How to Grow Your Own Bean Sprouts in Milk or Juice Carton? - Tutorial

Yass, the moment that I've been waiting for is here. It's week end!!! Do you have any plan for this week end? Well, I will surely enjoy my week end out side because we have a good weather here in Brussels. It's warm and the sun shines! I will also have a visit from a friend on Sunday, so it'd be so much nicer when you have a good company :-)

Even though it's easy to find bean sprouts in convenient store, I prefer to grow them by myself. In my home country, Indonesia, bean sprouts are sold in different sizes: short, medium, and long. While here, they sell the long one. Also, it's not easy to find the organic one. I find the organic one tastes so much better.

Today I will share with you how to grow your own bean sprouts using milk or juice carton. Why milk or juice carton? Because I drink a lot milk so I end up with loads of milk carton. It's a good way to give my cartons second life by reusing them before recycling. Besides, bean sprouts dont need any lights to growing, so this container is a good environment for them.

Bean Sprouts

What you need

• 1/3 cup or 80 gr Mung Bean or any other bean that you like
• 1 liter milk or juice carton

Directions

• Cut the top edges to make four small holes. This help the bean sprouts to breathe also it helps us to drain the water without opening the top and to prevent the bean to escape.

• Transfer the Mung Bean into the carton using funnel. Since I dont have one, I used a DIY funnel from a piece of paper instead :-D Dont put too much bean inside the carton because they will need rooms to grow.

• Fill the the carton with lukewarm water. Put the top on.

• Place in the dark place for 12 hours. I put mine in my cupboard.

• 12 hours later, drain off the water from the holes that we have made. Then place it back in the dark room again. Water the bean 2 times a day, in the morning and in the evening. Fill in the carton with water, let stand for 30 minutes then drain off the water. Do this process for 4-6 days. The beans will grow everyday and you will feel that the carton will full of bean sprouts.

• Below is my bean sprouts on the 3rd day. I will harvest them tomorrow, on the 4th day, because I prefer my bean sprouts this way, not too long. Just cut out the top part of the carton with scissors when you want to harvest them. Pour them in a big bowl filled with water. The skin will float and it's easy to remove :-)

Even though it's inexpensive to buy bean sprouts, homegrown is always better and it's easy. I hope this information is useful for you.

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Have a nice week end,

All content and photos are original and mine. Photos were taken with Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000.