Will this make fine texture flour out of grains? What are the grinding burrs made out of? Thanks, D
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I purchased this "grinder" to grind coffee beans. I and my housemate both have experience with several manual grinders, but could not make this grinder work properly. To grind enough coffee beans to make a pot of coffee would have taken half an hour or longer! It looks great on a high display shelf in the kitchen, but that seems to be all it is good for.
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Yes and no, You can adjust the grinding plate wide enough so that you could run your wheat through it and hull it. Obviously you would then have to winnow the wheat afterwards. As far as the "foreign objects" you would want to make sure that any rocks or very hard items are not run through the mill because it could damage the cast iron burrs. (I would use a screen for this, you can go to most hardware or farm and ranch supply to find different size screens to strain out the majority of the unwanted stuff, this makes it very fast to get rid of the majority of foreign material) The cleaner the grain in the beginning the less problems you will have and save a lot of time overall. This mill is the most bullet proof of all the mills I have used over the last 20 years but anything can be damaged with miss use. Having said that I have been milling wheat (off and on) for 10+ years with the same set of burrs and it is still going strong.
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My experience says "no". I've tried, and it takes many, many turns of the device to get a very small amount of whatever I'm grinding, then what I have is almost as fine as flour. But others seems to have much better success. I kept it because I don't have the energy to return it, plus it's very pretty. Silly, but true. Pretty useless, and pretty but useless.
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Did not find in manual the material used for the burrs, however, it states if one complies with the operating instructions, there is a life time warranty on the grinding mechanism. Hope this helps.
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I would like to know what grains are in this bread flour...I contacted Amazon customer service, and even they could not give me any info on this!
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I might be able to help, I have this machine and had the same problem as you. Do you use bread flour or all-purpose flour? From the owner's manual:"Canadian flours are milled from harder wheats so breads can be successfullymade from national brands of both All-Purpose Flour and Bread Flour. U.S."All-Purpose Flour" will produce poor results and should not be used with thisunit. In the U.S., it is important to use "Bread Flour" for even-textured loaves."I hope this helps!
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I'm not familiar with the texture of wheat berries. the only process similar that I've done is make almond milk, HOWEVER, it did NOT fully fine chop the almonds. Keep in mind, Almonds are very hard nuts so that may have played an important part in the end result. Just a suggestion, why not use the simple hand mill/coffee grinder (much more economical). They usually run about $15-$35Good Luck!
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Dear Mr./Ms. S. Nika, Hi. I can not answer your question completely, because I did not buy the drill attachment. I have not ground any wheat with this mill yet. I have only used this mill once so far to grind a pound of rice with the hand crank. set-up, playing with adjustments and then ran it through a second time to get the consistency of cornmeal took me about two hours. On the question about grinding oily nuts I have not done yet. I can tell you this, I love this Mill, it gives me fresh ground flour when I want it, the way I want it and if the grid goes down I can grind flour to make my bread and feed my family.Sincerely Yours,D. Dickson (Aka: SweetPea) Dear Mr./Ms. S. Nika, Hi. I can not answer your question completely, because I did not buy the drill attachment. I have not ground any wheat with this mill yet. I have only used this mill once so far to grind a pound of rice with the hand crank. set-up, playing with adjustments and then ran it through a second time to get the consistency of cornmeal took me about two hours. On the question about grinding oily nuts I have not done yet. I can tell you this, I love this Mill, it gives me fresh ground flour when I want it, the way I want it and if the grid goes down I... » Read More Dear Mr./Ms. S. Nika, Hi. I can not answer your question completely, because I did not buy the drill attachment. I have not ground any wheat with this mill yet. I have only used this mill once so far to grind a pound of rice with the hand crank. set-up, playing with adjustments and then ran it through a second time to get the consistency of cornmeal took me about two hours. On the question about grinding oily nuts I have not done yet. I can tell you this, I love this Mill, it gives me fresh ground flour when I want it, the way I want it and if the grid goes down I can grind flour to make my bread and feed my family.Sincerely Yours,D. Dickson (Aka: SweetPea) « Show Less
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I've never tried grinding nuts and seeds for flour, because frankly I never considered using nuts or seeds for flour! The high oil content from nuts would seem to preclude doing so, but you could try it. However, there's no way to clean this unit's grinding mechanism, so chances are some of what you grind will be left inside the housing. My guess is that whatever is left will become rancid over time and likely affect whatever else you grind in the future. If I really had a desire to do that, I'd stick with something like a powerful food processor that I could clean well. But according to another poster, the answer is yes, so have at it! I've never tried grinding nuts and seeds for flour, because frankly I never considered using nuts or seeds for flour! The high oil content from nuts would seem to preclude doing so, but you could try it. However, there's no way to clean this unit's grinding mechanism, so chances are some of what you grind will be left inside the housing. My guess is that whatever is left will become rancid over time and likely affect whatever else you grind in the future. If I really had a desire to do that, I'd stick with something like a powerful food processor that I could clean well. But according to... » Read More I've never tried grinding nuts and seeds for flour, because frankly I never considered using nuts or seeds for flour! The high oil content from nuts would seem to preclude doing so, but you could try it. However, there's no way to clean this unit's grinding mechanism, so chances are some of what you grind will be left inside the housing. My guess is that whatever is left will become rancid over time and likely affect whatever else you grind in the future. If I really had a desire to do that, I'd stick with something like a powerful food processor that I could clean well. But according to another poster, the answer is yes, so have at it! « Show Less
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I really don't know, I have only used it to cook on. It's easy to find either fine or coarse grind, though.
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I choose to eat gluten free and chose this mill as I had heard it would be able to grind rice, beans and other no gluten grains. I did buy the small grains attachment but have not tried them yet. I'm not sure what other mill you are looking at but so far I am extremely happy with my WonderMill. Best of luck in your search.
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It would grind much finer for sure, but since I do not eat wheat (we eat Gluten Free) I do not know for sure. I could go test it to see if it would make rice into granules (which I believe it would), to make cream of rice, only it started smoking yesterday, and shaving off plastic from some part inside and spitting the plastic shavings into the already ground flour. So now I am afraid to turn it on, and will be purchasing a new mill, but a different brand, for reasons already stated.
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It's ground with stones. What you get in this flour is the whole grain, ground together, nothing separated.
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I don't like the corundum stones,so I only use the basalt/magnesite stones available in selected samap and schnitzer mills-I have hand stonemills from both so I get a workout grinding flour!
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You can only grind dry, non-oily ingredients. It works excellent on grains for sure. Love this grinder! Highly recommend.
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Actually I use the Hard White Wheat berries to make my flour and it has worked great for making bread. I will have to try the soft white wheat berries for biscuits and such.
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It has a conical burr that is some kind of grey stone. Mine cracked at a little part of the burr (where it attaches to the 'drive shaft') and a little flake broke off and got caught in the grind. I fished it out and it works fine. You can set the grind however you want, I do coarse and the mechanism locks in place so the grind is consistent. Hope his help!