Can you easily dry and store sweet corn?

[Al Gerhart]

Corn is a great storage item for if the SHTF. Stores forever in a five gallon bucket with a tight lid IF you freeze it for a week before storing, you can plant it, eat it as hominy, grind it for corn bread or grind it fine for tortillas and chips, feed chickens or cows, barter with it or sell it, even turn it into moonshine if the pesky feds no longer had the time to mess with you.

Dirt cheap too. A great way to prepare if you are on a budget and you can cycle it as it can be an everyday item you already need.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

Corn is a great storage item for if the SHTF. Stores forever in a five gallon bucket with a tight lid IF you freeze it for a week before storing, you can plant it, eat it as hominy, grind it for corn bread or grind it fine for tortillas and chips, feed chickens or cows, barter with it or sell it, even turn it into moonshine if the pesky feds no longer had the time to mess with you.

This is purely academic for me as I don’t have the space to grow it, but: how well does sweet corn grind? I gather it doesn’t pop, MIGardener did a video on it:

 

[Al Gerhart]

Normally they would grind dent corn but sweet corn will grind just as well.

People forget that the Lord's Prayer when it talks about "...give us our daily bread..." they were talking about corn bread hear in the U.S., not wheat bread, at least during colonial times . Overseas, most likely wheat bread from the first century onward when the prayer was first recorded.

 

[Al Gerhart]

But, I was talking about dent corn, not sweet corn in the post you referred to. I've ground my own cornmeal before, so much better than store bought cornmeal.

 

[Ridgerunner]

This is purely academic for me as I don’t have the space to grow it, but: how well does sweet corn grind?

Interesting question. I have not tried grinding sweet corn so I have no direct experienced. My concern would be that the high sugar content might make it gummy, especially if it is not dried out really well.

 

[Al Gerhart]

Even sweet corn is only 3% sugar. The starch/carbs would create more issues with grinding. Most of the other cereals are closer to 1% but that is still dwarfed by the starches. School time glue for crafts was flour and water, aka high starch.

 

[Al Gerhart]

Ridgerunner, I bet the old still operators know about this better than most. Any moonshiners still left? Haven't had any in Oklahoma in decades.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Ridgerunner, I bet the old still operators know about this better than most. Any moonshiners still left? Haven't had any in Oklahoma in decades.

None that I'm aware of but I'm sure there are plenty of "hobbyists" around.

There were six boys in Dad's family. One, the baby, did not make moonshine. One of his brothers spent 3 months in jail when he got caught. Dad was very proud of the quality of moonshine he made, none of that rotgut from him. But he never passed down any of his secrets to me.

 

[Penpal]

You can make your own moonshine. You just can't sell it.