April 6, 2022 - 9:11am
Cutting rye berries into "rye chops."
The Furi Froggy, from Rachael Ray, was on close-out a few years ago at the Tuesday Morning store. Only $10! Normally $40. Shoulda bought 2!
I finally found a use for it.
Those blades are sharp! I cut myself while cleaning it.
In a deep 9 quart bowl, to keep the pieces from flying out as they are cut:
Pieces are not even. I need to go back, pick out the whole kernals, and cut just the whole ones.
Sifted with a coarse sieve:
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I didn't know such a tool existed. I like it. I use my stone mill set on about 5 1/2 to make cracked rye for the 5 grain levain loaf, but to get 29-grams I need 38-grams of rye berries after I pass it through a #40 mesh sieve. This tool would be easier without excess.
Gavin
EDIT: My wife just reminded me that we have a double blade mezzaluna of chopping herbs. I'll have to give it a try.
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a stick mixer? Dry?
Haven't tried that. I don't have one. But you inspire me to lightly moisten the berries first, like when making them into flakes. That may help prevent the pieces from shooting off in various directions.
That thing looks like a ninja weapon! I like to sprout the whole berries first (it only takes a day or two) they are much easier to chop when softened. They taste a little sweeter and I am assuming they are more nutritious beside being much easier on the blade(s).
Another great idea. If I'm going to get them wet anyway, might as well.
So how well or poorly would a food processor work to make rye chops?
Benny, my understanding is that "chops" are cut pieces of grain as opposed to smashed or cracked. Neither a blender's nor a food processor's blades are sharp enough to slice/cut into the kernals as a kiife would. In those machines, the blades impact the kernals in mid-air, and don't get close enough to how a knife cuts into something against a hard surface.
I think rye chops are like steel cut oats, which are neither flakes nor coarsely ground oats. They may taste the same, but they make for a different texture in the final product.
I can get pretty large "chunks" after running whole dry rye berries through my hand cranked roller mill. But they more or less "shatter", creating irregularly shaped and sized pieces, along with a lot of fines. And a lot of separation of bran occurs.
OK got it, so not so well.