I need to mill millet, quinoa, and brown rice into flakes for homemade granola. Will this press flakes? Thanks for your help. E.Smith
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I do not think it will work, but I'm not sure. Those grains are really thin compared to barley which is what this is thought for. If you decide to go for it I would also buy a set of http://www.amazon.com/25025-26-Blade-Master-Feeler-Gauge/dp/B000BYGIR4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1412880644&sr=8-3&keywords=thickness+blades to make the gap really small.
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This is not the mill you are looking for. It will not press anything into flakes.
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I do not think it will work, but I'm not sure. Those grains are really thin compared to barley which is what this is thought for. If you decide to go for it I would also buy a set of OEMTools 25025 26 Blade Master Feeler Gauge to make the gap really small.
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I just got the grain grinder attachment for Mother's Day! I used to have a Komo grain mill, capable of very fine grinding. The flour I get from grinding with the attachment isn't quite as fine, but is still very good. I use it for my weekly bread baking without much loss in quality. I don't have the pasta attachment or blender yet, but I do have the shredder and the juicer. I love both. Overall, like the Verona the attachments seem to be very well made.
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I have cooked quinoa in my cooker and it did a fabulous job. I used approximately the same instructions for rice as for quinoa. I did not use any oils as the manufacturing instructions says to avoid this. I did use some light seasonings. Worked great.
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It does a good job on everything I've tried, but I haven't tried flaxseeds. It grinds fine as dust or coarse for pepper. Small and doesn't take a big space for storage. Sorry about not having your answer.
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We bought it to try to grind flax seeds, but it took so much work, my wife converted it to a pepper mill. It has worked very nicely as a pepper mill for the past 10 years of daily use, but may be having some mechanical difficulties at this point. For the flax seed, we gave up on grinding our own and started buying Bob's Red Mill ground flax seed.
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I have ground Quinia, Millet, Armiroth (sp), Rice, Flax Seed and other small seeds/grains with my mill. Poppy seeds are tiny black spheres so in my opinion they would grind well but likely slowly. As I am thinking that you would not be grinding a huge amount of Poppy seeds this is likely a good mill for the task as it cleans up so easily. The main problem I see is with OILY seeds such as "sunflower" that do tend to gum up the steel burs.
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I just tried it using dry quinoa (no water). Shaking it vigorously over a bowl, no grains slipped through. A few of the teeny tiny black husks did go though. (I have multi color quinoa.) It's possible that adding the force of water and swishing it all around, a few might slip through, but I doubt it.
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I bought this to grind wet corn treated with All, and made my own Masa dough. It was perfect. I have a Magic Mill as wellMas KitchenAid grain mill attachment for dry grain grinding.
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Sindu-what mill did you finally buy? Are you satisfied with it? I am looking at a mill to grind millets in- we use it more than flour& I would rather make small fresh batches.
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Definitely not; I use it for both rice and quinoa without any difficulty. However, one of the handles came off of mine soon after I got it. I didn't return it because I still needed it and didn't want to wait for an exchange. Otherwise, it has proven durable enough but not of highest quality manufacture.
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Yes. I bought the strainer set to use for straining kefir grains. Sacrificing 3T of red quinoa, I tested the question using the medium and large strainers as the small clearly would hold the grains. The medium and large strainers also held the small grains while being rinsed. The strainers are very slightly graded in size. Glad to help.
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Yes, I have a friend who has been grinding cornmeal for years, by the way I have had my mill for around 15 yrs and it keeps on just keeps on grinding, Fantastic mill!!
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I tested uncooked millet and some grains fell through some got stuck in the holes and some stayed in the colander. I didn't have any quinoa but as I recall from an earlier attempt they would fall through or get stuck as well. Best to use a screen sieve.
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Granola, yes. Special K? Maybe. They might get crushed in the process, but I don't see why they wouldn't work, just with much smaller flakes.
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It is a VERY fine mesh so I don't think so. I have not put quinoa in it, but use it to wash rice before cooking and those grains don't fall through.
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I have all three sizes and love them. However, I actually use a long handled fine-screen mesh strainer for quinoa. I think the holes in my Tovolo strainer are too large and the quinoa would pass through. But if you decided to buy a Tovolo strainer the smallest one would be fine for one cup of other grain. The only other downside with these strainers is that the stainless steel rim around the top edge does interfere with easily dumping the grain (and red lentils!)into a pan, so be prepared to be able to completely invert it and bang it on the pan. Hope this helps.
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I use it to grind flax seeds, and it works great, so since they are generally smaller then rice, I would think it would work just fine for brown rice.