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[venta]

Things I learned last night: do not, on any account, attempt to make fresh breadcrumbs in a motor-driven meat grinder.

No good will come of it.

Comments

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

For fresh breadcrumbs, you need something like a liquidizer -- basically a chopping blade with plenty of air space around it, to avoid the compaction effect.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Indeed - I used to have a blender unit which had its own mini-grinder that fitted on in place of the jug and that was great for breadcrumbs.

My current blender appears to have too much airspace and just bounces bread crusts about. Which is pretty and frolicsome, but ultimately not that useful.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Would it work if you ground twice as much bread as required, so as to fill up the airspace a bit better, and put the leftover in the freezer for future use?

(Unless your freezer's too small to store such things, which I guess it might be given the above comment…)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Sadly no, it wouldn't.

I've tried things like that, and what happens is I end up with a blender full of stationary bread while the bit immediately round the blades becomes crumbs. The blades then rotate pointlessly in the space they've created.

Obviously I can squash the contents down and repeat, pausing every so often to excavate the crumbs, but to be honest, it's pretty much more faff than doing it any other way.