Hot leaching of acorns
The most important thing when hot rinsing is to keep an eye on the temperature. In the literature, it is often stated that the acorn is "cooked" during hot leaching, but actually they are meant to be boiled, thus heated to 85–96°C. If they are cooked, the starch in the acorns begins to convert in a process called gelatinization. What happens then is that part of […]