I quite enjoy cereals that have a range of different ingredients - like oat clusters with freeze dried strawberry or museli with almonds and raisins. Over time though, the oats rise to the top and the smaller bits get trapped at the bottom so when you’re near the end of the packet it’s 70% dust.
Is there an easy way to prevent this? It’s hard to mix up the contents without breaking up everything into smaller bits. And shaking up the packet just makes the separation worse.
That’s just the property of gravity. And the different weights of your cereals. You could individually package the serial into small containers at the start so you could maintain uniform distribution. You could shake the bag before you pour some out. But you run the risk of breaking the cereal.
It’s called brazil nut effect.
Scientific name of the effect: Granular convection
We just call them nuts here
Having the ingredients in individual containers is a good idea! However I usually buy a pre-made muesli mix and surprisingly it seems to work out very cheap compared to buying the individual ingredients (unless perhaps I was to buy them in bulk somewhere). I’m not sure I can beat £2 for 1kg of muesli from Aldi. It’s convenient too, but then I run into the separation issues of course.
Either you’re missing a place to buy the ingredients in bulk. Or they’re cheating you on something.
If anyone knows where to buy muesli ingredients in bulk in the UK I’d be interested to hear!
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Yeah, it’s rather inescapable. This phenomenon is sometimes known as the 'Brazil nut effect`