fundamentals-grain grinder

FRIDAY FUNDAMENTALS-GRAIN GRINDER


I can’t believe that people want to spend hundreds of dollars on a grain grinder ( Wonder Junior Deluxe Hand Grain / Flour Mill by Wondermill ). A grinder is two steel wheels turning around to grind kernels. How special/complicated/over priced do you need it? And I especially can’t believe anyone would entertain the notion of needing a motorized grinder. Earth to Space Cadet Dumbass, the future will contain no carbon based power. It will all be human or animal powered. The fuel will run out, the hydroelectric machines will lack replacement parts and no matter who you are you can’t store enough fuel. And that fuel should be for cooking, not grinding. Yes, you need a grinder. You can’t live on boiled gruel alone and using two stones leaves grit that will wear down your teeth. It’s only $20 to get a grinder ( Grizzly H7775 Cast Iron Corn / Grain Mill ). You think that your special pampered Yuppie ass can only survive with a $300 grinder and so don’t have one yet, but all you are buying is a less resistant, less elbow grease unit. It doesn’t grind grain any better, just easier. Easy is good, but not if it keeps you from buying the necessary equipment. Buy your friggin $20 unit and then, if you have the time and money, buy your dream unit later and use the cheap one as a back-up ( and if you stick with a cheap one, have more than one, just in case ).

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The granola eating, tie dye wearing, non armpit arm shaving hippies ( Set of 10 Pinback Buttons HIPPIES 60s WOODSTOCK Peace Signs Tie Dye BOHO ) started using the Corona mill back in the day. This was a unit made in Mexico/Columbia which was designed for grinding corn. Wheat being in short supply down south. When your Hippie went to run wheat through the corn grinder, it didn’t do a thorough job of grinding. With wheat, you must run through three times. Once on course, another on middlin and a third on fine setting. Herein lies the current trouble for this kind of grinder. People that get into a vehicle, put on their seatbelt, back up after waiting for traffic, drive two blocks to another stop, pull into the parking lot while texting about what they are doing, wait impatiently for a front door slot to open, park, and then huff and puff out of their seat, their face glowing bright red from exertion, they can’t be bothered to run a batch of grain through a grinder THREE WHOLE TIMES!!!!! This is way too much work. I did it as a youth, a weeks worth at a time, but they can’t find the energy to do it themselves. The last time I ground my own wheat was in Florida where the exertion in the heat wasn’t worth saving $3 a month, but when I go back to grinding out of necessity it certainly won’t be with any other kind of grinder. The Corona mill is a cast iron slab that will last several lifetimes.

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Now, the Corona is somewhat expensive at $50 or $60, but for a limited time, while the oil remains for shipping, we have Chinese generic knock-offs. That is your $20 grain grinder. Buy two or three. I do not recommend the small, light weight flat grinder for $75 or so ( Victorio Hand Crank Grain Mill ). Yes, it grinds on one very easy pass. But it rains down the plastic washers fit inside it as it does. Even if you buy lots of replacement washers it has a finite life. If you don’t throw the cast iron grinder under a dripping awning to rust it should last a very long time indeed. Some tools are so good at what they do, and so affordable, that it is retarded not to invest in their ownership.

END FUNDAMENTALS SECTION-MORE DRIVEL BELOW.

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I can’t believe this needs to be said, but Friday Fundamentals is just that- a revisit to fundamentals. So the yahoo that complained last week about my repeating the subject about bleach bottle showers, I can only stare at you in slack jawed amazement. Friggin Duh! Fridays are a rehash of basics. If you don’t like them, I’ll stop. Just say the word. My original plan was to post in a separate section on my web page and I’m sure I’ll still do that. It will make a nice resource for newly arriving potential probationary loyal minions. Also, if there s something you want to see covered, let me know.

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Oh, this is pretty rich indeed. I’ve been missing the news for the last week due to increased commute time because of snow and the four day weekend, so I just heard that the Irish debt crisis ( The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Debt Crisis of 2010 - 2012 ) ( The Coming First World Debt Crisis ) is being partially combated with retirement money. The bailout that the EU is talking about is something to the tune of eighty billion ( think of Ireland’s economy as smaller than California- which is in fine trouble with a forty billion deficit- to get perspective on what first seems a small amount ) and Ireland is throwing in about ten billion from its version of Social Security. In effect what this boils down to is that the countries retirees are having their pensions signed over to the bankers. Oh, you can bet that there are grand promises and plans to replace the money, but in the end a lot of people are going to get their geriatric wrinkled shriveled asses bent over and violated. They will have the good graces to die from lack of heating oil or malnutrition so that the lack of a pension can be glossed over. And as I’ve already said, once the small European countries are done being looted by the bankers, it is our turn next. Not that Social Security actually has any money to steal ( the program had absolutely zero money saved from its very inception- the surplus was spent and IOU’s were issued ), but you can bet that whatever form the theft takes it will be painful to those on the dole ( yes, yes, I know you deserve every penny- the question is who in power will care ).

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