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so I finally did nixtamalize some corn and make tortillas,

this is the recipe that I followed, but cut in half:

2 pounds clean, dried flour-corn kernels (about 1 quart)
1/4 cup pickling lime (food-grade calcium hydroxide)
3 quarts water

cook for 15 min and then let sit for 4 hours
and then rinse very very well
go find instructions here

I used a flower corn and one pound was one quart in size,
and it did not work out perfect.
the husks just dissolved entirely...
and some of the kernels were out of the water at the end,
so I think that the key here is to use one quart of corn to 3 quarts of water and just ignore the weight of the corn
and maybe the corn should be a dent corn...

so after getting the nixtamalized corn,
I then put it through the grinder and then came up with a damp powder,
it was way to dry to make a tortilla, I tried, but it just crumbled apart,
so I added water not knowing if that would work at all,
and it worked perfect.
so then I pressed out the tortillas and cooked them about one min a side (they were kind of thick)

the end product was good, but I should have set the grinder for a finer setting...

the entire thing was way less scary than I had thought (mainly because I did not get any chemical burns or anything (yay !))

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