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PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGY - Big Wooden Mortar And Pestle - Corn Meal Gruel

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Since I've wanted to make a big mortar and pestle for some time, I decided to pay tribute to Primitive Technology. Thanks for the write-up on Food Processing Jayman Newell: Hit [cc] at the bottom left of the player in order to get captions! --Guys, I'm not trying to be the real Primitive Technology, ain't nobody got time for that. I couldn't imagine cutting down a tree with a stone axe, dry it for a season or two, burn it, scrape it down and mud it for a week or longer. I used cheats where I could, drilled out the center when I was tired. It still took me 15 hours even with all the cheating. If you want, think of this as a bridge between fantasy and reality. I wanted a big mortar and pestle to grind down corn and at first I thought of all the ways to make it easier, and as it turns out, making coals and blowing and scraping is one of those ways. Unless you have a big lathe, then this is cost effective, but still very time consuming method, every bit as difficult as it seemed and more. The mortar (the hollowed log) took about 3 full days to hollow out, quite deceiving from the video. I tried a number of things to speed it up including boring out the centre with an auger, but fire worked the best. It was still a big process that included a lot of hot coals, a lot of blown oxygen and equal amounts of scraping. In fact, scraping and dumping was nearly a continuous job throughout the 3 days. The pestle (the blunt club) was thankfully nearly ready-made since I found a dry piece of heavy lumber that only required a bit of cutting of some of the branches and a light rounding in order to produce the right shape to pounding into the mortar. The mortar and pestle combination worked surprisingly well together and with a little bit of effort crushed the corn into meal. I boiled the cornmeal for quite a while since I was using a low grade field corn usually fed to cattle which is quite chewy and heavy shelled. The ash from the mortar is a good addition and during cooking helps break down and release more of the nutrients in the corn. Using ash is a common way that Native American's would cook corn. The parching which was done in the cast iron pan helps make the corn brittle and thus turned into meal much faster and with less effort. It really did smell great once crushed, much like popcorn. A flint corn or a popcorn type corn would have been more ideal to use, but isn't readily available in my farming community. I added fresh wild local strawberries and home made maple syrup as well as wild black walnuts saved and dried from the fall. The flavours of all these complimented each other well to produce a corn meal gruel topped with maple syrup, black walnut and wild strawberry. This is not just survival food, this is a staple food Other Primitive Technology Videos Primitive Technology: Wattle and Daub Hut Primitive Technology: Thatched Dome Hut Primitive Technology: Firesticks Primitive Technology: Stone Axe (celt) Primitive Technology: Stone Adze Primitive Technology: Wood shed and Native bee honey Primitive Technology: Palm Thatched Mud Hut Primitive Technology: Tiled Roof Hut Primitive Technology: Chimney and pots Primitive Technology: Sling Primitive Technology: Baskets and stone hatchet Primitive Technology: Bow and Arrow Primitive Technology: Woven bark fiber Primitive Technology: Sweet potato patch Primitive Technology: Barrel Tiled Shed Primitive Technology: Forge Blower Primitive Technology: Spear Thrower Primitive Technology: Freshwater Prawn Trap Primitive Technology: Planting Cassava and Yams Primitive Technology: Termite clay kiln & pottery Primitive Technology: Water powered hammer (Monjolo) Primitive Technology: Reusable charcoal mound
Date: 2021-05-17

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Comments and reviews: 10

trevor
I enjoyed the video, as I had the same thing in mind. I try n live as natural and holistic as possible. I'd do all my cooking on a wood stove. (on the coals) boil my oats, eggs, water for tea. roast chicken, even bake bread. I'd collect herbs from the bush, like aloe (the black juice dry (for laxative. Stinging nettles, for soothing a tense being and great sleep. Leonoris Leonotis aka Wilde dagga to lower blood sugar. And cures migraine. Jimson weed seeds for fevers. Angels trumpet for for lowering acidic system and sleep. Roman wormwood to kill worm and fix upset tummy. etc.
A large mortor n pestle could crush my roasted castor seeds so I could produce my own castor oil.
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joy
Hi ya WB! About how do u think it took to burn out the hole? All righty then, I guess I-m confused about history due to the comments. Lots of em keep talking about a guy, and dogging u saying u mimicked -HIM- r they saying he came up with the primitive skills or just mad cause ur title say primitive technology, I don-t think I know about this guy, one comment said he-s a filmmaker, maybe he documented these skills, which came from people sentries ago handed down from parent to child. I also know I, I bet many others have not heard of this guy, I did Not know this skill till WB showed me. U guys r just jealous of his muscles. I know a little more thanks TO YOU WB, thank u
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Adrea
Great video, as usual! I'm no expert at large-scale meal-grinding, but I've heard that it's more efficient to simply lift and drop the pestle into the mortar. The weight alone is enough to do the grinding, without the need to slam it down. Smashing it hard can also scatter the grain, if there's a large quantity. Then again, when I see the -lift & drop- used, it's usually for millet, wheat and sorghum; maybe corn takes more elbow-grease.
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bobcatrdh
Thank you for posting this video. My eight y/o daughter had to to a project on colonial jobs. She picked an inventor and we found a women, Sybilla Masters who in 1712 invented a -hammering- corn mill. She was inspired by the watching the Native American women pounding the corn with a large wooden post. I have been searching the internet for an example to show my daughter. This did the job. So cool! Thanks
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Atlas
You're blowing way too hard dude. You barely need any airflow at all to get the ember to the point that it's transferring the maximum amount of heat to the material around it. Any more air flow and you're just heating the air and cooling the material. Try just a gentle stream of air through a tiny hole in your lips, works just as well with 100% less hyperventilation.
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Dean
Amazing i tried planting corn in the watnong mountains and they buldozed it this year im going to try in the appalachian mountsins this will give you a fast yeild thanks for sharing i may use this desigbn for acorn flour too
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Brandon
Love this video, your mortar and pestle is almost identical to the traditional Choctaw mortar. The meal you made is also almost identical to -Oksak Bahpo-, Choctaw walnut/hickory nut and cornmeal pudding.
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ArchRockK
I bet you stole PT-s birds just for the background noise. No wonder why in his latest video, dogs were barking in PT-s video!
(Family guy ref. When peter steals a parrot and replaces it with a puppy)
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hunt
I love your take on primitive technology. You use some modern tools which just makes sense for people like me who aren-t as patient and lack bushmanship. Great work, man. You-ve got my sub
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That
Did it taste good?
Also the people saying it-s not real it-s fake he cheated, don-t worry about that. Primitive technology is a hobby, and hobbies are whatever you want them to be
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