I've made soured corn a bunch of times now and each time is different depending on whats on hand. plain corn and water or milk will work but sugar and stale beer or yeast will help the bacteria grow faster and longer and flavorings from molasses to koolaid/jello/jelly/jam/syrup give it a sweet candy like smell to me anyway. with their noses they are gonna find it either way. it is nasty smelling stuff and carrying it far without getting it on me is almost impossible and will stink out your clothes and truck like nobody's bizz. since I tweaked my knee I strain it then put it thru the dehydrator so it's dry/lighter and is like pig hard candy, and use the liquid as a scent attractant for wma's where "baiting/feed" is not allowed. but pigs are OMNIVORES and will eat just about anything. I have seen them show prefferences and ignore the corn when there is something they like better and is easier and safer to get to. it all seems to depend on what else is around at the time , like acorns.
Dang Deutze you must have one big dehydrator! My wife would run me out of the house if I was tryng to dry that stinky stuff.
I made some on Wednesday before coming back home.
I filled a clean 1 gal paint can with 8 cups of corn, about 1/4 bottle of left over red wine, almost one can of left over beer, about 3 scoops of sugar and enough water to fill the can about 3/4 full. I sealed the lid and then my son shook it and rolled it around for about 15 minutes. I took the can out to the middle trail where I put two holes on the lid with a nail and hammer and hung it up about 10 feet off the ground with some rope. I'll go back in 2 or 3 weeks and I'll see what it attracts.:eek I ain't never had any left over beer.
I was thinking the same thing. That's about as hard to imagine as leftover venison.
Or Bacon.......
9Dawgs, it takes 2 batches to dehydrate a 40 # chlorine tablet bucket full (normal size dehydrator 4-5 trays), gotta strain that delicious juice off first, that's the hardest part. I line the trays with some window screening to keep small kernels or pepper seeds from falling through and do it in the garage, NOT INSIDE! when hanging it watch out for bees.
9Dawgs, it takes 2 batches to dehydrate a 40 # chlorine tablet bucket full (normal size dehydrator 4-5 trays), gotta strain that delicious juice off first, that's the hardest part. I line the trays with some window screening to keep small kernels or pepper seeds from falling through and do it in the garage, NOT INSIDE! when hanging it watch out for bees.
Cool, how long do you run the dehydrator? Or do you just dry it until it feels right?
if you rotate the trays app every 4 hours, with that much corn it's about 2 days to get it real dry so it won't rot.
