Agreed, Lynlee!
Guess I'm so familiar with growing in a flat tray with "soil", that it makes me more interested in the microgreens, Harmony. Also, they make the windowsill pretty. you can use mats/pads that look like felt, too (hydroponic type things). I have the impression they're more expensive, but could be wrong.
Have never tried growing sprouts. Yes, I think the advice for learning that is to start with bean sprouts of some type. Jar or bag. it's supposed to be very easy. Has anyone tried it? HRH hates how quickly his mung bean sprouts go bad after bringing home from the grocery.
Today we ate the broccoli microgreens on our salads for the first time. Cucumber was the last thing I had sliced into the bowls, so it was a pretty salad, dark baby greens on top of the light slices. Taste is good, somewhere between broccoli and radish - a little of that peppery radish taste. You just snip as much as you want with scissors as if cutting hair, and leave the rest growing.