to be picked over for foreign matter and well
> washed. For pea soup I prefer to use whole dried peas, not always
> easy to find but better pea flavor than splits and they need to be
> soaked for eight hours. As an aside I detest lentils, they smell like
> mooslims.

What do "mooslims" smell like, considering they live everywhere from
the U.S. to Africa, clear across to Indonesia.

Cindy Hamilton

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 5:19:52 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 Gary wrote:
>>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> Yep. Soak grains/lentils whatever! 100%. If you don't you won't be able to
>>>>> absorb enough goodies. Sorry, all anti soakers are wrong. Look into
>>>>> Nourishing traditions cookbook Sally Fallon. Lifesaver. Cheery!
>>>>
>>>> That's just not true.
>>>
>>> I agree. Lentils, split peas, barley... I know for a fact they
>>> don't need to be presoaked.
>>
>> However they need to be picked over for foreign matter and well
>> washed. For pea soup I prefer to use whole dried peas, not always
>> easy to find but better pea flavor than splits and they need to be
>> soaked for eight hours. As an aside I detest lentils, they smell like
>> mooslims.
>
> What do "mooslims" smell like, considering they live everywhere from
> the U.S. to Africa, clear across to Indonesia.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>

Popeye just smells his own upper lip ... then gets offended by mooslims.

On Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 12:46:29 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 5:19:52 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 Gary wrote:
> > >Julie Bove wrote:
> > >> > wrote:
> > >> > Yep. Soak grains/lentils whatever! 100%. If you don't you won't be able to
> > >> > absorb enough goodies. Sorry, all anti soakers are wrong. Look into
> > >> > Nourishing traditions cookbook Sally Fallon. Lifesaver. Cheery!
> > >>
> > >> That's just not true.
> > >
> > >I agree. Lentils, split peas, barley... I know for a fact they
> > >don't need to be presoaked.
> >
> > However they need to be picked over for foreign matter and well
> > washed. For pea soup I prefer to use whole dried peas, not always
> > easy to find but better pea flavor than splits and they need to be
> > soaked for eight hours. As an aside I detest lentils, they smell like
> > mooslims.
>
> What do "mooslims" smell like, considering they live everywhere from
> the U.S. to Africa, clear across to Indonesia.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

I went to university with a mooslim, at least, that's the way I pronounce it because that's the way she pronounced it. She was from Egypt and mostly, she smelled like money. She was exotic, beautiful, and way above the regular schlubs in the class. I was lucky enough to have some classes with exotic, rich, creatures like these from places like Thailand, and China. Well alright.

On Monday, June 29, 2020 at 3:12:50 AM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 12:46:29 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 5:19:52 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
> > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 Gary wrote:
> > > >Julie Bove wrote:
> > > >> > wrote:
> > > >> > Yep. Soak grains/lentils whatever! 100%. If you don't you won't be able to
> > > >> > absorb enough goodies. Sorry, all anti soakers are wrong. Look into
> > > >> > Nourishing traditions cookbook Sally Fallon. Lifesaver. Cheery!
> > > >>
> > > >> That's just not true.
> > > >
> > > >I agree. Lentils, split peas, barley... I know for a fact they
> > > >don't need to be presoaked.
> > >
> > > However they need to be picked over for foreign matter and well
> > > washed. For pea soup I prefer to use whole dried peas, not always
> > > easy to find but better pea flavor than splits and they need to be
> > > soaked for eight hours. As an aside I detest lentils, they smell like
> > > mooslims.
> >
> > What do "mooslims" smell like, considering they live everywhere from
> > the U.S. to Africa, clear across to Indonesia.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
>
> I went to university with a mooslim, at least, that's the way I pronounce it because that's the way she pronounced it. She was from Egypt and mostly, she smelled like money. She was exotic, beautiful, and way above the regular schlubs in the class. I was lucky enough to have some classes with exotic, rich, creatures like these from places like Thailand, and China. Well alright.

Good to know. I've been up nights for six months, waiting for that reply.

Cindy Hamilton

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
....
> Good to know. I've been up nights for six months, waiting for that reply.

you're great at math...


songbird (the op post is from September of 1995

On Monday, June 29, 2020 at 8:01:55 AM UTC-4, songbird wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> ...
> > Good to know. I've been up nights for six months, waiting for that reply.
>
> you're great at math...
>
>
> songbird (the op post is from September of 1995

dsi1 replied to a post of mine from last December. That's the one I was
referring to.

Cindy