Puff grain cannon for home made breakfast cereals

I wanted to share an unsatisfied curiosity to learn how to make my own healthy breakfast grain cereals from my own farm grown grains. It costs 4 dollars on average for a box of cereal and I would guess there is 15-40 cents worth of product before preparation. The cost of shipping the stuff is a chunk of the price but this itch led me to do some researching on a whole grain puffer machine. I have seen many industrial items but this one is by far my favorite and is a particularly good quality design!

The title of the video is misleading when you consider that this pressurized cannon can puff rice (Rice Krispies), barley (Golden Puffs), quinoa, wild rice or any other grain. I have not been able to locate these in the U.S. so I may look into manufacturing my own someday in the future hopefully

It will make puffed rice but not rice krispies. They are made from rice flour, sugar etc.

Look for an importer of Chinese antiquities. Puffers were very common in recent history.

Super! Another way to value-add to the small grain crops! Please let us know if you find a decent source, I'm busy looking too. I'm not sure I would want to be standing within a hundred yards of an 'antiquity' with that much pressure and steel, but maybe....

Hey Dale, your absolutely right about the Rice Krispies (just looked at the box). I cant find quality suppliers because the ones made in china are really cheap junk. The model in this video is very well designed with a casing which improves contact with the heat below. Others get cold spots and take longer to heat.

Neato! Also following this thread with interest.

The video is really cool and the POOF is very exciting. But I wonder, could one do this in a presure cooker? you probably would not want to just release the lid but it seems like what you are after is building up heat and presure and then dumping the presure all at once while maintaining the heat. Perhaps the safety valve on the presure cooker would not release presure fast enough though. I don't know.

Attempting to do this with a pressure cooker would be very dangerous. The pressure release would have to be immediate for efficient "puffness" because the water inside the grain needs to rapidly expand to a super heated vapor. I believe the cannon is not only a novelty but a safer method to rapidly expand the grains directing the energy from the pressure release towards one direction. Besides, I bet one of these things would be a huge hit with parties!

Found this guy who demonstrates making cakes from the puffed rice flavoring it with dry spices and using heated caramel as a bonding agent which cools to hold form. This man was very generous to share his trade knowledge.

This video has basic instructions in the procedures of making puffed grains. I am guessing this is an advertisement for their puffer but the design is very large, bulky and inefficient compared to the first video in the thread which can produce a better ratio of puffed grain when compared to size. There is so much food wise I would love to do with this thing.

This is a video of rice puffed in slow motion, very entertaining.

Dale Hodgins wrote:It will make puffed rice but not rice krispies. They are made from rice flour, sugar etc.

Look for an importer of Chinese antiquities. Puffers were very common in recent history.

Don't look for an importer of Chinese antiquities.

I had encountered one of those puffers in Shanghai (but I had been warned that the local product had lead problems) and I was Googling to see if one could be had here in the US.

In doing so I learned that the Chinese machines are inherently flawed--there is a piece of lead in them that is in contact with the food.

http://www.solucionespracticas.org.pe/td/pdf/food_chain_31.pdf

(Don't let the URL scare you, it's in English.)

Thanks for the link.

Nice But cant see