We called it making hominy on my mom’s Indian reservation. Take a large plastic garbage can or whiskey barrel and put a peacock on the bottom. Put 6 to 8 inches of dry straw in the bottom and then we used hardwood ash. Put lots of it in. Let it fill up with rainwater and let it sit. You end up with lye water. Yeah that to the water you boil your dried corn in. You could use that corn after it was rinsed right away and soups or stews or for storage we put it on wire racks and dried it in the sun. We didn’t use it for animal food for sure, but had never thought about doing that.
It's possible, but the downside to the nixtamalization is that it does allow (at least in our climate) for fermentation once rinsed. So it doesn't keep as well as I had hoped, but also has to be rinsed well before feeding. I haven't figured out a larger scale, since we don't really need it at this point - but might have to one day!
Good video, we learned how to Nixtalize corn to make corn tortillas in Mexico and they’re better than anything I’ve ever had in the US. I never even liked corn tortillas before that. Video idea, maybe you could do the whole process and then make some corn tortillas and show how they puff up versus the non-nixtalized cornmeal that you get in the US.
Definitely want to try this!
very interesting information...thank you
Interesting information, thank you for sharing it♥
We called it making hominy on my mom’s Indian reservation. Take a large plastic garbage can or whiskey barrel and put a peacock on the bottom. Put 6 to 8 inches of dry straw in the bottom and then we used hardwood ash. Put lots of it in. Let it fill up with rainwater and let it sit. You end up with lye water. Yeah that to the water you boil your dried corn in. You could use that corn after it was rinsed right away and soups or stews or for storage we put it on wire racks and dried it in the sun. We didn’t use it for animal food for sure, but had never thought about doing that.
Hey thats good info! What was the toothpaste you talked about a while ago, that builds up the teeth? Cant find it anymore :(
I'm always thinking how to scale up. 55 gal drum, gravity feed into trough system, feeding multiple species, fowl and livestock?
It's possible, but the downside to the nixtamalization is that it does allow (at least in our climate) for fermentation once rinsed. So it doesn't keep as well as I had hoped, but also has to be rinsed well before feeding. I haven't figured out a larger scale, since we don't really need it at this point - but might have to one day!
Good video, we learned how to Nixtalize corn to make corn tortillas in Mexico and they’re better than anything I’ve ever had in the US. I never even liked corn tortillas before that.
Video idea, maybe you could do the whole process and then make some corn tortillas and show how they puff up versus the non-nixtalized cornmeal that you get in the US.