Re: Birthday surprises

[Guest guest]

Aaaawwwweeeee!! You did real good!! Enjoy it all!!

kathi

--- Rejoyce Hanson wrote:

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My husband surprised me with a whole bunch of attachments for my

Kitchenaid that I got at Christmas.

He did get me the KA grain mill. I understand it is not as good

as

the Family Grain Mill that I wanted, plus the KA cost more, but

I'm

not going to complain b/c my dh actually did really well picking

things out that I wanted. And even got me a new scale b/c the

one

I've had since we got married broke recently, it said I weighed

80

pounds!!! Big Eye Balls!!! I'm just over 200, nice scale

huh???

Anyway...

I think I've read if the grain is run through 2X on fine that it

will

be okay. I have a commerical line mixer with the commerical

cooling

fan so over working the KA is not a concern I have.

I also got the attachment pack with the food grinder, the

shredder and

the fruit and veggie strainer.

Has anyone had any experience using these items?

Can I use any of them to make peanut butter?

Is the fruit and veggie strainer sort of like a juicer?

The KA Grain mill will handle Barley, does that mean it might

handle

Tapioca pearls (both being very hard grains)?

He had each of my children give me a little gold kid charm with

their

birth stone in the body area -- no chain to put them on, he

thought I

had enough necklaces, so he isn't totally perfect LOL.

Rejoyce

Winchester, VA

[Guest guest]

> Tapioca pearls (both being very hard grains)?

Tapioca is not a cereal grain.

Tapioca pearls are made from tapioca/cassava flour. They're not the

pure/whole form of the *root* in any way, shape, or form.

ygg

[Guest guest]

>

> The KA Grain mill will handle Barley, does that mean it might handle

> Tapioca pearls (both being very hard grains)?

> Rejoyce

> Winchester, VA

Maybe he should also have gotten you a hammer? ;-)

If you want tapioca from pearls in a flour-like form, put them in a

thick plastic ziplock and pound it - the pearls are really a processed

form of the ground starch. However, it would probably be easier to buy

tapioca starch.

And a belated happy birthday to you!

Maureen

[Guest guest]

I had to go look at my mill. I couldn't remember who made it. I've got The Kitchen Mill by Blendtec.

Does your mill have a grinding stone, or is it a metal burr mill? Apparently, the stone mills can't grind large items. I picked mine, which is a metal burr mill, specifically because it claimed to grind garbanzo beans and I wanted to be able to grind bean flours.

I don't think the tapioca pearls are all that hard. They go through my mill very easily. The tapioca pearls come in different sizes. If you have a stone mill, better to not get pearls that are any larger than a grain of barley.

By the way, I tried grinding converted rice, under the theory that since it was parboiled, it wouldn't be as gritty as regular rice flour. Wrong. It isn't any different, and now I have 25 pounds of converted rice and don't like it nearly as well as just plain rice for cooked rice.

best wishes

from Oregon

Re: Birthday surprises

>> The KA Grain mill will handle Barley, does that mean it might handle> Tapioca pearls (both being very hard grains)?> Rejoyce> Winchester, VAMaybe he should also have gotten you a hammer? ;-)If you want tapioca from pearls in a flour-like form, put them in athick plastic ziplock and pound it - the pearls are really a processedform of the ground starch. However, it would probably be easier to buytapioca starch.And a belated happy birthday to you!Maureen