Antique manual grain mill

Grain mills can help you save loads of money on grains by allowing you to buy whole grains in bulk and grind your own instead of buying more expensive packaged pre-ground grains. It can also be healthier to grind your own whole grains fresh rather than grains that have been potentially treated with preservatives and left in storage for long periods of time.

Choosing the right countertop grain grinder for you on eBay is a matter of looking at what you plan to use it for and how you prefer to grind your grains, among other factors. Perhaps the most fundamental distinction between different types of grain mills is whether they operate manually or require electricity.

Electric grain mills are easier and quicker to operate, though they consume electricity. Manual grain mills save you the cost of electricity but require you to put in the physical effort to grind the grains yourself and can be much slower to produce the same yield of ground grains as their electric counterpart.

Another factor to consider in choosing between manual and electric grain mills is your lifestyle and the decor of your home. For a more contemporary decor and technologically fueled lifestyle, an affordable electric grain mill for sale on eBay might be more suitable, while, for a more rustic, rural or natural lifestyle, a simple manual grain mill for sale may be more fitting.

There are several mechanisms used for grinding grains, the two most common being burr and impact mills. Each of these types of grain or wheat mill is more suitable for different grains, be they softer or harder or wetter, drier or oilier.

Each also functions slightly differently, whether grinding, crushing or beating the grain, to produce varying textures of milled grain between coarse and fine. Skip to main content. Shop by Category. More View more categories Less View less categories. Shop by Food Compatibility. Flour Grains Corn Wheat. Best Selling. See All - Best Selling. All Auction Buy It Now. View: Gallery View. Power Source. Food Compatibility. Buying Format All Listings filter applied.

Free shipping. Ishigaki Small Stone mill Stone mortar Millstone 3. Only 1 left! Has anyone here used one of these? As a woman, I see little benefit in acquiring the more expensive unit for such little gain. We have a Country Living mill and love it!! It takes a few minutes to hand-grind our wheat berries and if I want superfine flour, I give it a double-pass. Since we use ours all the time, it is bolted to our kitchen island where I enjoy seeing its presence. Some people have complained that there is a serious work-out with a manual mill.

No…it is NOT a serious work-out…. About 30 years ago we got a Corona mill. It was a huge upgrade from the Corona, but I usually ran the wheat through twice to get it to a nice fine flour. Then about 4 years ago we splurged and got the Country Living Mill, which is by far my favorite and the easiest to grind of the 3 we own.

Ours is also bolted to a heavy wood counter in our kitchen, I grind flour at least twice a week. It grinds the flour nice and fine. I grind spelt, soft white wheat, buckwheat, and rye just this morning to make a fresh loaf of rye for St.

Will you give us your rye recipe? Still trying to find that perfect one for rye and pumpernickel. I used to make this recipe with spelt flour, but it was too dense. Place all ingredients in a bowl. Using a dough hook, mix for about minutes, should form a nice ball, or hand knead for 10 to 20 minutes. If too wet add more flour if too stiff add a little water and mix a little longer until incorporated. Place in a greased bowl,cover and let rise.

Stir or punch down every 20 minutes for 60 minutes. Gently turn dough on floured surface, form a oval or round loaf. Place on greased cookie sheet or parchment paper on a pizza peel if using a pizza stone.

Brush loaf with egg wash. Let rise about 40 minutes depending how warm the kitchen is this may be shorter or longer. You can also make a few slashes on the top of the loaf while it is rising. Loaf is ready to put in oven when it is almost doubled. Note: When you think it has risen enough, use your finger to make a small dent on the side of the loaf.

If the dent remains, the bread is ready to bake. If it springs back it needs to rise a little longer. Bake at degrees F. You may need to adjust the time. Let cool on rack. I agree about not being a workout. It was dated as AD, and probably ground all the grains for a small tribe. The natives skeletons of that time period showed their teeth ground down with the introduction of grinding stones and domestic grains.

That was the first grinding mill I ever saw and was able to touch. I have Wondermill Jr. I used to grind wild raspberry, sumac, wild grape, and lambs quarter seeds. It is a workout for large amounts but what I use it for are small portions. When you see some of what these ground seeds are selling at, it is much cheaper to find and grind your own for free.

The seeds are dried for a couple weeks before I grind them, sometimes I leave the fruit clingers dried to them because picking them out is too much of a chore.

It gives the fruit seed powder a bit of the fruit taste. The Staghorn sumac seeds or fruit they call it have a lemony-tart covering on them and are ground when dried. None of these seeds are sticky to mess up the grinder when rinsed and dried well. I have some ground made into flour for pancakes and it is great. Wild rice is really a large grass seed, not a rice. Then to discourage personal use they confiscated all of the grinding stones.

