This is so informative. You’ve spent a lot of time learning this and what you’ve packed in here is not only comprehensive but also invaluable. Thank you for doing this work. Too bad you’re not single. Ha. I would like to watch this again and again taking notes, the practice myself then use it so I can make a demonstration with teenaged girls at church church and at the inner city mission where I volunteer with young ladies. What I appreciate is just how much info you’ve included here for me ti do that in one video. Typically when I go to share fermenting or sour dough making or grain milling or pasta making with these girls it takes so much time collecting books and watching countless videos ti get ready. So that you. You saved me not only time which I seem to have less of as I age but also money. Thank you.

You can pick up a Corona corn mill for about $20. 40 years ago, every house in rural Mexico had a wooden bench with a Corona mill mounted on it, and a flat stone and stone sestal for the final grind. In dry areas, it was common for the chickens to do the clean up, to save water.

Thank you you I have a meet grinder and I was on the process to purchase a corn mill You save me some money! Thank you so much!

Nice to know people are interested in this outside of the native communities of this great and wonderful land between the two waters. YOu brought back memories for which I thank you very much. As a child in Honduras, I used to help with the grinding. We used Maíz which is the big grains (dent or flint corn) mixed with Maizillo (popcorn) at a ration of about 2 parts dent to 1 part popcorn. We would then take that wonderful masa, make our tortillas and use a metal plate suspended over an open fire to heat them into proper tortillas. It was amazing! You make me want to go out and buy some corn and make this. Be well!

hola vivo en México y ud hizo la tecnica d nixtamalizado muy bien. gracias a la tortilla y a la cal q se le agrega los niños en mexico no tienen sus pies chuecos ya q aporta el calcio necesario. lo felicito lo unico q yo haria no enjuagar mucho cuando esta cocido ya q le quita la cal absorvida solo un enjuague rapido y ya felicitaciones .

That was intense and very comprehensive. I learned a lot. Thank you for doing this video.

thank you sooo much! i'm asian and i LOVE making tamales! i wanted to learn how to make masa tamales from scratch so i could experiment with different corn flavors!! couldn't find a video anywhere!! also loved that your video had science and history facts!! people should learn these old ways... too much reliance on prepackaged everything.

Thank you so much for this there are just no demonstrations of this anywhere. You deserve a million views. Thanks

Great video. I have the hand grinder for a non-electric option but using a meat grinder will be great for more regular use. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much for this information. I had no idea so much work went into preparing corn. I'm really impressed with your Bosch meat grinder.

masa instructable turned Bosch advertisment lol..... great video

That's what I needed to know. Thanks........= )

About the pellagra, in the fantastic book about North Korea, Nothing to Envy, the author tells of the fact that for many north Koreans, cornmeal had replaced rice in their diets and during the famine, many of them got the majority of their calories from cornmeal. However, because they didn't process it correctly, they began suffering shockingly high rates of pellagra. It's a fantastic book and I recommend it to all preppers.

This is great. Thank you for sharing this.

Well explained thanks

To get the rest of your corn out through the grinding plate use 3 to four ice cubes at the end of the grind. I just made my first batch of tamales from scratch and I used hominy in the 5 pound can already processed I believe it was old hicory corn as the kernels were as big as chi peas. I had to add only about a quarter cup of water before makjng my masa.

Thank you, excellent video! Can you pickel it in a ceramic bowl....

Thank you

Can you get it fine enough to make a reasonable Mexican style corn tortilla using a meat grinder or is it only suitable as a tamale dough?

Thanks for the knowledge! Side note im pretty high right now and your video editing kinda messed with me a tad. So also very entertaining.

Is your machine able to grind wheat? My kitchen aid mixer, with the wheat attachment, fell apart after a couple of weeks of grinding (2-3 grinds a week) wheat. A machine that can do only one thing is not good.

Good demonstration! Thank you! However a little frustrating when the whole beginning process repeats itself.

Could you do this with other grains and legumes/beans?

So yeh the editing got twisted around, but the ideas are great Thanks

Very informative. Odd editing, however, good infomercial for Bosch,..

I am a Mexican anthropologist cook. The process was discovered in Mesoamerica (Mexico) NOT by the Incas as you suggest.

Is this regular popcorn corn?

Com'n, give the man a brake! Comment on the good things! He may not have that much experience editing, so, how about gently suggesting at the end?!

He has a Bosch. You know he means business.

This guy just wanted to show off his new grinderrrrrr.

very educational thank you. you might want to re-edit this.

Is it similar to the corn i used to make popcorns?

Can you use a food processor to grind it too, or would it make the dough too gummy?

can u imagine now ! how fast we will ran out of fresh water, even the corn have to take shower.

good

Would have been a good video if there wasn't so much information missing. Video went form whole corn going in the grinder to a bowl full of dough. Possibly some editing mistakes.

You need to edit this video. You have the same clip twice of you pouring the quart of dent corn to be rinsed into your iron pan.

What other body part could possibly get caught in a meat grinder other than fingers? Ok there are other other possibilties, I guess.

Send everyone to the movies and turn down the phones on the next video please...

Polenta is not nixtamalized. Polenta is made from simple corn meal.

Such a thorough demonstration of the process, but why would you cut the video together out of sequence? Repeating the first 4 minutes of the video. So much opportunity for success here.

The ones who discovered nixtamalization were mayas ancient guatemalan civilization and i can tell about it because i am from guatemala and i live there.

I use my food processor.

Too much Lime and too much washing. 1 to 1 1/2% lime to corn and rinse but don't agitate - keep at least 50% of the skins and grind them along with the kernels. in Oaxaca they rinse all the lime away, in most other parts of Mexico they like a little lime in the Masa. Over working the grain while rinsing makes for weak tortillas that cannot be turned after only 30 seconds, first side.

a paperclip or a piece of....*video ends* :

This video could have been shortened to 6 minutes.

Thank You for the great info here. But the editing was atrocious. You might want to actually watch your videos after you edit them to make sure they aren't out of order. :)

And you cant say tamale its tamal, tamal is the right way to say it.

The corn was not cooked as it should be, the screen he used was too fine and a meat grinder, electric or manual is not the right grinder for tortilla o tamales masa. the idea is to obtain a white masa with very fine texture. Other than that it is a nice video.

oh my god Editing, did u even watch the finish product before uploading it? i mean your cuts where every where from the very start to the very end... informative yes very and i enjoyed learning but holy smoke edit better...

The Aztecs and really all North American Natives used calcium hydroxide (lime) or ashes which have alkaline. I don’t know about South America, because Venezuelan arepas don’t use it.

do u know how to make a taco, not tortilla? I'm wanting a taco recipe. Thank You!

Too bad the People talking in the background ruined Your video.

That person talking in the background during your entire video is HIGHLY annoying!

Good info crappy editing

Is there a TV on in the background? It is very annoying. Maybe film the video and narrate it later? You seem out of breath and rambling the whole time.

You should say, “when the colonizers came they didn’t listen or pay attention to the Indigenous people on how to use corn.”

many people talking. very disturbing!

You should re-edit your video so that you don't duplicate the first 7 minutes and don't present the rest of the process out of sequence. Weird.

that's gonna ruin your cast iron!

Many borring

Thank you