Posted: 4/1/2011 6:26:39 PM EDT
| Needing to purchase my first grain mill. Prices are high as everyone knows, but after speaking w/ a friend of mine who is an LDS member she recomended the one that attaches to a kitchen aid stand mixer. Has anyone used one of these and can comment? |
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Needing to purchase my first grain mill. Prices are high as everyone knows, but after speaking w/ a friend of mine who is an LDS member she recomended the one that attaches to a kitchen aid stand mixer. Has anyone used one of these and can comment? Small batches are fine.....will over heat if you do big batches.... |
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What is considered a large amount,1 cup of flour, 6 cups of flour? mine started getting "concernably" warm after 2.5 cups of flour.....I chose to let it cool. Now we use hand crank and kids.... 
If we want to do volume.....we do it at the BOL off a motor driven GrainMaker.... .jpg)
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Echo, I have a Grainmaker mill and was wondering about a motor hookup. If you get a chance, I would really appreciate seeing a photo of yours with the motor.
Unfortunately my mill is still in the box waiting till my wife gets back from Afghanistan. She will put it to good use once she gets back. She is a phenomenal baker and is really looking forward to baking with flour that we grind ourselves. Quoted:
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What is considered a large amount,1 cup of flour, 6 cups of flour? mine started getting "concernably" warm after 2.5 cups of flour.....I chose to let it cool. Now we use hand crank and kids....
If we want to do volume.....we do it at the BOL off a motor driven GrainMaker.... http://www.cottagecraftworks.com/images/GrainMakerMill%20(500%20x%20750).jpg |
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Echo, I have a Grainmaker mill and was wondering about a motor hookup. If you get a chance, I would really appreciate seeing a photo of yours with the motor. Unfortunately my mill is still in the box waiting till my wife gets back from Afghanistan. She will put it to good use once she gets back. She is a phenomenal baker and is really looking forward to baking with flour that we grind ourselves. Quoted:
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What is considered a large amount,1 cup of flour, 6 cups of flour? mine started getting "concernably" warm after 2.5 cups of flour.....I chose to let it cool. Now we use hand crank and kids....
If we want to do volume.....we do it at the BOL off a motor driven GrainMaker.... http://www.cottagecraftworks.com/images/GrainMakerMill%20(500%20x%20750).jpg 10-4...I'll try to snap a pic tomorrow....I'm moving supplies to the BOL.....I'll try to make it up to the chow hall....I'll get specs on motor too... 
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Just getting started w/ the grain mill concept, now that i've covered alot of other preps. Which mill is pictured here, also where would be a good place to buy whole wheat. Im sure i tried a search w/ no results but can i purchase it from local feed store coop? it's a GrainMaker.....the handle can come off and a belt will fit the groove on the fly wheel. |
the head gets hot, I usually do 5 cups at a time. just run it at the recommended speed. if it gets too hot, allow it to cool 1/2 hour and start agian I also have a hand grinder I bought on ebay for about $50 that works fine as well, sure it will grind to a halt in 10 years of weekly baking BUT..I can afford $50 for a grinder for now they are used a whole bunch in Mexico.. and yes the $10 coffee grinder will grind wheat berries, and no, not as fine, may have to grind twice, and it will take some time as you have to stop more often to pull out the little drawer, I have one of those as well, used for pepper mostly..but, whole wheat flour is whole wheat bread. |
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It's funny (not ha ha funny) that this thread came up now. Quite a while back I posted how I adapted our Ktichen Aid mixer to run our Country Living Grain Mill. Over time the motor would get too warm and we eventually got the 600 watt mixer hoping the bigger unit would be better able to handle the work. That motor would also get warm but we didn't push it and things seemed to go along fine - until this morning. The two big gears inside the unit stripped. Damn POS pot metal. Now I gotta figure out how to fix or replace and then power the grain mill with something other than the mixer. Oh well. Bottom line - grinding wheat is a lot of work so beware! Good luck.
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It's funny (not ha ha funny) that this thread came up now. Quite a while back I posted how I adapted our Ktichen Aid mixer to run our Country Living Grain Mill. Over time the motor would get too warm and we eventually got the 600 watt mixer hoping the bigger unit would be better able to handle the work. That motor would also get warm but we didn't push it and things seemed to go along fine - until this morning. The two big gears inside the unit stripped. Damn POS pot metal. Now I gotta figure out how to fix or replace and then power the grain mill with something other than the mixer. Oh well. Bottom line - grinding wheat is a lot of work so beware! Good luck. gk GK, I'll start a topic on that. |
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Don't.
My wife has gone through one 5 quart and two 6 quart (600 Professional) KA mixers just from kneading bread once a week. The plastic gears in the upper assembly are even worse (I've taken them apart a couple times). We're saving up for a Hobart professional kitchen mixer, we're done with KA mixers. |