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Got a grain mill!!!
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Yay! My hubby surprised me today with a grain mill for my KitchenAid mixer. I’m so excited!
We toyed around with the ideas of getting a Nutrimill or Whisper Mill because you highly recommended those, but in the end, it made more sense space-wise and financially to go with the grain mill attachment for the stand mixer.
So……for those of you who have the grain mill for your KitchenAid….tell me about it! What grains are best? Worst? Any advice I should know before I get started?
Thanks!
Lindsey
Lindsey, please tell all about it when you have got the hang of it. I have a Kitchen Aid and wondered about getting a grain attachment – finances won’t run to a different grinder at the moment. So I would love to hear all about it. I am excited for you…Linda
I would love to know too! I have a Kitchen Aid mixer and might be able to talk hubby into the attachment.
~Heather
Perhaps everyone else has a different machine – so maybe Lindsey you need to try it out and let us all know…..Linda
We ground some white rice flour last night to test out the new mill. It did great! I knew our home-ground flour would be coarser than what’s in the store, and this was certainly the case with the white rice, even though the mill was on the finest setting. My hubby suggested running it through a second time. It helped! It was still coarser than our bag of commercial white rice flour, but smoother than the first time we ran it through.
I’m sure we’ll just have to get used to the new texture. I don’t think it will be necessary to run all grains through twice. I have ordered some milo to make sorghum flour, which seems to be our favorite GF flour.
Definitely worth the $95!]
Hope that helps some!
Sounds good, all you ladies with the other grain mills, do you have a courser texture issue as well, is it usual to run it through twice – I will be able to afford the kitchen aid one, but not the others….just curious. Linda
I’m not Lindsey, but if you are on a delivery route or have one near you, Azure Standard has good prices on grains and lots of other things too.
~Heather
Yep, I get mine from Azure Standard as well. They started delivering to our area in January, and I’m SO grateful! I’m about to finish this month’s order now.
Linda,
I have very fine flour the first time through with my Nutrimill (if it’s on the fine setting).
Gaeleen
That’s really exciting, Lindsey! A mill is such a blessing when following a gluten-free diet since you can get the freshest flours that way, and it’s so much more cost effective than buying the flours or the processed, packaged items in the store.
Thank you for sharing the link for the site where you have purchased your grains. I have been using Amazon’s auto-ship option to get and extra 15% off of the grain we order, and it has been great. However, there are a couple of things that I cannot find on their site. I also enjoy comparing prices to make sure I’m managing our grocery budget in the best possible way. 🙂
I’d love to have a grain mill and be able to grind my own grains. We use whole wheat. I like to use white spelt flour and regular spelt flour when I can find them and they aren’t too expensive. I used to use white spelt flour a lot for baked goods, homemade bread, etc. and it worked wonderful. But that was when we lived close to a health food store that sold it and it was very reasonably priced.
For those that do gluten free, I’d love to know a good bread recipe that wouldn’t cost a fortune to buy the ingredients to make or doesn’t have a lot of ingredients that would be hard to find at a regular store. 🙂 The closest Whole Foods store for us is a bit far for us to drive.
Is there any way to see how much Azure Standard charges without signing in? I like to be stingy with my email so I don’t get a bunch of junk and other stuff. I’m interested in Oat Groats, Wheat Berries, and Spelt if they have it. I usually get my grain from Bob’s Red Mill, but since I ordered last, they have started charging actual shipping charges. So I was looking around.
Thanks
Mrs.K,
Do you have a cookbook titled The Gluten-Free Kitchen by Roben Ryberg. I use many recipes for breads and quickbreads from that cookbook, but I adapt them to be healthier, as all her recipes are made from cornstarch and potato starch. If you don’t have the cookbook, PM me and I’ll share some recipes with you!
art,
You do have to create an account with Azure to view their pricing. I have only ever received one e-mail from Azure, and that was to confirm my registration with them. Of course, if you order you’ll receive confirmation e-mails for the order as well. I have never received a newsletter or any other annoying e-mail from Azure, and I’ve been using their site for two months now. They do have oat groats, wheat berries, and spelt, so it might be worth it to you to set up an account to see if their prices beat what you’re currently paying!
Blessings,
Lindsey
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