Returning to the processing question: particle size!

[walkitout]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852789/

Particle size of almond meal has effects on how it behaves in your gut.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7026359/

Particle size of I think it’s ground cactus has measurable impact on water absorption and bioavailability and so forth.

http://extension.msstate.edu/content/particle-size-important-for-swine-diets

Yes, it is about feeding pigs, and yet, still feels relevant.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.951821/full

Arabinoxylan makes an appearance! I don’t have a lot of opinions about corn, because I’ve read that sourdough doesn’t work on corn (altho reading this, I am wondering a bit, now) so I haven’t made any meaningful attempt to culture it and mess with it. All that aside, did you notice they used 300mesh!?!? I’ll be watching for corn bran in highly processed food products in the future, and I will not be assigning a positive value to corn bran, either.

Hold up here! I have a new game! Find instances of recognizable kitchen equipment being used by scientists in studies listed in PubMed. Here are 2!

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36357208/

KitchenAid blender the Pro 5 Plus.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4025803/

This is actually the first one I found. Cuisinart DLC 7 Pro.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33721304/

This one has several items listed in it as they were trying to figure out if you could improvise sterilization in an “expeditionary environment” using pressure cookers. Nice example of, duh, yes.

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[ethelmay]

The reason I bought my pressure cooker is that one of my daughters was interested in using a pressure cooker for some project involving growing mushrooms where something along the line needed to be sterilized. In the end, she didn't use it for that and I started cooking with it, because why not.

How Perfect Is That!!!

[walkitout]

I love everything about that.