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Suppose I wanted to carve a millstone to make my own flour. What would be the best stone to use? Should I go animal/human powered or should I try to make a windmill?
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You can DIY a simple flour mill out of wood or metal. The kind that is just a wooden or metal wheel with a handle through the middle and a trough to hold the grain is easy enough. Or you could get a 'modern' flour mill like picture related.
If you absolutely won't use anything but stone then I would probably use a high quality basalt. That is what they used back in the day.
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You can get an electric grain mill for a few hundred dollars which will work far better than an old style stone mill, which will work faster and have the added benefit of not adding stone particulates to your flour.
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>>2972367
Well that's good because I have kernels of corn the size of your fist... Kek!
I've been toying around with the idea of getting one of those pelletizer grinders for making food pellets for livestock. Probably not actually practical but could be fun...
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>>2972376
I bought a meat grinder off the internet once. Stupid me didn't really think to look at the dimensions because I've only ever seen them be a standard size. When it got here it looked like a toy. You could make grind up a half a chicken breast at a time.
I considered it a lesson learned and threw it away.