Extraction - De-Shelling Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds

[JDreaming]

SWIM recently started experimenting with LSA containing seeds, starting with morning glories and then- after finding them difficult to work with due to the quantity involved- moved to HBWR. SWIM read repeatedly about how important it is to remove the "fuzzy seed coat" and how this area contains most of the nasty glycosides. But upon arrival, SWIM found them almost impossible to de-shell. There seems to be no firm line where the shell ends and the seed center begins; there's certainly no seam that you could pull it apart from, like with sunflower seeds. It seems to be coated in a rock-hard, firmly bonded shell material. SWIM can cut a seed in half and see the white center and the dark edges, but found it almost impossible to hold a tiny seed down, take a knife to it and cut it. SWIM tried cutting, filing, scissoring, clipping pieces off with nail clippers, and generally trying anything available to take off seed shells without eliminating good material. But even after spending like ten minutes on a single seed it still didn't look cleanly and safely de-shelled. Does anyone have advice on how to easily prepare HBWR for extraction/consumption? Thanks in advance.

[Bajeda]

Get X-acto knife.

Apply to outside of side.

Continue as necessary until it feels like you are scraping against rock.

You are set.

[seechao]

SWIM has noticed that many etho botanical suppliers now have pre-shelled seeds, with only little tiny patches of fluff on one out of 5 seeds, it is a brownish beige coating, very light and fluffy, and flakes off the darker seed, if your seeds are already dark, your seeds have probably been pre-cleaned. SWIM has also noticed the fluffies flaking off all by themselves, leaving a layer of fluff at the bottom of his bag of seeds, look carefully, you should see some evidence of the fluff on a few seeds, or at the bottom of the bag, if so, flake those bits off, but dont worry too much. SWIM did the same thing, and husked a few seeds down to the pulp before figuring it out, which gave him quite alot of work to do, for nothing.