About This Blog and Myself:
In brief, this blog is about my journey to becoming self-sufficient. I learn how to grow my own food, harvest rainwater, compost, live as much off the grid as I can, etc. I also want this to be a resource for others, as I have done lots of research on this topic and have several links for more info. Join me!
And who am I? What I will say is I am a single, 40-something Central Texas woman who can’t believe that she’s in her forties and thinks she’s really 28 on her most mature days. I live in a little-cottage type house in South Austin, Texas with my two kitty babies, Kuan and Ananda.
My Goal in Life, or if you will, My Mission Statement for Life:
I want to be a mystic artist/poet and craftsperson, self-sufficientist, blogging fool, master urban farm girl, loving, nonjudgemental and enlightening listener, laugh maker and laugh giver, happy and joyful idiot who loves helping other people become happy and joyful idiots, artful cook, passionate lover of the Divine and all of life and death and all the sentient beings in the universe, and of one special man who shares my interests (who hasn’t knocked on my door yet, but will), avid walker and bicyclist who fully enjoys nature, who fluently speaks and listens to Spanish, who can bellydance like nobody’s business and shakes her booty at any joyful noise to the Lord and Lady of all, who is healthy and wealthy and wise and the greatest duffus the world has ever seen, yet beautiful and elegant and cool as Katherine Hepburn. Dang – and that’s just scratching the surface!!!
Hi
I read in your blog that you had purchased a Wondermill jr. I have red reviews but no customer reviews.
I was wondering if you could share your experience about the mill. Have you tried to making peanut butter ?
To make peanut butter the metal bur is used.
I am looking for a mill to make corn tortilla dough. To do this I would need a grinder that can grind cooked wet corn.
Have you ever tried making corn tortillas from scratch?
I would appreciate any feedback on the mill.
Thank You
Anna
Hi Anna,
Many, many apologies for not responding to your post sooner. I think I partly didn’t reply out of shame that I have not, yet, admittedly, even used the dang Wondermill yet — and yes, I have had it for almost a whole dadgum year
. So I think subconsciously I put off replying because of that. But here I will fully admit that no, I haven’t used it — not for peanut butter, not for corn tortilla dough, nor for wheat tortilla dough, not even for whole wheat flour, nothing, nada, zip. I’m afraid my urge for self-sufficiency hit both my inherent laziness and the realities of modern life — I have an 8 to 5 job that takes me an hour to get to and an hour back in Austin rush-hour traffic by city bus, and by the time ya factor in that, feeding the cats, making dinner, eating dinner, cleaning up after dinner, nosing around a little in the garden, taking out the trash, bringing in the trash, doing some laundry, going to the grocery store, attending to personal relationships, yada, yada, there’s little time to mess with my lovely Wondermill, Jr. as much as I would love to do so and wish I’d done before now.
But you didn’t come here for a long-winded and whiney excuse as to why I’ve neither replied nor even used my Wondermill, Jr.; you came here to see if someone who personally owns a Wondermill, Jr. has used it and can recommend it, and sadly I have to say I have one and have not used it so can neither recommend it nor dis-recommend it. However, Al Durtschi has used one and you can read his experience at http://www.grainmillcomparison.com/2009/07/wondermill-junior-review.html. And he doesn’t recommend it for nut butter or any other kind of oily seed/grain. He has also tested several other mills, so you might want to read about those too on his blog. I don’t know if he will respond to your comments, but you might want to head on over to the blog, read his review and see if he’ll answer your questions.
Again, Anna, my apologies for not answering sooner and for not having used my Wondermill, Jr. to give you a more personal review. But who knows, maybe I’ll dig it out of my closet, dust it off and give ‘er a try in the next few months. But don’t wait on me to do so!
Anyway, thanks fer coming by, giving me a shout and I hope you found something useful, even if it wasn’t my reply to yer comment!
–Zippy