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I find it hard to believe you people eat flint corn. Dent corn is so much better...
 

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So, Seed, if I'm looking at an ear of corn that has just been shucked but is not dry yet, how do I tell if it's flint or dent.(I get that "dent" corn has a dent in it ).
 

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There u go. Easy, Peasy as my aunt would say.

You people are people that like flint corn-gritty corn bread. I'm a dent person-more smooth like cake.
 

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There u go. Easy, Peasy as my aunt would say.

You people are people that like flint corn-gritty corn bread. I'm a dent person-more smooth like cake.

When I want cake, I eat cake. Preferably chocolate.
When I want cornbread I don't want to mistake it for dessert, I like it hearty and substantial, like northern people. :D
 

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He calls it a "flour corn" and differentiates it from flint corn.

I don't know beans about corn but somehow it sounds different, referred to as "soft flour."

Here's a link to the developer's ideas on his pretty and flavorful corn.

Steve
 

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He calls it a "flour corn" and differentiates it from flint corn.

I don't know beans about corn but somehow it sounds different, referred to as "soft flour."

Here's a link to the developer's ideas on his pretty and flavorful corn.

Steve

Thanks Steve,I knew I had read that at some point. So it's not a flint, it's a flour like I had thought.
 

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Not to cause arguments but Indian corn is "flint corn". It doesn't dent. It has a hard starch layer around the soft starch layer. Mr. Christensen may have bred for a larger % of soft starch-to that I don't know. The most famous of flints are popcorn and Hominy corns. All corn grinds up fine depending upon screens used and grinding time. Popcorn has a very larger % of hard starch while hominy corns do not.

The farther north you go, the more flint breeding is used. Farther south, more dent breeding. Iowa has their own classification of Iodent-cross between flint/dent-has more of a dimple.

Cornbread made with dents just doesn't have that "gritty" texture. Any flavor difference is in the % of sugar-the most famous dent is sweet corn.
 
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