Looking for a good grain mill
 

This season I'm planting some Chimayo chile in the garden. We really
like the flavor and have seeds from an acquaintance who lives in
Chimayo, NM. What I'm looking for are some suggestions for a good
quality mill to grind the dried pods. I know nothing about mills or
how much variation they have in the fineness of the grind. I certainly
don't need flour-fine but certainly much finer than flakes. If
fineness can be adjusted the ability to do flour or cornmeal type
coarseness would be a big plus. If these plants produce well I'll do a
lot of them next year so a mill of some capacity would be very nice.

Thanks,

tf

Looking for a good grain mill
 

On May 22, 7:49*am, wrote:
> This season I'm planting some Chimayo chile in the garden. We really
> like the flavor and have seeds from an acquaintance who lives in
> Chimayo, NM. What I'm looking for are some suggestions for a good
> quality mill to grind the dried pods. I know nothing about mills or
> how much variation they have in the fineness of the grind. I certainly
> don't need flour-fine but certainly much finer than flakes. If
> fineness can be adjusted the ability to do flour or cornmeal type
> coarseness would be a big plus. If these plants produce well I'll do a
> lot of them next year so a mill of some capacity would be very nice.
>
> Thanks,
>
> tf

Maybe a mortar & pestle?

Looking for a good grain mill
 

> wrote in message
...
> This season I'm planting some Chimayo chile in the garden. We really
> like the flavor and have seeds from an acquaintance who lives in
> Chimayo, NM. What I'm looking for are some suggestions for a good
> quality mill to grind the dried pods. I know nothing about mills or
> how much variation they have in the fineness of the grind. I certainly
> don't need flour-fine but certainly much finer than flakes. If
> fineness can be adjusted the ability to do flour or cornmeal type
> coarseness would be a big plus. If these plants produce well I'll do a
> lot of them next year so a mill of some capacity would be very nice.
>
> Thanks,
>
> tf

go online and look at theurbanhomemaker.com. They have a lot of good items
and have detailed instructions on what works best on what materials...Gives
you an idea of what you'll get if you buy it.
-ginny

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"Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote in message
...
>
> > wrote in message
> ...
>> This season I'm planting some Chimayo chile in the garden. We really
>> like the flavor and have seeds from an acquaintance who lives in
>> Chimayo, NM. What I'm looking for are some suggestions for a good
>> quality mill to grind the dried pods. I know nothing about mills or
>> how much variation they have in the fineness of the grind. I certainly
>> don't need flour-fine but certainly much finer than flakes. If
>> fineness can be adjusted the ability to do flour or cornmeal type
>> coarseness would be a big plus. If these plants produce well I'll do a
>> lot of them next year so a mill of some capacity would be very nice.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> tf
>
> go online and look at theurbanhomemaker.com. They have a lot of good
> items and have detailed instructions on what works best on what
> materials...Gives you an idea of what you'll get if you buy it.
> -ginny
>
>

A few years ago I had a bumper crop of super hot jalopenos. Many I pickled,
the rest I threaded with a sewing needle onto white cotton thread, tied them
into leis and hung them in my kitchen (very decorative). About 4 months
passed and they were dry. The stems pulled off easily. I tried placing
them in a zip-loc and going at them with a rolling pin, no way. I tried my
meat grinder, the fiery hot dust made my kitchen into a gas chamber.
Finally I placed a couple cupfuls at a time into my Oster blender with the
glass container... pulsed until the consistancy I wanted, let the dust in
the container settle, and carefully poured my perfectly ground peppers into
a jar... repeated in batches until I had about a quart.... I still have more
than 3/4 left and most of what's missing is what I gave to my neighbor... he
even admits it's almost too hot for him and he says he loves hot pepper.
This is about three times hotter than the crushed pepper folks sprinkle on
pizza so it'll be a long time before I use it up. I don't think I'd try
this in a food processor or blender with a plastic container, dried pepper
is fairly abrasive.

Looking for a good grain mill