Bob wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2005 10:19:36 -0400, Chad Gould
> > wrote:
> >Given that the cassava root, a plant that contains a bit more
cyanide
> >ppm when mature, is consumed just fine via simple techniques like
> >toasting or fermentation, I'd speculate that the levels of cyanide
one
> >is talking about in sorghum beer are so minimal as to actually be a
> >nutrient.
> You are giving advice that could kill someone.
> A knowledgeable user (and that includes those who have routinely
> handled, say, cassava over generations and learned how) will deal
with
> it. A naive user may or may not; advising them that it is not a
> problem is unwise, and dangerous.

If one makes a post like "you can preserve foods by canning at home,
the risk of botulism can be minimalized with proper techniques such as
a boiling water bath, etc.", I suppose that too is advice that could
kill someone? *shrug*

I guess that's good, because if you are stupid enough *not* to look up
the basic techniques of throughly cooking / soaking / sun-drying /
fermenting / etc. cassava, and/or knowing what types of food can be
canned with a water bath and what needs pressure cooker canning... you
deserve that painful / deadly lesson. Darwinism works, right?

Methinks the multiple amount of newsgroups, anyways, are causing many
people to go way off topic. The original poster did not mention malted
sorghum at all, however because this was posted in a beer-brewing
newsgroup along with a chemistry newsgroup and a cooking newsgroup, it
somewhat strayed towards gluten-free brewing substances. The main point
was that the cyanide in malted sorghum is insignificant especially
after doing all you do with malted sorghum for brewing purposes.
Cyanide is also insignificant in properly prepared cassava (as plenty
of tapioca pudding lovers can attest). Raw sorghum shoots and raw
cassava tubers, of course, can poison you. No duh.

As far as the original request, I'll be damned why you actually want to
make glucose syrup via enzyme action, except maybe for your own
chemistry amusement. For consumption, the original poster just should
by a huge jug of corn syrup for cheap, since corn syrup is nearly 100%
glucose syrup to begin with.