I forget what they called them but essentially the farmers were hand grinding their wheat in the same fashion as the Indians who used the stone you described.

Being caught with the implements was a death penalty. This one was rated easiest to grind so I bought it. I only grind enough berries at any one time to get exactly two cups of flour for a small loaf. I use a used bread machine only on the dough setting then bake free form or in bread pans. It was easier for me to do this for practicing on various grains, adding other items to the dough, and for general learning purposes. While being adaptable to Bosch, and KitchenAid.

Along with the electric or manual option, and I read that a child can grind with it. Sounds like a choice worth considering. How about the noise factor, has anyone ever used The Family Grain Mill via electrical operation? At the moment we are not storing berries but do have a lot of popcorn. Is that usable as ground meal?

I have a Grain Maker No. Did a lot of reading all over the place before I made the purchase. It was pricey. I believe it was worth it though. Prefer the hard white wheat for making bread.

Flour turns out terrific. Just clamped to a table. I can grind my flour in just a few minutes and my arm is not tired out. Splurged and got my name engraved on it. It is advertised as an heirloom item. Mine is clamped to the counter also. It stays out and the angle of the crank handle is just right. Make short work of hard white wheat.

I grind oats too for my bread and add oat bran. Great mill add the dust cover is very helpful. Have ground several types of grains. Wow, I just found this post but wanted to share my find. I was looking for a mill to add to my preparedness holdings. I researched and researched and decided on a hand mill Wonder Mill Jr in case we have a power down situation and because I only do about two loaves of home made einkorn sourdough a month.

We eat too much if I make more. So I started saving my pennies so I could pay cash as we always do. Now, I am not a great thrift store shopper but do venture in once in awhile, the day after I made my decission as to exactly what I wanted I was in a Thrift shop here in town and low and behold there on the shelf was a Wonder Mill Jr. That thing went in my basket so fast it would have made anyone proud. I went to the cash register without looking for anything else because I was afraid someone would come up and tell me the mill was priced incorrectly.

The cashier did say next time they would probably price it a little higher. Next part of the story. We have and like the Victorio because you can hand grind or use the motor which goes on simply by slipping it over the shaft.

I have a Wondermill Jr. I put it away to use only for power outages. I would crank for a few minutes, go do something else -repeat. Also ran the wheat berries through twice. I also have a Champion juicer with a grain attachment. It does about as good a job as the Wondermill jr and a lot less work since it is electric. Also run the berries through it twice. Both do an okay job but I have never gotten a really fine flour out of either of them.

Note: I did not have the Wondermill bolted down but had it clamped to a desk- could make a difference on how easy or hard to crank. I would like to get a better hand mill would hate to have to grind all my wheat with the little Victorio. Adieu friends and health to all!

My wife and I looked at every mill American and foreign made that was available. When all was said and done country living was the one we picked. A little pricey but in the middle of SHTF this unit will not fail you.

We ordered the flywheel and the corn, bean bier. First and foremost bolt this big heavy bad boy down to the counter. I built a bread table with a heavy copper sheet top.

My honey bunny has everything she needs to make bead in one place. Lower part of the table has a bin for flower and a bigger one for wheat berries. Talked to a LDS family also about mills. She told us every time one of her three daughters married she gave her Country Living mill to them as a wedding gift. She said the one she has now will go to her first grand daughter when she gets married. I own the first 2. Brand new, never used, that is where I will look when I am unable to locate it on a certain on line listing.

As Ken states the Grain Mill 99 is rather pricy and out of many of our budgets. I started making my own bread 6 or 7 years ago and soon decided to grind my own flour using an electric mill and a bread machine not just because the hand crank was hard work but time on the job is minimal.

American goods are very expensive here so purchased a German mill that stone grinds called a fidibus I make 3 to 4 small 2 cup of flour loafs a week and this machine just keeps going. If I had to use the hand mill in an emergency I would after I had explored all other options :. I still stand by the Grainmaker, excellent mill, i also have a Retzel with stone burrs, will grind an exceptional fine pastry flour from soft white wheat, definitely need fine screens.

So appreciate all the comments. In prepping social media group someone recommended Country Mill. So this all helps. My concern is the need to bolt something down.

I did see instructions on amAz0n although totally boycott them — a reviewer had posted instructions. For prepping also recommend SunOven. She wants to get KOMO. Skip to content. Most people use them to grind grain wheat berries into flour. No electricity? No problem! When grinding hard white or red wheat, does a hand mill grind it as fine as what you buy from a prepackaged flour? Similar Posts.

It does a great job. We use, or have used: Wonder mill, electric. JMHO Guess this will be added to the wish list, it is pretty. It is a work horse and a nice looking kitchen tool.

Rye Bread- makes 1 loaf 2 c. Modern Throwback I agree about not being a workout.