What is broken-wheat (Bulgar), Cracked-wheat? Difference

Par-cooked wheat berry is sheared by flour mill to produce Broken-wheat. Un-cooked wheat berry is sheared by the flour mill to produce cracked-wheat

What is broken wheat?

Broken-wheat is also called Bulghur, Bulgar, Biurghal, or Wheat-groats
Wheat berries are boiled in water till they start to become just squeezable. The par-cooked wheat berries are dried in hot-sun, or an oven near 115º F. Dried par-cooked wheat berries are than sheared in a flour mill. The milled Bulgar wheat is sorted by sieves according to coarseness: Coarse, Medium, and fine.

In the olden days the wheat berries were actually soaked in water and sprouted just like you would sprout the Moong Beans. On the 3rd or 4th day, as soon as the berries started to sprout, they were laid out in the hot sun to dry. The dried berries were then sheared in the hand-operated stone mill (Chakki).

What is cracked wheat?

Raw dried wheat berries are sheared in a wheat flour mill. The milled wheat is sorted by sieves according to coarseness: Coarse, Medium, and fine.

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