The Grain Mill is small, compact, and light – yet strong. Weighing in at under 3 lbs, we have not found a lighter grain mill on the market. The Grain Mill comes with a hand crank but also offers an optional electric drive motor (VKPMOTOR sold separately). Now you can have a single mill that works great with or without electricity on large and small grains. It is the perfect compliment to any baker’s kitchen. Making fresh flour from beans, corn, wheat, oats or rice has never been more convenient. The stainless steel burrs efficiently grind any non-oily grain or seed. The Grain Mill offers even more versatility by allowing you to grind from coarse, cracked cereal texture to fine bread quality flour. The large capacity hopper holds up to 2 cups of grain. The wide clamp base securely clamps to counters up to 2″ thick. When using the hand crank, The Grain Mill twists slightly; absorbing the shock to the clamp base. This keeps the mill clamp more secure. The Grain Mill is great for emergencies and small batch baking – you will enjoy it for years to come!
The Bookie –
Great little grinder!I’m gonna be honest, I was not expecting much when I purchased this. I was worried and researched endlessly for a grinder that fit our budget AND could grind my wheat berries into usable flour for my sourdough bread. I wanted hand crank because it will never fail unless my arms fail, but I feared my arms would fail if I had to grind for hours to get enough flour for a loaf.So maybe my previous negative bias is making this grinder seem even better than it is. I mean, I have had ground meat, nuts, and other sundries with the old cast iron grinders in the past. And boy, was that a chore!So when I set up this new grinder and started grinding rice to prep it for flour, I was bracing myself to hate it. 15 minutes later I had a relatively fine grind of rice that actually amazed me.When I moved on to my precious wheat berries, I found I could roughly grind 2 cups in about 15 minutes, then tighten the burrs for a fine powder and finish a fine flour in another 20 minutes or so.The first time I used it I attached it to an antique Hoosier hutch and it did not scratch the wood surface despite all the wobbling. Since then I have found a way to attach it to our kitchen island, just in case it starts scratching surfaces with wear. So far so good.As for the flour… I have baked 4-5 loaves of sourdough with it so far and they are wonderful. Mind you, a lot of that is wheat quality, etc but I have noticed no major issues with coarse flour, chunkiness, heaviness… Also, I am not as fit as I once was, so I expected this to be a bit brutal, but I have found that I enjoy grinding my grain when I have the extra time. Its a light workout depending on how much you need to grind, but certainly nothing terribly fatiguing, even for a middle aged, somewhat overweight woman. 🤣 If I can do it, so can you! Promise. All you need is a bit of patience and a good book or podcast to entertain you.Finally, a bit of advice… 1. Don’t fill the hopper all the way. Just add enough grain to fill the grinding area and continue trickling it in. The more full the hopper, the tougher it is to grind. 2. If you want fine flour, don’t try to grind it fine right away. Run the grains thru on a loose/coarse grind first to break them up a bit (see my pic), then run the coarse ground wheat thru the mill set to fine grind. And voilà! Beautiful, healthy, delish flour!I am so pleasantly surprised by this little grinder that I really did want to share with others who may also have their doubts. If you want to bake a little bread from home-ground flour, this is an excellent machine. I wouldn’t want to grind more than 1000 grams or so in a day, but thats enough for a few loaves of bread for many basic recipes. It is easy to use, effective and affordable. I definitely recommend! *Note: I haven’t yet ground anything but rice and whole wheat in it, so I can’t speak to spices, flax, etc. I can’t imagine it will do a bad job with those either tho.
Rachel –
Success! It makes flour!We first bought a Victoria mill thinking we could turn our wheat berries into flour with it… We were wrong… At the finest setting, the result was very chunky and coarse. But this mill did an adequate job at making soft powder flour. And it took much less effort to turn the crank. I am pleased.
orb –
Works GREATI didn’t like the hopper being plastic but once I used it I was happy! I had purchased another kind and returned it because it didn’t work well, this 1 does.
Ronnie Cochran –
Works goodWorks good to me. It does exactly what it’s supposed to do. Be sure to have something solid to attach it to, don’t try to attach it to a chair and hold the chair with your feet…hand crank mills don’t work well like that.Overall I’m satisfied.
Amazon Customer –
Modern kitchens may be a problem for thisClamp design is not inducive for modern counter tops. Most home counter tops are waterfall design and are a good 2 or more inches thick where one would clamp anything to. Please be advised!
Kimberly –
Honestly, go with a step higher. I wanted to love this. I did not buy this from Amazon; it was a gift. I will start with a positive, because I really wanted to love this. I tried brown rice first, and I was impressed with the soft, pillowy, perfect flour. However, it’s very, very difficult to find a surface this will adhere to for many cranks. You really might have to build a special table for it or something. I tried to clamp it to a stool and hold it with my feet. It came off. You have to crank it so hard to get it to turn, that it wiggles loose. I really did give this my best effort and wanted to keep it. I do not want an electric motor, so I didn’t try it with the motor. This is going to come down to personal preference regarding what types of clamping spaces are available to you and how hard you want to have to work for a cup of flour. I was willing for it to be difficult to crank to an extent, but doing that loosens its grip on everything I tried to put it on, and the crank that holds it tends to become stuck. $89 might be a more logical price for this. The amount of flour reflected in the video was 10-15 minutes of repositioning and cranking. I’m probably going to return it.