If you are looking for the best quality corn, of various types, look no further than racing pigeon feed. No joke. The Cribbs maize (dried naturally, in the field, on the plant for 6 months, carefully protected with nets) is untreated in any way. Lots of seed maize has either a pesticide to prevent animals eating the seed, or is of general low quality/selection. Chicken feed is (generally ...
Re: Maize vs cracked corn by DuckofDeath » Wed 3:51 pm Flaked is much easier to work with, but its much more expensive. It is also usually de-germed, so your yield per pound will be slightly higher. 4 posts Page 1 of 1 Return to “Mashing and Fermenting”
A sack of feed (cracked) corn from your farm animal feed store cost between $8 & $10. With a sack of flaked maize (corn) at the home brew store costing between 75 cents to $1 per pound, it's easy to see the acquisition cost advantage of the farm store corn. But, as noted, cracked corn will need to be gelatinized to release its starch whereas the flaked corn has already been gelatinized for you ...
Re: Corn. Cracked, vs Flaked Maize by corene1 » Fri 3:34 am I have used both and there is just a very slight improvement from flaked maize to ground corn as far as usable starch is concerned but hardly measurable though. What you do get is ease of preparation as the flaked maize does not require the long cook to release the starches.
Corn meal Vs's Flaked maize by RidgeRunner » Thu 5:29 pm I have been using flaked Maize in my straight corn recipe 8lb of it and I was told the other day that cornmeal could be used instead. have any of you folks used cormeal in place of cracked corn or flaked maize and if so would it still be only 8lb. Thanks RidgeRunner