Meat Grinder

[kylebryan]

Anyone ever use a meat grinder to mill their malted and dried corn?

[ga flatwoods]

It doesnt mill, it grinds and is hard to turn while cutting through each individual grain.
Ga Flatwoods

[kaziel]

Only for fruit. Heard stories about engines overheating while grinding grains (wheat or rye) corn it even harder.

[Jimbo]

yes sir, takes some HP to grind. I about burned up a 1/2" drill on a simple corona mill chewing through a bag of cracked corn ( to get a smaller crack). Drill was smokin!

[Pappy G]

What is the recommended method?

[Jimbo]

for corn good luck for everything else use a roller mill

[jholmz]

if the corn is soaked in water or fresh malt before drying its not bad to do with a hand grinder but dried corn is a pita

[shadylane]

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I use one of these and my drill to power it.

[scout]

http://www.midwestsupplies.com/crushing ... perly.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow has a good variety of mills. These crack the grains instead of slicing through them and most hand units can be adapted to electric motor use.

[Ga_goat]

I got mine from Home depot ,,, about $28 ,, no shipping charges , it has a handle and grinds dry corn pretty good , but you will have to build a hood over the burr plates because it will fly everywhere ,,, and you can only get a 2" deep pan under the burr . but I can grind 15 pounds in 15 min .

[shadylane]

Ga-goat, your not kidding when you say "it will fly everywhere"
I grind outside so the birds can clean up the mess after I'm done.
I'm personally responsible for keeping a flock of birds well fed this winter.
But the ungrateful little bastard's shit on my Dyna Glide.