Flour and Seed Mills Buying Guide
If you're a health 
nut or want to become one, why not try grinding your own flour and grains? You can use the freshly ground whole grains to produce healthy homemade breads and other baked goods , or you can use them to add more nutrients to your breakfast cereals and oatmeal. Grinding your own flour and seeds is simple, whether you do so manually or with an electric mill, so check out some important details on the common mill models out there, and start grinding. Your healthy, new diet awaits.
Types of Mills
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Manual Seed and Flour Mills
- You need some muscle to operate these babies.
- Less expensive than electric, but again, they require some hard labour.
- Need to be secured to the table top to allow for proper leverage.
- Can adjust from fine to coarse textures.
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Electric Seed and Flour Mills - Can grind higher amounts of grain and seed at one time than a manual mill can.
- Harder to clean than its manual counterpart.
- Can be very expensive depending upon the model and its extra features.
- Capable of grinding thicker textures faster, such as nuts and beans.
- Usually have stronger milling heads than manual models.
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The Blades
Different blades produce different grinds.
- Some are adjustable, allowing you to get a range of fine and coarse grinds. This comes in handy when you are making different pastries that taste better with one versus another. Pizza works well with finer grains, for example, while coarse grains are better suited for bagels and hearty breads.
- Metal blades are best suited for oily grains and nuts.
- Stone blades are best suited for making very fine grinds of flour.
- Spinning metal blades are found in electric mills and work rapidly to grind flour.
Things Typically Ground
Mills can be used with the following :
- Wheat (hard and soft).
- Buckwheat.
- Split peas.
- Popcorn.
- Sorghum (milo).
- Tritical.
- Rye.
- Rice.
- Millet.
- Flaxseed.
- A variety of nuts.
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