|
GRAIN AND FLOUR MILLS
CLICK HERE TO ORDER A GRAIN OR FLOUR MILL
Here at HealthyKitchens.com we carry several grain or flour mills for our Canadian customers. Our favorite is the Nutrimill by L'Equip which we have sold now since 2005. We also carry several hand mills or grain mill attachments for the Bosch machines, such as the Family Grain Mill, and our new German Schnitzer Mills.
You may be asking yourself "Which grain mill is the best"
The answer really depends on your individual needs...
If you don't need a non electric grain mill, then an impact type mill is ideal. They're very fast and they grind all of the dry grains, most beans, and some non-oily seeds, into very fine flour. If they require any adjustment, it takes literally a second or two to do. The original impact grain mills of 15-20 years ago had a high-pitched (ear splitting!) shriek, but the new impact mills have a nice, civilized sound level. The best way to describe it is to say that they sound like vacuum cleaners. If your electric vacuum doesn't offend your ears, then you'll get along wonderfully with a modern impact mill. Impact mills never glaze over like stone burr mills can, and unlike stones, the milling heads of the impact mills we carry won't break and virtually don't wear at all — if you could ever possibly wear a set out, they'd be replaced free of charge by the manufacturer.
So then... which impact grain mill? Here are some thoughts that may help you choose the grain mill that's right for you:
The Nutrimill is the first really new impact grain mill design in fifteen years. The Nutrimill combines the most popular  features of earlier designs, and adds some great new features that will make your baking easier and more fun. The Nutrimill's 20+ cup flour capacity is 2/3 greater than that of the Whisper Mill. It has a pre-cracking chamber, so you can add grain before turning the mill on if you wish (doing so would plug the Whisper Mill.) The Nutrimill is the first impact grain mill ever made that will produce either a coarse ('meal coarse") or fine grind, and its finest setting produces finer flour than any other impact mill. Its 400% range of adjustability not only makes Nutrimill ideally suited for every kind of wheat bread, but also for perfectly textured cornbreads and the lightest whole grain pastries. "Everything you'd want in the perfect grain mill" is an apt description of the Nutrimill, and coming from a maker with many years of experience in grain milling, you can expect a lifetime of excellent service from the Nutrimill grain mill.
The Whisper Mill: The Whisper Mill impact mill is no longer available; for more about the Whisper Mill, see below. The Nutrimill — from a different and very reputable manufacturer — offers everything the Whisper Mill did, and more.
The Family Grain Mill is a quality steel burr mill that offers the choice of hand or electric operation. With the Family Grain Mill you can buy the hand base alone, or the electric base, or both. Click here for more information on the components for the Family Grain Mill. Despite its modest price, the Family Grain Mill is a high quality tool (unlike most hand grain mills on the market), and it's very versatile, offering the ability to grind flour or coarser meal texture, as well as very coarse cracked-grain texture for cereals or to add some nice chewy grains to your bread, grind meat, stuff sausages, even process vegetables. With the popular flaker mill attachment, the Family Grain Mill will also flake oat groats for fresh oatmeal — and most people, when they've had fresh oatmeal, don't want to go back!
"Thanks so much again for your interest and prompt service, Kerstin is now on a whole new plane of breadmaking, much faster and with less work than the usual spin-grinder approach, and with far superior flour results."
The Schnitzer Mill is a smaller, quality grinder with ceramic burrs. It grinds a full range of textures  from very fine, to coarse, or very coarse. Like the hand operated version of the Family Grain Mill, the Schnitzer mill is a good choice for a second mill for owners of high speed impact mills, if you want to also be able to grind very coarse meal or cracked-grain ("cereal") textures.
WHY MILL YOUR OWN FLOUR? CLICK HERE FOR SEVERAL GREAT REASONS
All of these grain mills are quality machines that will provide years of enjoyable service, time savings, and healthful nutrition. If you have questions about grain mills that we haven't addressed, we would love to help you further; our toll-free phone number is just below. Thank you very much for shopping with us!
Click here for a comparison of Manual Grain Mills vs. Electric Grain Mills
Please note: The Bosch Kitchen Centre and HealthyKitchens.com sold the Whisper Mill for years, and for years it was the best impact mill made. But after a change of ownership, service from the Whisper Mill company began to decline. We continued to offer the Whisper Mill for some time because we were able to fill the service gap for our customers, but the company's behavior finally reached such a bad state that we said "no more" and dropped the product. A short while later we got word that the company had, without warning, closed their doors. In doing so, the owners turned their backs on obligations they had to us and to many other parties. Happily, the Nutrimill grain mill is now available. The Nutrimill does everything the Whisper Mill did, and offers major advancements. First, the Nutrimill company is owned by entirely different people — people who, in our experience, have displayed a high level of integrity and who have always provided good service to us and to our Nutrimill customers. Secondly, the Nutrimill can be turned on with grain already in the hopper, and can even be switched off and back on again with grain still in the milling chamber. Doing that with a Whisper Mill would plug it, often requiring the user to return it to the manufacturer for warranty repair — an option that's no longer available. Most of our Whisper Mill owners avoided these pitfalls, but it took only one lapse (possibly by an uninformed or forgetful family member or friend) to cause a real problem. The technology of the Nutrimill makes such troubles a thing of the past. Thirdly, the Nutrimill has a much wider range of texture adjustability than the Whisper Mill. No impact mill can make "cracked grain" (large coarse chunks typically used for making cooked cereals), but the Nutrimill can grind much coarser than the Whisper Mill (a medium meal texture) or much finer (for pastry flour)... as well as anywhere in-between. So it's ideal for making bread flour, but can also do other things. Fourth, the Whisper Mill's 12 cup flour capacity is far exceeded by the Nutrimill's 20 cup flour capacity. The form factor of the two mills is an apples-and-oranges comparison... the Whisper Mill's milling unit was a little smaller than the Nutrimill, but because its flour bin sat outside the mill, the Nutrimill actually occupies less space, with its larger-capacity flour bin that slides into the lower part of the mill housing. Our conclusion is that the Nutrimill is a big step forward in grain milling. It's fast, easy, convenient, and with its self-cleaning milling heads, all you do when you're done using it is rinse out the flour pan. It's easy to see why it's been the best-selling grain mill in the world for over three years now. The bottom line for us is the judgement of our customers: We sell a lot of Nutrimills and our customers are delighted with them — rarely do we receive one back from anyone who was disappointed. You can see the Nutrimill above and we'll be happy to answer any questions about any grain milling questions if you'd like to give us a call!
TOLL FREE NUMBER 1-888-735-1044
I might actually get a medal for taking the Nutrimill plunge, it IS an awesome tool, and to say it is a big hit around here would be understatement."
|
|
