Flour Mills

The Advantages of our Grinding Stone Flour Mill

Grinding your flour at home provides a number of advantages. When you bake with flour ground just minutes before from wheat berries, it is much fresher than when you buy it preground. Also, you can be confident that there are no additives. Stone grinders offer numerous benefits over steel-wheel grinders.

Flour Mill Whole Wheat

When you buy bulk wheat berries and grind them at home with a stone-grinding wheel, you produce flour with all the wheat’s parts. The grinding of many commercially available flours, even those labeled “whole wheat,” removes either the husk or the germ (the center) from the wheat kernel. This is often done to prolong the product’s shelf life, since it will sit in storage before purchase and consumption. Whole wheat berries have a longer shelf life than ground flour. Most of the flour’s freshness is preserved when you grind wheat berries right before you bake.

Many flours are ground by machines with steel wheels. Because steel gets much hotter than stone through the friction of grinding, the flour it produces is also heated. This can damage the flour’s structure and nutritive value. Also, electrical machines expose the flour to electrical currents conducted by the steel wheels.

Durability

Our stones will last a very long time in our flour mill. Even with daily use, grinder stones won’t need replacement. We are quite unlike our competitor’s flour mill wheat grinders with steel plates that are subject to wear and replacement and metallic debris in your flour.