Re: Re: Marilyn.... (or anyone else who owns one ) Maverick grinder question

[Guest guest]

At 12:16 PM 11/25/2008, you wrote:

So are you saying you do not do

almond flour in your Maverick?

No, because, as I said, the cost of the almonds and the cost of the flour

plus shipping were the same in my area.

I don't use blanched almonds,

just the raw almonds. Is that bad?

Are these almonds with the skins on them?

My daughter doesn't seem

to be having a problem with it. I buy them at Costco for $3.33 per pound.

I have a Vita-Mix that gives me what I would call almond meal. It's

grainy. Would love to make her something lighter. Was hoping the Maverick

could grind a finer flour.

If your daughter is OK with it, then I'd say keep on doing what you're

doing. I didn't tolerate almonds with skins. $3.33 a pound is a very good

price for almonds.

Can you share what sort of other

things you use your Maverick for? If you have time, that

is.

Called a mincer in the UK, either a good hand grinder or an electric

grinder is a gift from the Powers That Be. In a hand grinder, get the

kind

with sucker feet that locks down on any flat, smooth surface, rather

than

the kind that clamps to a counter. In an electric grinder, I really

like

the Maverick #5 grinder, with optional fine grinding plate. It's

available

from Meijers as well as

www.piercechefmart.com.

Also recommended by a number of people is a similar grinder made by

Northern Tool. Northern Tool advocates maintain that their grinder

is

superior because it has a reverse on it, comes with a fine grinding

plate,

and the buttons are located on the side. Kenwood makes a mincer

attachment

in the UK; there may be others available which are suitable for

non-North

American electric current.

Why a grinder? Because if you're grinding 6 pounds of nuts to make a

loaf

of bread, a cake, some crackers, and so forth, it can get mighty

tedious

grinding them three-quarters of a cup at a time in a blender or food

processor!

With my Maverick, I can:

* grind nut flour in quantity, using locally available pecans and

walnuts. What I like is having a choice of almond, pecan, or walnut flour

for working with, as it gives me a nice variety.

* grind vegetables for the dogs.

* make chicken salad and other sandwich-type spreads.

* make cranberry sauce, or other berries.

* make apple sauce -- I have a neat gadget that peels and cores the

apple. Then I run it through the grinder on coarse, medium, or fine,

depending on what I want the applesauce for, and then I cook it, with a

bit of honey and cinnamon.

* grind cheaper cuts of meat to make my own sausages. (It comes with a

sausage stuffer, but I'm still learning how to use it for stuffing

casings, but it extrudes a great snacking stick!)

In addition to all this, you can add an optional slicer / salad shredder.

This unit is not as well designed as the grinder itself, which is very

easy to clean. However, it's extremely quick at grating cheese. Since I

am a cheese fiend, I typically buy, grate, and bag in one pound bags,

around 16 pounds of cheddar at once, then grate lots of parmesan, and bag

it, all in the sizes I usually use. Then I only have to clean the grater

once a month.

So that's MY recomendation for " gadget of the month " .

—

Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

Marilyn,

* make apple sauce -- I have a neat gadget that peels and cores the

apple. What gadget is that?Thanks,Kim H.

[Guest guest]

http://www.nextag.com/apple-peeler-corer/search-html

Re: Re: Marilyn.... (or anyone else who owns one ) Maverick grinder question

Marilyn,

* make apple sauce -- I have a neat gadget that peels and cores the apple. What gadget is that?Thanks,Kim H.

[Guest guest]

Kim,

It's similar to this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Back-Basics-Apple-Potato-Peeler/dp/B0000DE2SS

or

http://tinyurl.com/6htthj

except that I believe I got mine from Cooking.Com, and it was all

metal.

It's also super for making even apple slices which can be dehydrated for

snacks.

—

Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

Thanks!To: BTVC-SCD Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:22:05 PMSubject: Re: Re: Marilyn.... (or anyone else who owns one ) Maverick grinder question

Kim,

It's similar to this one:

http://www.amazon. com/Back- Basics-Apple- Potato-Peeler/ dp/B0000DE2SS

or

http://tinyurl. com/6htthj

except that I believe I got mine from Cooking.Com, and it was all

metal.

It's also super for making even apple slices which can be dehydrated for

snacks.

—

Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund