"The joy of motherhood comes in moments. Live in the moment."
~M. Russell Ballard
~M. Russell Ballard
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Whole Wheat Surprise
For those of you who don't know, I grind wheat and make homemade bread pretty much on a weekly basis. It helps us rotate our wheat, saves us money, and actually tastes really good. Well today I was making a batch of bread for a friend when I realized my white wheat was almost gone. No problem. I have more downstairs. I go and get the 50 lb. monstrosity, lug it up the stairs and proceed to grind some more. As the grinder is going I figured I would empty some of the bag into my 5 gallon pantry buckets to make it more accessible in the future. As I transferred it from the bag to the bucket I realized there were some very non-wheat like particles mixed in with the wheat. Upon closer inspection I realized I was probably staring at what appeared to be decapitated grasshoppers. Dried out, bodyless heads. GAG!!! I sifted through more wheat and sure enough found more and more little heads and presumably body parts of the little creatures. It's okay I told myself. If you didn't see them, you would never know right? The oven gets hot, kills all the germs--little extra protein---no problem. Yeah---I couldn't quite get past the thought. I threw out the flour I had just ground, and thought about washing all the outside grinder parts. However, I realized there was no way to clean the inside working parts of the grinder so what's the point of cleaning the other parts? That's a lot of work. Oh well--I'll just grind a few more batches of clean wheat through it and call it good. So, that's what I did. Bread anyone?
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8 comments:
Oh gross! Better than weevils I guess. I'm glad you decided not to eat the grasshopper heads. Of course nobody else saw it right? JK
Whoa! That is disgusting! Those stories always terrify me. I just know one day I am going to open a can of beans and a rat head is going to flop out or I am going to be drinking a can of soda and a thumb will be bobbing on the surface.
I've heard of weevils in wheat, but never grasshopper heads! Nasty! How do you like your grinder? Max and I are shopping for one. I have 800 pounds of wheat and no way to grind it. I want one that's both electrical and manual but I hear they're not as good, any advice?
I don't blame you! I would have tossed them too. Bugs in my food freaks me out. But I've never heard of grasshoppers! Wow!
That gives me the shivers! I am so sorry...finding bugs in food is the worst!!!
Ewww! That is so disgusting! And not even weevils; giant and gross deceased grasshoppers! EWWW.
Wow!! We have been buying and storing wheat for awhile now trying to get a full years supply for everyone in our family. We are getting pretty close, but our basement is filling up. I have finally decided to pull out the wheat grinder my mother in law gave me 2 years ago for Christmas! I'm so excited to start learning how to bake bread. Do you have any recipes or tips you want to pass along? It's good to know I need to keep an eye out for grasshoppers! That is so gross! I'm really excited about saving money and having freshly baked bread.
Do you use uncle budd's recipe? I am going to try it today.
I need a wheat grinder. Any recommendations on where to get one?
PS. do you remember when I was eating worms in grandpa's dried apples? And those bad boys were LIVE! Yuck!
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