grinding corn?

[joyfulheart]

If you grind corn, does that make cornmeal?

I know that is a really dumb question, just tryig to figure out what to do with ground corn...

Thanks!

[Marilyn]

It might depend on just how finely it is ground. If it is very course, it might be cracked corn - somewhat finer would be cornmeal and very fine would be corn flour. Hope this helps. I realize that it isn't very exact, but so much depends on how fine the grind.

[joyfulheart]

Oh, that REALLY helps!

Ok, next dumb question-- do you use regular popping type popcorn or the corn feed stuff you see at walmart and feed stores???

[barnyardfun]

I don't know what most people use but I use the popping style corn. Popcorn is one of my family's favorites so I always have it on hand. Pretty easy for me to just throw a few handfulls in the grinder. Comes out looking good and looks like the stuff you can buy.

[Jenn]

I use filed corn never tried popcorn. Seems to me like the popcorn hull is tougher than the field corn hull but byf must know best.

NB (note well): do NOT grind your corn in a stone grinder. The oil gums up the stone and you have to bake it at the highest setting (a kiln would be better than an oven) and spend a long time chipping out corn from the etching on the stone with a nutpick. BTDT- get steel burrs for corn! And peanuts etc I assume- never ground them though.

[Tracy Rimmer]

I wouldn't use feed store corn -- at least not the stuff meant to be animal feed, as it's processed differently (it might not be as clean as I'd want it). I CERTAINLY wouldn't use seed corn, as much of it is treated.

The place I buy some of my dry goods from has both popping corn, and corn meant for grinding, but you CAN use popping corn for cornmeal.

[ronbre]

it will work in a vitamix..might in a regular flour grinder..

[Stephen in SOKY]

Here Dent corn is used for meal. Reid's Yellow Dent is a favorite variety, Nothstine is another. Folks can get pretty serious about corn meal, mixing in a proprtion of sweet corn, only using certain varieties of corn, etc.

[Yvonne's hubby]

yellow field corn, (dent corn) dryed properly for grinding makes a good corn meal for critter feed or a particular processed bottled product. Or if not ground fine it makes cracked corn as mentioned above. For good household corn meal, I like a white corn, preferably Hickory King which is an old timey open pollenated corn, but can be a real bugger to keep some for yourself as the crows seem to dearly love it above any others. I also like to grind a small amount of Hickory King after sprouting it to make malt to blend in with the yellow corn for the bottled corn. It gives it a nice mellow corn flavor.

[paintlady]

It depends on the coarseness of the grind. It could be cornflour which is fine, or cornmeal which varies depending on the grind. Whatever you do with it corn flour/meal is very perishable and can turn rancid if not stored properly. Freezing is the best way to keep it fresh.