Thats very interesting, thanks for the idea! I sowed a little experimental winter wheat patch on a quarter UK allotment (around 50m sq) and had a good harvest, but thats when my problems began as I hadn't dome much research into the processing, so I found a very heath-robinson method of rubbing the wheat grain heads between two boards covered in chicken wire which kinda worked but was very labour intensive and still left a lot of individual grains with a covering, (not sure what they are called, but like two little dried leaves around each grain) and I still don't know how to deal with them! Any ideas of how to get those last little flakes of chaff off the grain? Can't wait to process the clean grain and make bread, next question is best way to grind small amounts into flour...
Beau M. Davidson wrote:I am daggum tired of the plastic single-use pepper mills that don't work, break, and go in the landfill at end-of-life. It's time to upgrade to a refillable pepper mill.
Here's my main criteria:
No plastic.
Nothing electric.
Buy it for life.
Do you have one you love?
The old-school Greek and Turkish brass or copper ones are cool, but the missus doesn't want to go that route.
Beefy old-school greek pepper mill
I was thinking classic, pawn-shaped twist mill with ceramic burrs. Probably wood, maybe stainless.
These two look decent and get decent chatter on Reddit, for what it's worth:
Trudeau Stainless Pawn Pepper Mill
CrushGrind Pawn Walnut Pepper Mill
Curshgrind seems to make dependable mills that are $50 or less, whereas most other high quality brands are 3 digits.
But then Kristen looked over my should and liked the more modern, straight lines better.
She rather likes this one. I think she'd love it if it was in walnut. We have copious walnut trees on our farm and mill a lot of it, so there is a lot of walnut in our kitchen and dining area.
CrushGrind Modern Oak Pepper Mill
She liked the straight lines of this one, but I wager it is cheaply made and won't last a year:
Adhoc Acacia pepper mill
People seem to really like this weird Kuhn Rikon ratchet grinder, but it has what I assume is acrylic which is not preferable, the mechanism is weird, and it's kind of ugly to me. I mention it because it's different.
Kuhn Rikon Ratchet Grinder
There are some other styles, like twist crank things and stuff, but I skipped it if there weren't any apparent non-plastic examples.
Am I overlooking anything I should be considering? I saw some Peugeot that looked like contenders, but heck it would sting to spend a hundred dollars on a pepper mill.
And if you like a good read where garlic is at the centre of a love affair, I recommend
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres,, although it is set at a terrible time in human history I have to say, as a garlic lover, it is quite memorable!
Guys, guys, we are only talking about a quantity of water for drinking ! How much does a family drink in a day, maybe a big family may consume 20 litres?
This is just a very small scale purification project of a small drum, or jar with the charcoal and sand filters, adn a little tap so it can be drawn off cleanly. We are talking of using an existing well, you throw a bucket down and collect your 20L a day and don't forget to keep the containers clean too, nothing complicated. then you put the filtered water in a nice big earthenware pot in the corner of the kitchen that allows the water to evaporate and it cools a little too, enjoy!
