Buckwheat Groats

I tried some buckwheat ~~gross~~ groats yesterday and I must be missing something. I don't know what the problem is but they were awful, nasty, burnt smelling (and no I didn't burn them).

I tried with sugar but then it was like burnt, bland cookies.

I thought about dried fruit but that didn't help either.

Maybe they have to be mixed with something to be good but I don't see how they could improve the taste of anything.

It was kind of cool though watching them in the pot of water, sort of like those sponges encased in a gel capsule - Grow A Dinosaur sort of thing. I don't want to eat those either.

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