Cooking and Baking with Hemp at Home
Recipes, techniques and the small rules that keep hemp tasting good. These articles cover blending your own hemp milk, swapping part of the flour in bread and muffins for hemp protein, folding hearts into pesto, granola and smoothies, and dressing salads with the seed oil. Because hemp's fats are delicate, most of the advice concerns heat: what to add at the end, what tolerates the oven, and which flavours, from citrus to dark chocolate, suit its grassy, nutty taste.
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Why Hemp Seeds Go Rancid (and How to Store Them So They Don't)
Hemp seeds turn bitter and fishy because their fragile omega-3 fats oxidize. Here is why it happens, fridge versus freezer versus pantry shelf-life numbers for hearts, whole seed, oil and protein, and how to spot each when it has gone off.
Cooking With Hemp: Why Heat Is the Enemy
Hemp seed oil smokes at 165°C. Hemp hearts oxidise quickly. Working with hemp in the kitchen is a matter of using the right product at the right temperature, with five reliable applications laid out.