March 31, 2018 - 9:25pm
Different rye grinds
I'm a newbie at baking with rye and milling at home. Many recipes call for things like rye meal or coarse rye meal or rye chops and since I don't know what these things look like, I can't adjust my mill appropriately. I'm hoping someone can point me at (or post) pictures of these different grinds.
Thanks and happy baking.
Len
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Here's a quick primer on types of rye flour: http://theryebaker.com/rye-flour/ . As far as adjustment is concerned people would need to know the type of mill you have to offer advice on adjustment or settings. In the end it will probably be trial and error. I believe Ginsberg regularly posts on this site.
That is exactly what I've been looking for. I've got a MockMill KitchenAid attachment (which I love) and it looks like what I call flour is my finest setting, medium meal is 4th from finest, while coarse meal is 4th from coarsest. Beyond coarsest lives rye porridge. Everything is whole grain in my world, authenticity be damned.
Works for me. Twelve settings is more than I can handle.
Once again, many thanks and happy baking from another old guy.
Len
Glad it helped. I've got the KA MockMill too and really like it. 'Authenticity' is for re-enactors - I'm just a guy who likes to eat and eat well. And right now I'm up to my eyeballs in Easter candy and trying to figure out if you can make a sandwich out of Cadbury eggs.
and thinly sliced Cadbury egg. Try it, you’ll like it!
Seriously though, there is such a thing as a chocolate sandwich. French kids, including me, still love them. I did get quite a few funny looks at lunch time when I hauled mine out to eat (raised in Canada but with French immigrant parents) but I didn’t care. It was worth the strange looks.
Basically, bread, butter and either a bar of pure milk chocolate or dark chocolate. Yum!!!
Ohhh! That's grand. I wonder how it would be grilled?
Oh I am going to have try that!
In practice, if you plan to use your rye as a flour, and not, say, in a soaker, the finer the grind, the better the bread will come out. So I'd say grind at smallest setting you can that allows for a reasonable milling speed.