[Sca-cooks] [OOP] KitchenAid question

[Micheal]

 Greetings
 A grinder is not the best machine for making nut butters. Nut butter 
requires additional oil powder nuts or seeds require  the oil to be removed
 The problem for powdered nuts or seeds is moisture it is best to dry what 
ever seed your using as much as possible. Either through baking or toasting 
them first. Start with coarse plates then work down to finer ones. Pay 
strict attention to your machine . If it binds , stop immediately clear the 
worm and plates and start again . Slow feeding is better then fast, be very 
careful to not over feed. Simply avoid putting more in then your machine can 
handle. A few times of having to clear the internals will teach you a lot.
 In making a nut butter a food processor is actually better because you can 
control the amount of oil being added by sight.
 Da

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Volker Bach" <carlton_bach at yahoo.de>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 7:03 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] [OOP] KitchenAid question


> Hi
>
> I assume that a collection of such avid cooks as you will include a number 
> of
> KitchenAid owners who can help me here. I was given the full set of fruit
> press, veggie grater and meat grinder attachments by my mother (insert 
> happy
> hamster dance), and I'm wondering if either the grinder or the grater are
> suitable for making nut butter / almond paste. Will the grinder stand up 
> to
> being fed almonds? Peanuts? Sesame seeds? Is the grater disc fine enough 
> to
> powder almonds?
>
> Any advice appreciated
>
> Giano
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ___________________________________________________________
> Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de
> _______________________________________________
> Sca-cooks mailing list
> Sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/sca-cooks