OK...I give up, Whats Grits???????????

[Paladin UK]

OK pards, I give up, Whats Grits

I have NO idea as to what Grits look like, as far as I can make out they are a cereal type jobbie.

Here we use semolina and it OK but just a ta too fine fer accurate metering.

A good clear piccie or two would really be helpful 
Paladin (Whats jest....gotsta know    ) UK

[Waddie Bill]

Paladin.

Grits are coarsely ground degerminated corn(corn meal).they are cooked and eaten as a breakfast cereal.

A traditional staple of the American South,also of northern Italy I understand,

Because of the coarse grind, they meter better as a cartridge filler

Hope this helps.

Waddie Bill

[Professor Marvel]

Ah My Dear PUK -

yes Sir, you really must move here, then you can appricate Grits in all of it's glory, something similar to a porridge.
Grits is coarse ground Maize (corn) that is then cooked into a mush ( oh. yum) and served hot in a bowl.
It originated from the Native Americans, along with cracked corn and parched corn.
some like it, some don't. Much like Oatmeal ( Och, shure it tastes terrible! Ya didna add any SALT!)

basically much like "corn meal" it is simply a very cheap, (almost inert) coarse filler for BP cartridge cases. 

you really ARE up late aren't cha?

yhs
prof ( no longer so grumpy) marvel

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

I've been using Cream-of-wheat when I need a filler.  I guess it makes sense for you Amur-cans to use corn.  At least that way you are getting some use out of your tax supported corn subsidies.

"you really ARE up late aren't cha?"

Its now 12.32 am in J.O.E. (Jolly Old England!)

[Professor Marvel]

> Its now 12.32 am in J.O.E. (Jolly Old England!)

thanks Sir Charles

ohhhhh. ok, not just somewhat grumpy but also clearly brain frazzled. musta been thunkin of Greenwich Moscow Time or something.

(my Lovely Spousal Unit lost her widowed mom 3 weeks ago and we are are just back from the first round of cross-crountry "settling of the affairs" and I have taken on the mantle (if not title) of "estate settler" - lovely lady, we will miss her)   

And here is a photographic representation of dried Grits in all their glory. These are the form (as opposed to the cooked grits) that are recommended for cartridge use :-)

doesn't look like much, does it?


professor "fried brain with grits" marvel

[Pettifogger]

They call them grits because they taste like something that fell off sandpaper.

[Shotgun Franklin]

Hmmmm, well if you go to Heaven when you die they'll be serving grits with breakfast. Real grits, no instant stuff, with a pat of real butter and a touch of honey if you have a sweet tooth, I do. Enjoy with a couple of eggs over easy, a side of bacon and a couple of biscuits including, again, real butter and grape jelly. Man I could eat some rite now!

[Professor Marvel]

AH, My Good Monsieur Franklin -
Where does one go to find properly prepared grits? I expect it is unlikely that Denny's would offer the correctly prepared delicacy - they can't even get hash browns made properly!

yhs
prof (fried grits and spam) marvel

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Just to clarify, grits is ground from a form of white corn called 'hominy'. When dried, the kernels are ground down to a powder that is less coarse than corn 'flour', and more coarse than a standard white flour. As long as it is kept dry and boll weevil free, it can be reconstituted to make a gruel similar to cream of wheat.

Southerners, no matter how much they applaud it, give it some tasted by adding butter, covering it with cheese, or anything that will give flavor to a very starchy taste.

[Paladin UK]

Is this the same......stuff



Paladin (Whats gosta know) UK

[Nine Toe Jim]

About once a year when I cross the border into Montana. My better half wants to visit Cracker Barrel. I go along with her so I can have "The Old Timer" breakfast. eggs, sausage, hash browns, GRITS, hot biscuits and honey. My shooting partner from Missouri thinks I'm crazy to eat that stuff but I guess we Northern Canadians will eat anything.   

NTJ

[WaddWatsonEllis]

As instant oatmeal is to oatmeal, so instant grits is to grits.

I am not a reloader, where I think you are going with this .... but I would imagine that instant grits would act the same as a filler that normal grits would ...

[Don Nix]

hominy is corn,whether white or yellow that has been soaked  in a weak solution of lye until it swells and the husk  or outer shell comes off. This is thoroughly rinsed and let dry.
Then it can be groundinto hominy of just boiled with a little butter  and salt and eaten. i like the taste of hominy  sometimes better than whole kernal corn.
grits are good and a warm belly filler on a cold day with eggs  and bacon  and cat head biscuits.

