Cleaning & Washing•Quality control to ensure skin is clean and any roots
•Four phase cleaning •Separate chufas from the earth •Separate thick stones •Remove any hair on the chufas •Soaking and pass through various shafts and showers to ensure all gravel are removed and chufas are properly cleaned |
Drying•Humidity reduce from 50% to 11%
•Slow process over 3 to 6 months •Dried in huge buildings created specifically for drying chufas –meticulous managing air flow to monitor humidity •Traditional way of drying and airing chufas over centuries • Continuously and carefully turned over manually daily to allow chufas to attain uniform drying |
Selection•Sorting to eliminate impurities and bad undersized chufas
•Manual selection and screened through by chufa specialists to ensure consistency and only good chufas will be picked and packed |