The WonderMill Electric Grain Mill can become an important part of your quest for healthy living. This mill will allow you to effortlessly grind your own wheat, rice, beans, corn, barley, oats, spelt, quinoa and other grains from coarse down to pastry fine. This mill will even grind the world's smallest grain, teff, down to a wonderful fine flour, and can also handle beans up to the size of garbanzo beans. You are only able to grind dry, non-oily grains and beans in this mill since oily and most seeds and grains can clog the unit. (For oily and moist grains and seeds you will need a hand grinder with stainless steel parts.)
The WonderMill Electric Grain Mill features a powerful 1250 watt motor. The mircronizing grinders provide a smooth, even texture to your flours. This mill is very efficient and the flour is dispensed into a removable cannister. The unit is well designed and will help you keep your kitchen clean!
While all electric mills are somewhat loud, this unit is the quietest mill on the market. The mill is also covered by a life-time warranty. Please see the video review below on the WonderMill Electric Grain Mill so you can see for yourself what a wonderful mill this truly is:
There are many advantages to grinding your own flour, and nutritionally, there is nothing better than stone grinding your own flour at a slow speed. We enjoy the fact that the WonderMill Junior Deluxe comes with a set of stone grinders that make grinding your own flour easy. You can use the stones to crack wheat, mill farina (creamy wheat) or grind flour down to pastry fine consistency. No wonder the manufacturer calls it the World's Best handmill!
This is a grain mill that even children will get excited about. At least for a few minutes that is! While it is hard to sustain the excitement with younger children, many older children and teenagers will often take the challenge seriously to mill grain for you. This is because it is somewhat gratifying to enjoy the fruits of your labors by cracking your own wheat, grinding your own fresh, creamy wheat or milling your own super-fine pastry flower. Of course, it is so much faster to turn on your electric mill and effortlessly watch as the machine finely mills your grain into flour. However, the newer high impact electric mills feature high speed steel grinding burrs and plates that are not able to crack wheat or make coarse grade corn meal. The best these electric mills can do is a medium flour or fine cornmeal at best. The lower temperature of hand grinders will also help conserve additional nutrition of your flours and cracked cereals versus high-speed electric grinders.
Freshly Ground Creamy Wheat (Farina)
The grinder stones that come with the deluxe model hearken back to the older box style mill that featured stone heads that I enjoyed growing up. The stones can be adjusted in the front of the mill using the adjustment knob. You can crack wheat, grind creamy wheat consistency and even get down to pastry fine flour in one single pass. The stones are obviously designed for dry, non-oily grains and seeds as stones are mildly porous. The stainless-steel burrs on the other hand are ready for moist and oily nuts, seeds and grains. The stainless-steel burrs are great for grinding brown rice flour, bean flour and corn meal. You can really open up a wide spectrum of possibilities with having both stone and steel grinders and being able to control the consistency of your milling.
Stone Grinders Above and Steel Burrs Below
You can grind flax seeds, process lime soaked corn for masa and even make peanut butter using the stainless steel burrs. Below you can see a picture of corn cooked in lime for tortilla masa that has been run through the WonderMill Junior. Truth be told, this was a slow and laborious endeavor, probably better suited for a meat grinder, but I was able to do it in the WonderMill Junior and then completely clean my grinder afterword.
Yellow Corn Masa
Just one look at the WonderMill Junior shows you that this mill means business. The WonderMill Junior is solid piece construction with a food grade powder coating. The hopper will hold just over one quart of grain! The WonderMill Deluxe has a set of grinder stones and a set of stainless steel burrs. The large double clamp on the bottom of the mill allows for clamping on to a surface up to 2 inches. The mill seats nicely on tables and counter tops due to the double rounded mounting plates that tighten down firmly using large, rounded tightening knobs. The double clamp and mounting plates are both powder coated to protect your table top and counter.
There are cheaper and more expensive hand mills out on the market, but in my opinion the WonderMill Junior hits the mark as to quality, versatility and price. The key here is solid piece construction, heavy duty features, stone grinders and stainless-steel burrs. These qualities make for a nice, heirloom quality hand grinder.
My brother-in-law purchased the Back to Basics Grain Mill (Hand Grinder) and it has been permanently attached to his countertop ever since. Why is it a permanent fixture you might ask??? Because of its versatility.
For everyday use, there really is nothing better than a great electric grinder like the WonderMill or NutriMill. However, these mills have their limitations. They do not crack grains or process courser grade flours or meals. My brother-in-law uses this hand grinder on a fairly consistent basis to crack wheat for breakfast cereal. I prefer cream of wheat, so I tighten the head down a bit to make farina. (For some reason I just love the "lumpy-ness" of cream of wheat!)
This grain mill will crack cereal, grind to farina grade cereal, grind corn into corn meal and do a medium grade flour that is good enough for bread, rolls, pancakes, etc. It takes a couple of minutes to grind a cup of cracked wheat and about 5 minutes for cream of wheat. Unfortunately it takes over 10 minutes for a cup of flour, hence the need for an electric mill if you mill flour on a regular basis.
This mill is probably the most popular backup grinder in case of emergency and also couples as a nice primary grinder for cracking your own wheat.
