What is a preflattend buckwheat hull?
The concept of the preflattened buckwheat hull is actually quite comical. It is unclear which company invented this term to make an inferior hull look more sophisticated. The machines that separate the buckwheat fruit from the shell (hull) either keep the hull intact or they destroy the hull. The more expensive the dehulling machine is, the better it preserves the shape of the hull. An intact hull has more of a three dimensional form (several parts form a shape) while the destroyed hull looks entirely flat. The flat piece is really only a part of the once intact hull. One intact hull can be broken into 3-4 flat pieces. The intact hull is elastic and allows the filling to “bounce”, meaning it is less rigid and gives a bit. The pillow filling feels less hard and is more comfortable. A pillow with flattened (namely destroyed) hulls has no elasticity, feels much harder, and has no bounce to it. The pillow will need more of the flattened hulls to fill it all the way which makes the pillow h