[Paladin UK]

Soooo my dear Professor.....,
Are the said (as per your example) Grits of the instant type?

As I have found (See earlier post) A Very limited supply of Quaker Instant grits

Paladin (What still needs ta know  ) UK

[Forty Rod]

Hmmmm, well if you go to Heaven when you die they'll be serving grits with breakfast. Real grits, no instant stuff, with a pat of real butter and a touch of honey if you have a sweet tooth, I do. Enjoy with a couple of eggs over easy, a side of bacon and a couple of biscuits including, again, real butter and grape jelly. Man I could eat some rite now!

Man, that's just obscene!

First, orange marmalade, not grape jelly.

Second, you forgot the sausage gravy.  Make it with enough sausage and thick enough to sculpt.  Save a biscuit or two to go under the gravy.

Remember that a good meal has the four basic food groups: sugar, starch, fat, and cholesterol.  Condiments should always include salt, Tabasco sauce, black pepper, and butter. 

[WaddWatsonEllis]

The Tobasco Sauce made me smile ...

The few times I have visited my Sis on the right coast, I have to always order salsa to go with my eggs ...

Unvariably, I always get something like, "Why sugar, you aren't from around here are ya?"

The next thing that usually comes out is, "Hon, we got Tobasco, will that do?"

My Sis has taken to keeping a bottle of Pace whever I am coming, and I take it out with me when I go ...

[Professor Marvel]

Well My Dear PUK  (gads I love that )

I expect your instant grits ought to work just dandy, so long as they are fine enough to measure easily, yet sufficiently coarse enough that they will sit atop the powder in question.

If it is so difficult to find, perhaps you can try the cheapest oatmeal you can find, adding a Scottish flare to your cowboy shooting :-)

I wonder how dried sausage would work as filler ?

yhs
prof (grits for brains) marvel

[Shotgun Franklin]

While grits, at least here, are easy to find I have always thought that there is something that ought to work better. Something light, space filling and that won't melt, oh and cheap would be nice. Maybe finely ground Walnut, or Pecan shells?

[Professor Marvel]

While grits, at least here, are easy to find I have always thought that there is something that ought to work better. Something light, space filling and that won't melt, oh and cheap would be nice. Maybe finely ground Walnut, or Pecan shells?

Greetings my dear Franklin!

Cheap! oh my yes it must be cheap!

But we must be extremely careful because of peoples allergies to nuts and nutshells - loading could trigger an attack and blasting it into the air could aresol a killer allergen!

Alternative Fillers! That's it, we need some serious experimentation!  But what about something we all have - sawdust! Time to fire up the old Black and Decker with the coarsest blade I have and collect the output for some trials.

Or the McCullough Chainsaw! that's extremely coarse stuff - but it would meter very badly.

Hmmm back to oatmeal .... or rice?  mayhaps Puffed Rice? Cheerios? one cheerio for .38's 2 cheerios for .45's ....

how about ground beef jerky?

Hey Forty Rod What foods do you shoot from your firelocks?

I can see the next monthly shoot now .....

Lovely Spousal Unit: "Heavens Professor Darling, whatever are you doing? Your Colt smells like Grits and Sausage and your Remington smells of Oatmeal!"

Proffesor: " Why My Love, I am shooting Breakfast at the Outlaws, one cylinder at a time! Would you be so kind as to hand me the Shotgun? Left Barrel is Rice, Right Barrel is Salt."

Lovely Spousal Unit:  " Here you are professor ... Why Professor, you appear overly tall and are beginning to look rather Dali-esq I do believe I am suffering from brain Fever!"

Proffessor: (in his best Rooster Cogburn imitation) "It must be the heat"


Verdammt! Who has an 1860 Colt Barrel I can cut down into an appetizer?

yhs
prof (fried mush for brains) marvel

[Shotgun Franklin]

In many BP rifle loads you put a wad over the powder then a grease plug with a second wad over the grease. The bullet then sets on the top wad. I was thinking that a light filler, a light bulky course ?, between 2 wads might be the answer BUT it would add greatly to the reloading job. I just don't know if it would be worth the effort?