Grinder and Mill

Here is my grinder/mill that connects to the kitchen aid mixer that grinds the wheat berries into wheat flour, barley into barley flour, and spelt into spelt flour in the house that jack built. Okay that last part is not true but it was catching that tune. My step-dad Cliff and my beloved John (and family and friends!) built the house we live in. BLESSED. Hello! Back to grinding...

Simply pour your clean grain (check for small black pieces of stone that will ruin your grinder in a hurry)into the top of the device.

Then, your spelt flour comes out and if you funnel it properly - (ahem! it's not always as easy as it looks) it goes nicely into your canning jars (multipurpose jars they are!).

If you are rolling your groats they will come out nice and flat oats like the picture below.

Why on God's green earth would anyone do this when you can buy flours and oat already processed at the store? Insanity. No really, did you know that nutrients start to break down 48 hours after the grains/groats are processed. So let's say that a warehouse somewhere in North Dakota (totally made up location here and the ones to follow as well) is processing your wheat berries into 100%whole wheat flour. They bag it and store it. Then they ship it to South Dakota where it sits for months and months and then finally gets shipped to Maine where it sits at another storage place before finally being picked up sent to your local grocer who stores it until it makes it to front of their shelves. Nutrients are seriously compromised.