ChefcaptainManual Cast Iron Grain Grinder, Corn Grinder, Food Mill Hand Crank For Wheat Grains Nuts Grinds 1 Lb Per Minute

Regarding the choice of supplier:From a good supplier, this mill is worth every cent. I needed a simple mill for homebrewing (and didn't want to spend the ballpark $200 required for a good roller mill) and came across this, with many reviews describing it as wonderful for that purpose. However, I also noted many reviews complaining of poor quality, excess packing grease, etc (things that would surely have shown up in the five-star reviews). Then I noticed that some of the five-star reviews mentioned that they'd gotten theirs from Discount Tommy. So, I waited until Discount Tommy had them in stock, bought from them, and all's been great. Now, I have no idea what other suppliers are good/bad. Discount Tommy probably isn't the only good one, but judging by reviews there are definitely some bad ones; going with the one known good supplier seemed safest.Regarding the product I received:I washed it with soap and water, dried it, and assembled it. Everything fit fine, though there are of course rougher areas (though the surface finish is fine everywhere) due to the fact that the mill was cast rather than machined. The hopper holds perhaps a pound of brewing malt (something I intend to upgrade). The base can screw directly onto a surface or be clamped onto anything ~2" thick or less. Other reviewers had noted that the mill could be driven by a drill; it was initially unclear how they'd done so, but my solution was to use a Dremel tool to open the eye of an eyebolt, put the threaded part of the eyebolt into my drill's chuck, and then hook my eyebolt to the eyebolt on the mill (important, probably obvious note--the mill handle was not installed for this).Even operating at I'm sure much greater speed than the manufacturer intended, the mill chews through grains. I use a piece of aluminum foil, formed over the upper section of the milling plates, to keep grain from being thrown everywhere. I first used mine clamped to a tabletop, but found that milling a 5 gallon batch's worth of grains to be difficult since I had to keep emptying the relatively small bowl that could fit under the milling plates. So the second time around, I affixed a 2x2 to my table that juts out beyond the surface, allowing me to use a makeshift chute to funnel the milled grains into my full-size collection vessel.

This is just perfect for milling barley or anything you want to crack. I have played with it to get the gap set right, and it works perfect. The shop where I buy my grains can grind grains for free, but now I don't need to grind the whole pile up front and take a chance of them losing freshness. I can now by in the much cheaper bulk sacks, which are not ground for free.As for the item, it's very basic, but very well built. The bolt that holds it to the counter is correctly sized for the item, and the bolt that holds the crank can be replaced with a hex head for using a drill. I pulled the M8x1.25 bolt out and replaced it with a hex head. Now, I can use a drill to mill around 20 pounds of barley in around 20 minutes. It doesn't have a shield, but I just use a plastic container cutout over the outlet. This wouldn't be needed, but with the electric drill, it can really fly out! For 20 bucks, this is really a very good deal. Just remember, since it's cast iron, don't wash it unless you absolutely have to. If you don't dry it out thoroughly, you will get some surface rust. BTW, for reference, the aluminum hopper holds around 2 pounds of barley.It's money well spent.

My main interest is grinding wheat berries. I'm new to it, so I thought this product would be a fun/cheap way to start and learn. It has been. I've yet to have any luck in getting this to grind all that fine.. Even after running it through several times. I end up with about a fifth of it being the consistency of flour and the rest ranging from there to quite chunky. About what I expected since it is a "corn" grinder, not a wheat mill. But I think I might be able to have a little bit more success with a some more practice.But the main thing I wanted to mention is that none of this has kept the wheat from making good bread. You just have to realize that it needs to be softened up before you bake with it. All I did was boil some water in the kettle and poor it all over the ground wheat and let it sit till it had cooled down enough that I could add the yeast without killing it. Think in the same way you soak beans or grits. The cracked wheat berries turn to mush by the time the water cools to luke warm. I've tried this both with 100% flour ground this way and a 50/50 mix of the ground wheat and white bread flour. Both came out tasting great. The 50/50 was the same density that I am use to getting from 50/50 store brought whole wheat flour and white bread flour. The 100% was a little denser than bread I have made with 100% store bought whole wheat flour, but not too dense. The soaked cracked wheat adds a very interesting and tasty texture to the bread.Even though I now intend on upgrading to a better bread flour mill in the future I'm sure I'll come back to this one to intentionally get that texture again in the future. Still trying to decide between the affordable Victorio or saving up and splurging on the Wondermill Jr.Also.. it is one thing for a person to not like manual grinding and prefer an electric. It is entirely another thing for them to buy a manual grinder and then complain about it being manual.

DO NOT BUY THIS - Just look at the image this thing is a health and safety hazard, the paint kept coming off with the food, mind you it was supposed to look green…. Nothing fixes this, we tried scrubbing it. It will always keep coming off.

The construction of this mill was to poor I had to try to force it together to get it assembled. The casting of the parts was poor and ultimately it didn't work at all. It was returned.

Je suis déçu par ce produit j'ai l'impression de mettre fait arnaquer. N'arrive même pas à écraser l'arachide sans avoir les morceaux dans la pâte. En plus, il y a les débris du métal utilisé dans la pâte. Vraiment déçu! Je sélectionne une étoile car c'est obligatoire d'en avoir sinon aucune étoile!!

It does not work.