Any Home Bakers Here?

[MTKitty]

@MTKitty When you grind cream of wheat, is it the whole wheat berry?
like you would do for flour, but just a coarser grind right? I love cream of wheat but have never thought to grind my own, lol.

@wyoDreamer - That’s it, exactly. The best part is you can make the cereal more or less coarse than store-bought, to suit your tastes.

 

[Sally PB]

Does anyone grind flour by using a blender? I have a Blendtec, and I've ground some brown rice flour. Actually, I ground it twice. It's still a bit gritty.

GF flours are generally $$, and if you want organic, then even more so. I can get organic rice and possibly some other grains at a reasonable cost.

 

[MTKitty]

Does anyone grind flour by using a blender? I have a Blendtec, and I've ground some brown rice flour. Actually, I ground it twice. It's still a bit gritty.

GF flours are generally $$, and if you want organic, then even more so. I can get organic rice and possibly some other grains at a reasonable cost.

I don’t own a blender. Well, except the immersion kind I use for canning. So, I can’t compare blended to ground.

Iirc, the instructions for my grinder had me run rice through it once or twice before first use to clear all the slivers and shavings from milling the metal parts.

That rice flour was pretty fine.

 

[bruceha2000]

Does anyone here grind their own flour? What do you use to grind it?

@rjohns39 does

 

[rjohns39]

I use the wonder mill

https://www.thewondermill.com/index.php/module/statics/action/view_listing/page/52

it does a really nice job on all sorts of grains.

 

[ronott1]

Does anyone grind flour by using a blender? I have a Blendtec, and I've ground some brown rice flour. Actually, I ground it twice. It's still a bit gritty.

GF flours are generally $$, and if you want organic, then even more so. I can get organic rice and possibly some other grains at a reasonable cost.

I have a kitchenaid flour mill that is fairly coarse even at the finest setting. I have used the blender to make it finer but usually use it as is when making bread.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Bakers I guess I am not that pure.
I buy my flour at Costco it is organic label does not have the clumps of all purpose

 

[Sally PB]

@pennyJo1960, I'm not looking to become a flour snob.

GF flour ain't cheap. Organic flour isn't either. The two put together might be out of my price range, if I could find them. I'm using Namaste brand GF which is non-GMO, but not labeled organic, and I want it all.

So I thought, hey, if I ground my organic brown rice (very cheap at Costco), I'd have organic GF flour.

My Blendtec blender made me some fine grained sandy stuff. So I was looking at grist mills online. $$$ for what I was looking at.

And I had a great idea sparked by a memory I dusted off... I bought a used juicer from my boss when he was downsizing everything and moving into a motor home. And, behold and lo! It has a grain attachment! Now I just have to put it together and try it out.

Stay tuned...

 

[pennyJo1960]

Darn nice find! I don't know I am coffee snob ! Think @ronott1 is also ?

 

[ronott1]

Darn nice find! I don't know I am coffee snob ! Think @ronott1 is also ?

I roast my own coffee beans!