March 23, 2018 - 7:10am
low moisture rye berries
I use a Marathon Uni-mill and its manual cautions me to mill only "low moisture" rye berries, to void gumming up the stones. My rye supplier tells me his rye is dried to 9-11% moisture, but he's unsure what range constitutes "low moisture."
Advice, please? Does anyone mill rye with mill stones?
Should I dehydrate before milling?
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I buy rye berries in 20 kg sacks, and mill them with the stones in my Wondermill Jr. I have no idea what the moisture content of the berries is but it works just fine. Rye is one of the harder grains to mill (the Wondermill Jr. is a manual mill) but I never have trouble with the stones gumming up. Even if I sprout some of them I just let them air dry before milling. Try biting one of the berries. If you can easily bite it in half and it's a bit chewy, it might be too moist for milling. But take care not to break a tooth! If you do, it's probably fine for milling. :)
Thank you, Lazy. I just received 25lb rye and want to get started. I do intend to sprout some and I will use my little dehydrator. I've dried wheat and 12 hours dries it more than before soaking.
Where do you buy rye? I just bought from clnf.org. 25lb for $15 organic.
I did the bite test on the rye I just received. Kinda chewy, so I dehydrated at 105F for 8 hours. Success. The bite test showed harder and brittle, and not at all chewy. It also lost 5.25% in weight. I was told by the supplier that they dried it to 9-11% so it lost half its moisture.
Thanks for your help.
I sprouted some Fife Grains as an experiment since I do sprouting for food, I was shocked how sweet it became, for me sickly sweet like stevia.