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Complete overview of all electric grain mills
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Home-baked wholemeal rolls made from wholemeal spelt flour freshly ground with your own electric grain mill at home.
Finest wholemeal flour through the large Grindstones with a quiet grinding process
Here you can see a large selection of electric grain mills for home use renowned German and Austrian manufacturers, sorted by manufacturer and performance class.
The following are recommended for grinding grain at home Grain Mills with millstones, because it grinds the grains and does not chop them up like the Mills with steel grinding mechanism or those with knifes
Basically, it can be said that the power or motor strength is not decisive for the flour quality or flour fineness. For normal use in a private household Grain Mills of the 100g class perfectly adequate if mainly common types of grain such as wheat, rye, spelt, barley or oats are ground. The purchase of a more powerful mill ( Grain Mills of the 200g class ) is only worthwhile if you mainly grind very hard grains such as maize and chickpeas or grain in large quantities.
Not all types of grain can be ground from certain quantities with the finest setting, as the ground material heats up more and more as the quantity increases. Once a certain temperature is reached, the oil contained in the grain escapes and smears the grindstone. The best possible degree of fineness can only be determined by trial and error.
More info about grain mills in our small Millwrights
In this video you can see how an electric grain mill is constructed in principle:
In this do-it-yourself construction, the distance regulation of the grindstones for adjusting the fineness of the flour is missing. The different adjustment systems hopper, lever and knob are explained in the Grain Mills Test
Build your own grain mill in the video