burr mill


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burr mill

[′bər ‚mil]
(food engineering)
A mill for grinding crops, in which two ribbed plates or disks rub or crush the material between them.
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Rural Zimbabwe's peanut butter groups that adopted the manual Omega increased the amount of peanuts processed each day from four kilograms via traditional methods to around 50 kilograms of peanuts per day with the manually operated burr mill.
Appropriate to the people: a simple technology created for, but not by, the people can't leap too far ahead
Any mill on the market can produce flour of varying coarseness, but if you want to crack your grains for grits, or mill oily grains, seeds, and beans, you need a burr mill. Even then, some burr mills do not accommodate oily grains, because they are sealed and cannot be cleaned after use.
The GrainMaker, manufactured by Bitterroot Tool & Machine of Montana, is another burr mill. The basic model weighs in at 25 pounds and measures a little more than 13 inches tall.
Milling about: take your baking a step further with a home grain mill that produces delicious flour
Left: This 2-hp 1912 Reeves stationary gasoline engine provides belt power for Fred Nason's stone burr mill.
Farm days are here again: new Hampshire farm museum celebrates new England's agrarian heritage
Fred made a screen for Ed's burr mill, to separate the finer meal for cooking from the more coarse meal, for livestock or wild bird feed.
Out of the hills of New England: old iron rolls into Kent
The January Bowsher burr mill letter brought back memories of the late 1930s.
Burr mill letter triggers 'grinding' memory. (Letters of the Editor)
After 108 years in business, Meadows Mills still manufactures and sells stone burr mills, sawmills and hammer mills from its headquarters in North Wil-kesboro, N.C.
Recreating an 1880s flour mill: bona fide antiques used to bring century-old enterprise back to life
Hit-and-miss engines are used to operate various implements, such as burr mills and pump jacks (even ice cream freezers!); steam traction engines operate separators, gas tractors power corn husker/shredders and shellers.
Tractors put to work: implement display tells complete farm story
Dave and Kristi Martensen enjoy collecting burr mills, small shellers and stationary engines, and they combine them all into a fine working exhibit.
Full steam ahead: South Dakota show features pioneer power
Cattle stanchions, seed corn graders and burr mills. The intricate mechanical devices that once filled barns to the rafters are nearly lost to time, forgotten or discarded.
Barn on wheels: Iowa family's show display teaches lessons of old-time farming
Second, because all his engines actually run, he likes to have them working at shows, hooked up to pump jacks or burr mills or corn shellers.
Building a collection from the ground up: Minnesota man zeroes in on upright engines
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