Home Flour Mills
An efficient and reliable home flour mill is an important tool in grinding grain into flour for use in home storage cooking. Flour mill design has evolved over the years. When choosing a home flour mill, you may want to consider the following product specifications:
Electric mill
- Stoneless
- High-speed impact-milling chamber
- Milling rates of up to 40 lbs. of fine flour per hour
- Produces a minimum of heat
- Can process other commodities such as corn, rice, oats and legumes into flour
- Compact size that has the look and feel of a quality kitchen appliance
- Recommended by others who are successfully using this same mill
- Does not have a manual power option
- Constructed of metal and plastics, without any wood
- Self-cleaning milling chamber
- Good dust control
Hand mill
- Stoneless
- Gear-driven milling mechanism with roller burrs
- Does not have an auger
- Can be adjusted to either grind harder, dry grains into cereal or flour or to roll moister grains into flakes
- Requires more than one pass, with sifting in between, to produce bread flour
- Recommended by others
- Does not require great effort or force to operate
Sources for mills include online and local commercial suppliers (check the yellow pages under headings such as “Food-Equipment,” “Food-Dehydrated” or similar listings).
