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walkitoutI buy grain. I do know that this is a little weird. I own a flour mill (my second) and I use it every single day that I am at home. Sometimes more than once. So, I buy grin to put in the flour mill. I buy soft white from Amazon; the supplier is in the Palouse and tracks the crap out of their grain and process it themselves. I buy soft red (the same as goes into Lily flour, like for Southern biscuits) and Turkey red (a hard red) from Brian Severson Farms, usually from their website (I think my original order with them might have been via Amazon). Recently, I ran low on flaked oatmeal, which I use more or less exclusively for crisp topping these days (so it is almost immortal but does occasionally need to be replenished), and rather than buy Quaker Oats again, I thought hey! Let’s see what the Good Stuff is like! While I was there, I ordered some other things. Anyway.
“With the war going on, many new customers are buying grains for long term storage. The moisture of our grains are ideal for milling and appropriate for short term storage (1 year) If you are planning on storing our grains for years or decades they probably should be dried a bit more to prevent mold from developing over time. Please contact us if you are unsure about this aspect of our grains.”
That’s a new paragraph, vs my last order placed in 2021. I’m not surprised — I had been wondering if I was going to be up against supply issues, but wasn’t hugely concerned about it because buying whole grain is pretty weird, and most people are just not up for that. You have to adapt recipes and so forth. Still, it was interesting to see it.
“With the war going on, many new customers are buying grains for long term storage. The moisture of our grains are ideal for milling and appropriate for short term storage (1 year) If you are planning on storing our grains for years or decades they probably should be dried a bit more to prevent mold from developing over time. Please contact us if you are unsure about this aspect of our grains.”
That’s a new paragraph, vs my last order placed in 2021. I’m not surprised — I had been wondering if I was going to be up against supply issues, but wasn’t hugely concerned about it because buying whole grain is pretty weird, and most people are just not up for that. You have to adapt recipes and so forth. Still, it was interesting to see it.