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weizenwind in vegancooking

Grain mill advice?

Dec 04, 2005 17:48

I'd like to stop dreaming and actually buy a grain mill. Anyone got advice on brands or things to watch for? I don't want a KitchenAid attachment because, well, I don't want to kick down another few hundred on a KitchenAid. I'm thinking electric over hand crank, but if anyone can convince me that I won't make myself miserable trying to hand-grind ( Read more... )

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polyphonicvegan December 5 2005, 03:25:31 UTC

>that I won't make myself miserable trying to hand-grind enough flour for a batch of bread, I'd love to hear it.

I can't guarantee anything but it is SO MUCH COOLER (and/or hotter if you're trying to pick up someone with baked goods~it happens...) to say "I baked this fanfuckingtastic bread myself, ground the flour and everything."

weizenwind December 5 2005, 04:49:26 UTC

Oops--see comment below. Yeesh, you'd think by now I'd know which link to click.

weizenwind December 5 2005, 04:48:51 UTC

Ha--you might have a point there, but I'm afraid that for many people they would just be that much more convinced that I'm absolutely batty. Oh well, I guess that can be my new screening tool for people who are worthy of dating me ;)

polyphonicvegan December 5 2005, 05:24:41 UTC

It's seems like a good screening tool to me. I once used tea to screen a potential boyfriend. The bloke I was interested in agreed to come over for tea and said he'd drink anything black. I made Thai Iced Tea from How It All Vegan which, I told him, was excellent served hot. My friends said if he goes with the iced option, he's out. Sure enough he did and that's the end of that.

Speaking of batty...

Oh, and I'm sure I'm not the only one in this community who gets a tiny crush on you everytime you post a picture of something absolutely delicious looking. It helps that I assume you have a German accent.

weizenwind December 5 2005, 05:31:09 UTC

You've got me blushing like a fool over here, especially with your überhot icon :)

I wish tea had worked as a better screening tool with my last guy. He introduced me to several amazing teas as well as a number of other culinary delights. Tragically, that's pretty much where the delights ended. On to the grain mill!

petienka December 5 2005, 05:22:57 UTC

I won an electric one off Ebay for a reasonable amount (like, $35 or so?) this past summer -- it's an older model, but in excellent shape and I'm using it regularly, and loving it.

weizenwind December 5 2005, 05:32:30 UTC

Ooh, what is it? Make? Model?

And how loud is it? I read a review on Amazon from a guy who loved his mill but described it as "very, very loud." I'd hate to drive my neighbors to hating me in the name of flour, even if the results do score me hot dates...

petienka December 6 2005, 19:21:52 UTC

It's called a "Little Gem", and I'm guessing it's circa the '70's, or perhaps even earlier. It basically looks like a little wooden cabinet -- grain gets funneled into a hopper on top, with a pull out drawer to catch the flour below. And yes, she's noisy all right -- but not unbearably so, and I tend to have sensitive hearing. Still, there are modern mills available on the market that make little sound at all (all were out of my price range though)....

Grain Mill zenko December 5 2005, 05:42:09 UTC

I have a manual coffee grinder made by a German company called Zassenhaus, they also make a pretty slick grain mill:

http://www.sweetmarias.com/zass.grainmill.html

Minuses:

* Slower than an electric mill
* More effort than an electric mill

Plusses:

* Actually grinds very, very well (if my coffee grinder is any indication...)
* Quiet
* Cheap
* Precision German engineering
* When armageddon hits and the electric grid falls, you can have a self-righteous laugh at those fools with Kitchen Aids while you grind yourself some flour.