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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nIn the United States oats were primarily horse feed until a German grocer, Ferdinand Schumacher emigrated to the United States in the mid-1800s. In 1854 Schumacher began grinding oats in his Akron, Ohio, store, using a hand mill similar that used to grind coffee beans. Schumacher then opened the German Mills American Oatmeal Company, grinding the oats between two rotating millstones. The ground oats resulted in a cooked oatmeal that was pasty and lumpy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asmus J. Ehrrichsen, one of Schumacher’s employees, replaced the millstones with rotating knife blades. This substantially reduced the amount of residue and produced a more uniform meal. Unfortunately, meal of uniform taste and flakiness. While producing a better product, Ehrrichsen’s invention still resulted in significant waste, prompting Schumacher three years later to purpurchase porcelain rollers from England. Not only did the rollers eliminate waste, but they produced a meal that could be cooked in as little as one hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An interesting side note is that in nearby Ravenna, a mill owned by Heston and Seymour, was also selling steel-cut oats, but instead of selling them in bulk, they packaged them in paper boxes with the printed cooking directions, calling their product ” printed on the outside. They called their product “Quaker Oats.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On November 30, 1875, Asmus.J. Ehrrichson, of Akron, Ohio, received U.S. Patent No. 170536 on an Oat-Meal Machine: In the United States oats were primarily horse feed until a German grocer, Ferdinand Schumacher emigrated to the United States in the … Continue reading