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Grinding your own-Vita mix vs. grain mill

Poll Results: What do you use?

 
  • 20% (1)
    Vita Mix
  • 40% (2)
    Grain MIll
  • 40% (2)
    Other
5 Total Votes  
post #1 of 17
6/15/10 at 12:11pm
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So since we are having to go GF I am wondering which would be better for milling our own? I have seen a lot of you using your Vita Mix but heard they get pretty hot.
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post #2 of 17
6/15/10 at 5:29pm
We use our blend-tec and yes the grains get warm, but I am willing to compromise in that area. Making flour with rice doesn't seem to work.
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post #3 of 17
6/15/10 at 11:23pm
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No one else?
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post #4 of 17
6/15/10 at 11:27pm
I use mine....you would probably get better responses putting this in nutrition and good eating
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post #5 of 17
6/15/10 at 11:30pm
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Thanks!
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post #6 of 17
6/15/10 at 11:39pm
I use a 15-year-old Krups coffee grinder for my buckwheat groats. Works great, but it does get the flour a little warm. I just grind fresh whenever I need it. Of course I can only do about 3/4 cup at a time, but it's not too bad for doing waffles, muffins, etc.
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post #7 of 17
6/15/10 at 11:47pm
I recommend skipping the alternative grains/flours if possible.
For our family, going grain free really accelerated our healing.

Now we dabble in rice a bit, but all my baking is with ground nuts.
And they can be ground in any vegetable processor quite easily.

This said, when we were still doing alternative grains,
I liked our Family Grain mill. Now I just use the veggie attachment.

Good luck!

Oh, and my family LOVES nut bread nut muffins, nut pancakes,
nut cookies, nut crepes, you name it. Way better than grains.
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post #8 of 17
6/15/10 at 11:53pm
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We can not do any nuts. I am just trying to replicate thinks he eats daily.
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post #9 of 17
6/16/10 at 12:23am
I use a grain mill--mine can do all flours well except garbanzo bean. the directions say it can, but they always get stuck.

I love grinding my own grains. I think buying in bulk def saves us money.

I do use my vitamix for blender pancakes, tho.
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post #10 of 17
6/16/10 at 1:38am
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Originally Posted by dannic View Post
I use a grain mill--mine can do all flours well except garbanzo bean. the directions say it can, but they always get stuck.

I love grinding my own grains. I think buying in bulk def saves us money.

I do use my vitamix for blender pancakes, tho.
what mill?
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post #11 of 17
6/18/10 at 11:57am
The vitamix or any blender will allow you to do the Sue Gregg blender batter with any whole grains: http://www.suegregg.com/recipes/brea...erwafflesA.htm

Pat
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post #12 of 17
6/18/10 at 8:36pm
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Originally Posted by JacquelineR View Post
what mill?
I have the wonder or whisper mill. The one I really wanted tho, is the nutrimill by bosch. Pleasant HIll grains has great reviews of different grain mills, ect. HTH!

I grind brown rice, millet, buckwheat, ect. I use a coffee grinder for teff and amaranth and seeds. The nutrimill grinds super-fine, which is great for gf baking. And buying grains in bulk is way cheaper than little bags of possibly rancid flours...
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post #13 of 17
6/19/10 at 9:16am
I use my kitchenaid blender to do the pancakes. It go surprisingly good ratings on one of the sites I saw.

I use a coffee grinder on my other grains. But I don't grind that much b/c I'm lazy.

Can't go grain free b/c we live in a nut free world.
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post #14 of 17
6/19/10 at 9:27am
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Originally Posted by chlobo View Post
Can't go grain free b/c we live in a nut free world.

Why do you say that? We are nut free too.
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post #15 of 17
6/19/10 at 12:46pm
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Originally Posted by scsigrl View Post
Why do you say that? We are nut free too.
It would severely limit food choices. The only flours left for baking (and if you're worried about cc from nuts, I'm not even sure there are sources for any of these) would be buckwheat, potato flour and starch, sweet potato starch, lotus seed flour, tapioca starch, bean flours, water chestnut flour and perhaps meals made from sunflower or hemp seeds... Looking at the list that actually seems like a lot.
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post #16 of 17
6/19/10 at 3:12pm
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Originally Posted by scsigrl View Post
Why do you say that? We are nut free too.
We're not even actually avoiding nuts but there are kids are school who have nut allergies and my DD would never be able to bring anything baked to school if it were made with nut flours. She also has 2 friends with peanut allergies. I'm sure they'd be afraid to come to our house.

Otherwise, I might be temped.
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post #17 of 17
6/19/10 at 3:25pm
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Originally Posted by JacquelineR View Post
Looking at the list that actually seems like a lot.
lol Yeah, doesn't look all that short of a list there at all!
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