I roasted some millet.
I rinsed the millet by putting it in a big bowl, filling it with water, stirring it up a bit, then draining, and repeated until the water was basically clear. Then I spread it out on 2 pans, a regular cake pan and the 'airbake' pan above.
I started it out at like 170 or something, whatever the lowest setting my oven could go, and after the grain seemed dry, I started ramping the temperature up (stir, raise temp on over 25 degrees, come back in 20 minutes to half hour). Not much seemed to happen until I hit 300, then it started to smell like I was baking something. At 325, my wife said it smelled like cake. At 350, it started to smoke, but without really smelling 'bad'.
Here's a comparison result:
Clockwise from the top: raw millet, millet from the 'airbake' pan after being at 350 for about half an hour, millet from the cake pan after 350 for an hour.
I left the airbake in for about half an hour longer than the cake pan, trying to get it to the same darkness, but it didn't happen before it was time for bed, so I've kept them separate.
So, what do you think I've created?
Oh, and just for fun:
I rinsed the millet by putting it in a big bowl, filling it with water, stirring it up a bit, then draining, and repeated until the water was basically clear. Then I spread it out on 2 pans, a regular cake pan and the 'airbake' pan above.
I started it out at like 170 or something, whatever the lowest setting my oven could go, and after the grain seemed dry, I started ramping the temperature up (stir, raise temp on over 25 degrees, come back in 20 minutes to half hour). Not much seemed to happen until I hit 300, then it started to smell like I was baking something. At 325, my wife said it smelled like cake. At 350, it started to smoke, but without really smelling 'bad'.
Here's a comparison result:
Clockwise from the top: raw millet, millet from the 'airbake' pan after being at 350 for about half an hour, millet from the cake pan after 350 for an hour.
I left the airbake in for about half an hour longer than the cake pan, trying to get it to the same darkness, but it didn't happen before it was time for bed, so I've kept them separate.
So, what do you think I've created?
Oh, and just for fun: