Thursday, 25 July 2013

Hagberg Falling Number

A measure of the quality of wheat and its suitability for certain processes.

In practice it is a measure of the viscosity of a broth made from the grain.

A sample of the grain is ground, mixed with water and heated. It is put into a narrow tube and the time taken in seconds for a weighted plunger to fall a fixed distance is noted.

From http://www.farm-direct.co.uk/shared/glossary.html

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