Why I made my mill reversible

Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:37 pm

So sticking a plastic knife in my motorized Morebeer mill to get the flaked wheat to feed isn't the smartest thing I've done, but it did make me glad that a) it wasn't my finger, b) I wired up my mill so it can be reversed.
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Re: Why I made my mill reversible

Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:31 am

I don't think a finder would have fared so well. damn.
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Re: Why I made my mill reversible

Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:43 am

Ouch! Having had my finger sucked into a pizza dough roller, that would have left a mark...
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Re: Why I made my mill reversible

Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:31 am

That reminds me of this one time... at band camp...
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Re: Why I made my mill reversible

Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:42 pm

Nice knurling...
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Re: Why I made my mill reversible

Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:39 am

Out of curiosity.....why are you milling flaked wheat???


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Re: Why I made my mill reversible

Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:43 am

Whitebeard_Brewer wrote:Out of curiosity.....why are you milling flaked wheat???

Instructions in Jamil's Wit recipe from Brew Your Own (July-August 2007, p.19):
Mill the grains (including the flaked grains, but excluding the rice hulls).

I had heard before that this gave higher extraction.
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Re: Why I made my mill reversible

Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:15 pm

It'll break them up more, as is each kernel is usually one or two flat pieces. Run it through a mill and you'll get multiple small pieces = greater surface area. That being said, if your mill doesn't usually have issues, you can mix your flaked in with the rest of your grist and run it, should get stuck less.
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