How do you make corn meal?

Answer 1

Cornmeal is ground corn. To make cornmeal, kernels are dried and then ground to either a fine, a medium or a coarse texture. Packages are labeled stone-ground or steel-ground. The stone-ground method, sometimes referred to as water-ground, retains some of the hull and the germ while steel-ground cornmeal has mostly the endosperm.

Answer 2

You put the corn kernels into a grinder and grind it up. Large companies have equipment that sizes it and removes the dust, but you can do it yourself with a home flour mill. Use the steel cutter, not the stones.

Answer 3

This question can mean different things depending on your country of origin. In the UK, the material which they call "corn flour" is what we in the US call "corn starch". Other countries refer to the material we in the US call "cornmeal" as "corn flour"

Flour is just grain ground to a fine powder. Therefore to get corn flour from corn meal or corn grits you'd have to grind it very fine. You may be able to make a small amount in a coffee or spice grinder (the type with the blades) although this will still be much coarser that true corn flour.

Corn starch (US term) has to have the pericarp and the germ removed first, then the remaining endosperm (pure starch) is very finely ground.