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76degrees
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How to process crushed oyster shell ??
#5925876 - 08/02/06 03:55 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ok, so after I bought some crushed oyster shell recommended by the 50/50+ tek which everyone here told me was the best tek, I come to find that oyster shell flour is preferable to crushed oyster shell.
So, my question is how do you maked the crushed oyster shell into flour? Or at least make the chunks smaller so they actually do what they are supposed to do? Some say use a hammer. Some say if you put it in water, fine particles will rise to the top. Anyone here have some experience with this problem? Or are there just differing opinions like pretty much every other topic here?
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: 76degrees]
#5925898 - 08/02/06 04:03 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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theres dozens of ways, an old blender from the salvge store is one way and less time consuming than a mortar and pestle, dump your bag into a sturdy pillow case and run it over a few times with your car, you'll need to reposition it a few times to keep the grinding action going
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#5925914 - 08/02/06 04:09 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Lol... I think I'll try the car/pillow case method. j/k ... That's a good one Prisoner#1.
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: 76degrees]
#5925923 - 08/02/06 04:13 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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seriously, as long as you arent impaired like myself with a dirt driveway it'll work, the shell its grind together and break into smaller pieces, figure a few thousand pieces break with each pass, you can sift out the finer particles after several passes and return the rest to the pillow case for another go
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76degrees
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#5925984 - 08/02/06 04:32 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ok, dude. I thought you were kidding. But since you seem to be serious I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the advice. I'll let you know how it works out.
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: 76degrees]
#5926228 - 08/02/06 05:49 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well using your car to try and pulverize the crushed oyster shell into flour does not work IME. Instead I got some strange looks from the neighbors. I told them I was just backing over pic's of my x-girlfriend, LOL.
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: 76degrees]
#5926271 - 08/02/06 06:06 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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it's worked for me 
time to try the hammers, same ex-girlfriend story still applies
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76degrees
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#5926294 - 08/02/06 06:11 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'll try that next. Right now I've got it in a big bowl. I've wetted it down and I'm using this weird hammer/wirw cutting device thing to crunch/chew it up. It seems to be working but it's just a lil' time consuming. It's starting to get a bit slushy. I was wondering if I could use the juice to mix in my casing instead of water to help the pH?
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: 76degrees]
#5926307 - 08/02/06 06:17 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I would say wrap it in a towel/pillowcase and beat the hell out of it with a hammer. Good luck!
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: Lily_Morgan]
#5926314 - 08/02/06 06:20 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Take out some pent up agression by putting it in a pillow case and going at it with a baseball bat. It'll be fun, AND effective!
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: wiggles]
#5927184 - 08/02/06 10:25 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ok, I drove over it with a car. Crunched it with a strange tool. And beat it with a hammer :-D This had been quite an interesting lil' endeavor. Still no flour. I think I'll just use RR's advice use it in my cafing mix for better consistency and then FF's advice and buy some OSF.
Well, all this activity has me worn thin... so I'm gonna try to get some rest now. Thanks for all the feedback guys and gals.
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: 76degrees]
#5927215 - 08/02/06 10:31 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: 76degrees]
#5927309 - 08/02/06 11:06 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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76degrees said: Well using your car to try and pulverize the crushed oyster shell into flour does not work IME. Instead I got some strange looks from the neighbors. I told them I was just backing over pic's of my x-girlfriend, LOL.
Oddly enough I had a naighbor that instead of backing over the ex boyfriends pics...she backed over the exboyfriend. When she relized she hit something she put it into drive and pulled back into the driveway...over her ex again......she drove a lincoln...an old lincoln...the ones that weigh a million tons ROFL. I couldn't stop laughing the whole way to the hospital, she couldn't stop crying, for that matter, neither could he.
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: CoolMojo]
#5927965 - 08/03/06 07:46 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Eureka!! I figured it out! If you boil the COS in a pot until it's dry, it becomes brittle and easy to crush into flour. No hammer needed! Just push down on it with a fork :-D I'm guessing that baking it dry might do the same thing but I haven't tried it yet.
Does anyone with a scientific background here think I may be destroying the calcium? I don't think I am. But then again, I don't have experience with chemistry. I'm am guessing I am doing pretty much the dame thing they do in "the industry" to process the OS's into flour. What do you think?
PS - Cool mojo, that is a really disturbing lil' post you wrote. I'm guessing you were trying to be funny?
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Edited by 76degrees (08/03/06 07:49 AM)
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: 76degrees]
#5928092 - 08/03/06 09:31 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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> Does anyone with a scientific background here think I may be destroying the calcium?
Calcium is an element. The first law of thermodynamics states that neither matter nor energy can be created or destroyed.
So no, aside from a few calcium ions that might have escaped with the steam you have not altered the calcium content of the oyster shell.
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: fastfred]
#5928117 - 08/03/06 09:45 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thank you FF. I'm cooking a big potfull now. Turns out to be much easier than driving over it with your car which is just silly. And using a hammer is futile. At least that is what I have found with the brand I am using which is very resillient until it's been cooked. And once cooked, the methods above would work but prove uneccessary since I can just crumble it with a fork or a potatoe masher very easily.
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Edited by 76degrees (08/03/06 09:46 AM)
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: 76degrees]
#5928459 - 08/03/06 12:29 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah, he somehow didn't get any broken bones, just bruised to hell. She was leaving him and so he figured he throw himself infront of the car to stop her. He forgot to let her know he was doing this, she had no clue he was there.
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: fastfred]
#5929109 - 08/03/06 04:42 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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fastfred said: Calcium is an element. The first law of thermodynamics states that neither matter nor energy can be created or destroyed.
energy, not matter with regard to thermodynamics
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Re: How to process crushed oyster shell ?? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#5929250 - 08/03/06 05:42 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I may have spoke too soon about cooking making the oyster shell easy to crush. Making flour IS really difficult. I did end up with oyster grit/dirt/flour. But it took a good bit of processing.
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