YouTube instructions on handgrinding flour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diFj0JSvXo8

great. something else to add to my want list.

I have recently thought a lot about this sort of thing, so its really timely for me. Thanks.

I got a country living mill. The wait on them are between 2-4 weeks and I could not find anyone who had it in stock. I bought mine thru homestead products. I was curious about the price and if it was really a coutnry living mill so I called them. They said that homestead products is a big dealer for them. I ordered it about 2 months ago. GREAT. I purchased the "king aurther wholegrain cook book" a few other bread books like the bread makers apprentice and the cornbread gospels. I purchased everything but power bar for a good price as you can see from their website. True maybe it would be easier to spin with the bar, but slower going. I said screw it, mounted it, and just go to town on it. Impressed and sure it will last with intermittant uses, but after turnning out some of the things I did, maybe Ill get fatter and keep making some dam good breads/ pancakes (orange blueberry corn bread pancakes are AWESOME) and other stuff.

http://www.homestead-products.com/mills-countryliving.htm

THANKS!

Hey Neighbor, How's life upstream?

We have a Country living mill (CLM) at home. When you consider the price at ordering time also consider all the accessories. I found a few places that had cheaper mills but more expensive add ons. Send me message via the forum if you would like to know where I sourced ours (I don't like to plug vendors on the forum outside of the marketplace . The CLM is built like a tank and I would recommend the power bar or the motor if you get it...otherwise you may be the only one with the strength to turn the wheel and I like to share that task with the DW personally .

I have also heard great things about the Wondermill Jr. hand crank mills...they are more designed for family use instead of the industrial grade Country living mill (CLM)and are easier to use with a wider application of tasks (e.g. I think it does coffee, peanut butter and oily seeds as well). Thus if you are running a business with it (e.g. a bakery) go with the CLM otherwise its been a bit overkill for us and we lament we probably should have gone with the Wondermill for our personal use.

Cheers,
Logan.

Okay, this may be a wiseguy question, but ... how would you turn a standard 3.5 HP lawnmower into a reasonably effective grain mill? Mills are few, mowers are ubiquitous. I know the results will be crude, you may need to run it through many times, but a cupful of gas could do a lot.

Thoughts?

Using the blade? I don't see how that could work.

Two flat rocks can make a mill. No gas needed. LOL

One of these would use even less gas!

We ended up getting the County Living Grain Mill!
Works good, but needs to be hard mounted or its a big workout!