What type of processed grain products do you store?

Here is the companion poll to the whole grains question.

What sort of processed grain products do you store? By this I mean products made from grain that you did not yourself produce such as refined wheat flour, rolled oats, rye flour, corn meal, corn starch, and so on?

There are an enormous number of different products that can fall into this category so the poll questions have to be very general to cover the field. Please feel free to post about anything in specific you would like to discuss.

[jtjf_1]

Our other would be Tapioca flour my wife uses in her traditional cooking

[partndn]

Woops, I just clicked and I think I neglected to check corn meal.

I checked several things, but am posting to clarify that by "storing" them, I mean I always have a good amount on hand, like a few months worth.

But I have learned from the folks on this forum that I should not count on long term storage for already ground grains. I'm aiming at different types of wheat for that storage in whole berry form.

I do, however keep corn starch for a long time. Is that bad? I'm not ususally thinking of it in my grain storage category.

[TxMex]

I store wheat and corn in their whole dried form. White flour and a 7 grain meal(hot cereal) and rolled oats are the other grains that I store.

[joseph97297]

We keep a supply of all-purpose on hand as kids in our daughter's classroom and fellow teachers of my wife aren't "into" the fresh ground wheat cookies or whatnot, so when I make things like that or cinnamon rolls for others, AP store bought gets used.

We are heading up to breadbeckers this weekend to pick up some more wheat and rye with a bucket or two of buckwheat.

[Pelenaka]

Refined

White flour - pie making combined with ww for us, for bartering then straight white.
White Bread flour - pizza making for us combined with ww.
Vital Wheat Gluten
Farnia - bad for my sugar but I'm Puerto Rican so used as a treat
Tapicoa - both in pearl & flour for pie making & cooking.
White Rice - for company & to be used when we have to give someone food preps.

Refined Dairy based
Powdered Buttermilk - baking.
Powdered nonfat milk - baking & cooking.
Powdered whole fat milk - drinking.


~~ pelenaka ~~

[Ohio dreamer]

We store these but in smaller quantities. I was able to get whole wheat flour for the same price as wheat berries last year so I did. We use that for cookies and such treats, where we aren't worried about the missing nutrition, fiber only is enough. For bread I still use the fresh ground flour as that is part of our meal.

[andabigmac]

I know that tapioca and arrowroot aren't technically grains but they take the place of grain thickeners so I included them. Everything else I grind or flake myself.

[belladulcinea]

We use and store unbleached flour.

Back to the top with this one!

I'm a little surprised at how many folks are storing whole-wheat flour. Time to get a mill and make your own! You'll get better flour and the wheat berries will store decades longer than store bought!

I was expecting rolled oats to come in first since white rice is in the whole grains poll. I'm a little surprised the grain thickeners are coming in second though. Another future thread topic I can see.

I keep a fair amount of rolled and steel cuts oats myself. I use the oats in the regular bread I make. I keep a small amount of all-purpose white flour for those things that I don't like to make with whole-wheat. And a fair amount of pasta though for the last year or so I've been drawing that down to free up the space.

Let's have some more input! We have a LOT of lurkers in this part of the board. Here's your chance to communicate without giving yourself away!

[Cyngbaeld]

I use corn starch and tapioca (not really a grain), otherwise no preground or processed grains. I prefer to store whole grains and grind them myself.

[Tracy Rimmer]

In addition to some all-purpose flour (which is used for pie crusts and tortilla, and not much else), I do store oatmeal, but I also store couscous.

[Txsteader]

In addition to AP flour, corn meal, oats, etc., I also store pearl barley, so included that under 'other'.

Made some beef and barley soup today, as a matter of fact.

[Jerngen]

Originally Posted by A.T. Hagan

I'm a little surprised at how many folks are storing whole-wheat flour. Time to get a mill and make your own! You'll get better flour and the wheat berries will store decades longer than store bought!

Every year for the past four years we keep hoping we'll be able to afford a mill.
Perhaps next year.

(also watch yard sales, thrift stores, and auctions hoping to find one cheap but have never seen one)