Mixing and Coating Raisins with Sesame Seeds in a Metal Bucket

The combination of sesame seeds and raisins is amazing. I've learned over many years of experimenting with a more paleo diet which seeds agree the most with me. For several years now I've relied on tahini as a staple food, either bought as a finished product, or by grinding it with hand-crank grinder myself.

At one point I was running low on ginger and cinnamon powder for coating my raisins and I realized right before I ground my last sesame seeds into tahini, that I could use them to coat the raisins. Not only do they add great flavor to the raisins, they serve the purpose of preventing the raisins from clumping when I use them in my trail mix blends.

It's fun to mix them by hand, it's a real workout processing 25 pounds of raisins at a time. It's also a test of patience and resolve as it can be so difficult to break up the box of raisins that you want to shout profanities. I recently got to a breaking point where I decided that the most efficient approach would be to simply and brutishly use well washed and dried bare hands. No other kitchen tool was working, yet the primal simplicity of a clawed hand breaks it apart with far less effort. I always end up getting sticky no matter how hard I try to avoid, so I figured, why not just get primal. It takes longer to wash up, but overall, it's a time and frustration saving because of how tedious it can be to hack away at the raisin block.