Is Corn Flour and Corn Meal the same thing?!
Answers: I am going by a few Persian recipes that call for Corn Flour but everytime I go to the grocery store, I see "Corn Meal" near where all the other flours are... is it the same thing?
Cornflour and cornmeal differ considerably. Cornflour is ground to a fine chalky white powder and is a valuable thickening agent in sauces. It is also added to some cakes and biscuits. Cornmeal is much coarser, used to make polenta, muffins and some breads, in particular corn bread.
Corn meal is a courser grind.
In America, corn flour is made from corn meal, just more finely ground. In England corn starch is called corn flour.
Corn meal (and there are various grinds) is intended for dishes like polenta. Corn flour is a finer grind of corn meal and would be suited for corn bread as an example. Corn starch is an entirely different product contrary to the above poster (at least in America). Corn starch is used in extremely small quantities as a thickening agent. It has 3 times the thickening power of flour.
Do not substitute corn meal for corn flour. Your end product will have a very grainy texture
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Corm meal is used for like mush and that type of thing as well as the corn breads, The one poster was right about corn flour in the UK thoe other right about the US
No, cornmeal is not the same as corn flour. I don't know why, but many groceries don't carry corn flour. Ask your grocer why not, and he's liable to say "nobody wants it". Well, I'm one of those who does. I finally had to mail-order mine...
Corn meal is courser that corn flour