Stonecutter wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:41 pm
Deplorable wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:06 pm
Starting to grind corn, old school, for a batch of all corn myself.
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Hell yeah! Ye olde Corn grinder from earlier this month eh? Did you do the restorations yourself Deplorable?
I did. All but the welding. There was a piece broken out on the flywheel where it mounts to the shaft. A brother from lodge got it welded up for me.
I soaked everything in vinegar for 72 hours to remove the rust, gave it a good scrub with a scotchbrite pad, and two coats of primer and two coats of paint to the outside. replaced all the hardware with new SS bolts and nuts. ran some rice through it, then some popcorn. made a few adjustments to get the setting where I wanted it, and grabbed a 50# sack of field corn to try it out.
- Single pass
It's a workout. The hopper holds about 3 pounds, and it takes 5 minutes to grind through a hopper full. 2 Hoppers full per arm gives you a good arm pump. Its about 92F in the garage, so Im gonna finish the rest of the bag in the morning when its cooler. I got about half way through it tonight.
Im going to grind this bag and mash it with enzymes, 2 pounds per gallon and see what I get for an OG. If I dont get 8 to 10%, I'll run the next sack through a little finer, or run it a 2nd pass through my roller mill, but there is a lot of flour in this. I think I'll be okay on a no boil mash. My intention is to fill a 5 gallon barrel with 100% corn. at $13 a bag, I should be able to fill a barrel for $60 or so.
If Im not satisfied with the yield, from feed corn, I'll go back to corn meal, but at 1/3 the cost of cornmeal, I have to at least try it out. My experience with corn meal and SCD's easy mashing technique gets me 1.068 to 1.074 consistently at 2#/gallon.
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