WHEAT - growing, harvesting, processing, and making bread

All right .

I'm going old school .

I'm gonna harvest with the sides .

Now , believe it or not , the easy part was growing this , harvesting it and drying it .

Now , what you wanna do is try to get the wheat berry out from the chaff .

This is the wheat berry .

This is the chaff .

Sure .

It looked easy , right .

You'd say , well , go ahead and do that .

Just do it like this .

You know how long that would take .

So what I did originally was thresh it .

I showed that in another video , but I just invented this .

Let's check it out .

Keep in mind I showed in a previous video how to do this completely primitively , but I got a lot of wheat to go through .

So I took an old electric weed trimmer that I had for like 20 years and I wasn't using it .

I cut it apart because I need something to go in the barrel straight up and down and whip around .

So I completely reconfigured the head underneath this duct tape , there's all sorts of screws and bolts and everything .

And I replaced the line because the first time I tried it , the line was too thin .

I replaced this actually with a cable tie that's bead type .

So let me show you how this works .

The weak head , the soft , you see where I'm going with this .

Yeah .

All right .

Maceration complete .

Now , to the next step .

Now this is actually a drum .

I already bodged together for honey extraction .

It's got four inch hardware cloth .

I'm going to use that as a primary strainer .

All right .

Notice I got the fan blowing .

That'll help blow some of the chap away .

All right .

So again , the wheat berries are gonna be smaller and heavier .

So they're gonna fall through and then all this light stuff .

I'm gonna feed you the goats .

Now , I know there's a couple of seed heads in there .

Trust me , this is gonna be awesome when you see the final product .

Ok ?

And we got a little more razzle dazzle .

All right .

It is 100 degrees literally outside today .

It's a big heat wave , South Carolina in May .

So I figured why not go ahead and exert yourself out in the midday and make some bread .

Ok .

So that's all done .

Now , trust me , there's not a lot of wheat berries left in this .

This is where the wheat berries are , but where are they ?

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Now , this isn't normal modern day bread .

It's a very dense whole wheat bread .

But man , I feel accomplished .