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Grind 2 Different Grains into Flour - food.straw.flours PEP BB

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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in Food Prep and Preservation

For this badge bit, you will grind 2 different kinds of flour!


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Minimum requirements for this BB:
- grind two different grains into flour
- minimum 2 cups of flour per type of grain

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   - grains before grinding
   - grinding the grains
   - finished flours (meeting the above stated requirements)
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For this BB I ground two different grains into flour.

Grain #1 - wheat berries

Wheat berries ready to be milled into flour.

Grinding the wheat.

Whole wheat flour, 2+ cups


Grain #2 - brown rice

Brown rice ready to be ground into flour.

Grinding the rice.

Brown rice flour, 2+ cups.

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I ground black corn for pancakes and wheat for squash bread.
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Black corn before grinding.
Black corn before grinding.
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Grinding 2 cups of black corn.
Grinding 2 cups of black corn.
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Ground black corn.
Ground black corn.
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Wheat before grinding.
Wheat before grinding.
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Grinding 2 cups of wheat.
Grinding 2 cups of wheat.
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Ground wheat flour.
Ground wheat flour.
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One more shot of the ground wheat flour.
One more shot of the ground wheat flour.

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I ground wheat and nixtamalised corn into flours. I nixtamalised the corn and ran it through a meat grinder prior to dehydrating it, which is why it looks weird in this picture (process here)
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Grinding wheat, sifting out excess bran, obtain wholemeal flour
Grinding wheat, sifting out excess bran, obtain wholemeal flour
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Grinding nixtamalised corn from dried chunks into masa harina
Grinding nixtamalised corn from dried chunks into masa harina

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2 cups or oat flour. 2 cups of rice flour.

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I ground sorghum and einkorn grains into flour with my Vitamix. The sorghum is just over 2 cups. Einkorn is about 5 cups.
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Sorghum grains
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Grinding sorghum
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Sorghum flour
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Einkorn berries
Einkorn berries
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Grinding Einkorn
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Einkorn flour
Einkorn flour

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Minimum requirements for this BB:
- grind two different grains into flour
- minimum 2 cups of flour per type of grain

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 mins):
  - grains before grinding
  - grinding the grains
  - finished flours (meeting the above stated requirements)



I was very fortunate to win a KoMo Classic Grain mill and today I tried it out. It is fast and noisy, but I have no complaints. The flour smells amazing, it makes me think regular flour is dead in comparison. I milled enough flour for two loaves of bread. I also milled 2 cups of brown rice as I like to use it as a final dusting on my bread. Here are the pictures. The jar is a 1 pint bell jar.

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Grain #1 Hard White Wheat Berries- We grind on the finest setting, sift out the bran, then grind about half of it again and add back in. The rest of the bran we save for muffins and oatmeal.
Grain #2 Oats- First time trying oats and our mill did not like them at all so I went just a bit more than the 2 cups needed.
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Hard White Wheat Berries in bag
Hard White Wheat Berries in bag
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Wheat grinding and sifting out bran. We grind about half of the bran and add it back into the flour.
Wheat grinding and sifting out bran. We grind about half of the bran and add it back into the flour.
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Wheat flour
Wheat flour
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Oats
Oats
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Grinding the oats
Grinding the oats
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Oat flour
Oat flour

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1/2 way through grinding 2 grains
"Grain" 1 mix of 9 grains cut like steal cut oats. Made multi whole grain tortillas.
Grain 2 sprouted sorghum. To sprout dehydrate and grind 2 cups is going to be a while.
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2 1/4c steal cut
2 1/4c steal cut
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Grinding
Grinding
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Mixing tortillas dough
Mixing tortillas dough
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Sorghum
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Soaking
Soaking
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Ground some spelt and some red fife wheat for some tortillas https://nourishingsimplicity.org/whole-wheat-flour-tortillas-soaked/


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not ice cream in those buckets!
not ice cream in those buckets!
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Wheat left, spelt right
Wheat left, spelt right
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240g of spelt before grinding
240g of spelt before grinding
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2 cups of ground spelt
2 cups of ground spelt
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red fife before grinding
red fife before grinding
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2 cups of red fife wheat, along with the 2 cups of spelt in the bowl
2 cups of red fife wheat, along with the 2 cups of spelt in the bowl

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Please note that ALL food prep BBs strictly prohibit plastic, teflon or aluminum touching the food during the cooking or storage process.  

This includes food that came in plastic containers from the store, ziplock bags, plastic cooking utensils like spoons, spatulas, teflon pans, etc.

The end goal is to move toward cooking from own-grown ingredients and similar sources and using PEP principles (for example sustainable and non-toxic materials) as much as possible.

Some BB submissions are being grandfathered in, but we are moving toward more strict enforcement of this policy.

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I made oat and rice flour using our blender.
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I grind wheat, spelt and rye flour regularly. Then I mix in enough white flour for my kids to he happy with it 😆 usually a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio.
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Rye grains, unground
Rye grains, unground
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Spelt grains, unground
Spelt grains, unground
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Rye grinding
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Finished flours being mixed

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Dave Burton wrote:For this badge bit, you will grind 2 different kinds of flour!

Minimum requirements for this BB:
- grind two different grains into flour
- minimum 2 cups of flour per type of grain

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 mins):
   - grains before grinding
   - grinding the grains
   - finished flours (meeting the above stated requirements)



I used a hand grinder to grind oat groats to oat flour and hard red wheat berries to whole wheat flour, with an added plus of grinding my teeth while I was at it for ~3hrs. I highly advise an electric device like the brilliant people who submitted before me.
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Yay! The mill I brought got some use!!
If folks try to use this in the future, I find setting the mill lower really helped.
Rather than the counter, I'd give it a shot on the table instead.

When I was using it at home, I used a former computer desk ~30inches tall with a little shelf right below the table top.
This kept my shoulder in a comfortable position and my elbow at about 90degrees.

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I ground corn and wheat for this BB.  I started with over 2 cups of each and for me they get more voluminous after grinding.
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3ish cups of corn and wheat berries
3ish cups of corn and wheat berries
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Grinding wheat
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Finished wheat

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Rice and sorghum. Two cups of grain made about three cups of flour.
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I was looking at earlier submissions and noted that a lot of the grain mills were plastic so I thought mine was alright but it looks like it's not. Luckily, I can just remove the hopper and there is no more plastic!

Here is my updated submission, I re-did my grinding of rice and sorghum to remove the plastic.
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Brown basmati rice.
Brown basmati rice.
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An improvised hopper.
An improvised hopper.
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Shaking the improvised hopper to get the rice to go through.
Shaking the improvised hopper to get the rice to go through.
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Garbanzo is wondering what in the world I am doing.
Garbanzo is wondering what in the world I am doing.
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Rice is almost done grinding.
Rice is almost done grinding.
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Ta-da! Rice flour!
Ta-da! Rice flour!
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Sorghum.
Sorghum.
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Sorghum with my improvised hopper. I didn't have to shake it this time because sorghum is small.
Sorghum with my improvised hopper. I didn't have to shake it this time because sorghum is small.
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Almost done grinding the sorghum.
Almost done grinding the sorghum.
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Ta-da! Sorghum flour!
Ta-da! Sorghum flour!

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