A few years ago, I was letting my 3 loaves of my sourdough einkorn bread rise when the power went out. I was panicked that I would lose my expensive einkorn. My husband fired up the charcoal grill and we baked the loaves on it. Some of the BEST bread I’ve ever tasted. Just gave it a different flavor. And the loaves were beautiful.
Love it!! Way to improvise. I would have been so disappointed too because sourdough takes so long to do. And einkorn is expensive enough to cry over lol
"No sirree bob", from a true southern girl😂 I have, use, and love my Wondermill Jr. It is a workout but I don't mind at all. They are definitely well made. One tip to make grinding easier is to "crack" the grain first on a looser setting and running it through again on a tighter setting. Thanks so much for sharing this great video ❤
We would camp with our Dutch ovens (3 different sizes) and make all kinds of food...bread, rolls, cinnamon rolls, roast chicken, pizza, brownies...gotta love those ovens.
Interesting. I would like to try that out. Can you give details? How long did it take? What time of year (mid summer sun is more intense than spring/fall)? Thanks
I've had to hand mill before I got my KoMo. It took quite a while to mill enough for a loaf but it sure made me appreciate my electric mill when I got it. But it also made me think of how our pioneer ancestors had to hand mill or if lucky enough to be close to a local mill. I feel so blessed.
I've been grinding my own wheat, to make all my breads, for about 15 years and continued doing so when I moved off grid 10 years ago. Only difference is I moved from an all-electric house in Florida to my solar powered cabin in Tennessee and now use propane for all my cooking, hot water on demand, and heating. Yes, my solar system does power all my kitchen gadgets, including my NutriMill stone grinder and my NutriMill Artiste mixer.
I've been baking loaf bread on my Weber for about 15 years, hand kneaded and machine kneaded. I was only using 1/2 fresh milled flour when I started doing it but I love the smoky flavor and I cook it right alongside of my ribs or chicken, with potatoes and carrots roasting in foil packs on the coals. Cudos for trying it!
There is another way to make bread without an oven. I’ve used it several times with great success. It’s haybox, thermal cooking, whatever the name it is a wonderful alternative to outdoor off the grid baking. Using the haybox method, you do need some energy (boiling for 10 minutes on stovetop/butane camp stove),then you transfer your breads and finish them off in haybox. It makes a decent bread (crust less) , but quite yummy, and in an emergency a life saver.
I think it’s awesome you attempted this by hand and using a grill. I’m not that dedicated. Instead I’d plug my Bosch Mixer and Nutrimill classic grain mill into my gas generator for a few minutes to get the dough ready. Then I’d bake in my sun oven or my camp chef propane oven. If I was out of gas I’d use my solar generator to power up my $29 KA classic plus mixer with the KA grain mill to process the dough then bake in my sun oven or the camp chef propane oven. Of course the second option would result in one loaf versus the 4 I make in my Bosch but we’d have bread or pizza dough or rolls etc. and yes, I’ve already tried this out to make sure the solar generator can power it. It’s the only reason I got a KA a couple years ago. It’s my backup prep for if we lose power.
Love how prepared you are! And yes, if this was long term situation I would plug in my grain mills and all to help. Because I would need WAY more bread than this on a normal basis lol Also flat breads are great too!!! Super easy!
In Australia, we make bread called damper. We wrap the dough in large leaves and bury it under a fire ,let the fire burn out let the coals smolder and Walla you dig it up. You got bread. If you don’t have really large leaves, you could use aluminum foil.
I lived in a camper for a year and a half. I baked bread, made pies, cookies and most certainly pizza on a gas grill. I do no grinding but buy flour in 50# bags. On our long range hunts, I usually take flour and yeast and bake bread, cinnamon rolls, brownies, etc, on a campstove or over an outdoor firepit. Once in the mountains of Colorado, there was supposed to be a working stove in the mess tent. I took one pkg of rolls and cans of tuna for our first meal and intended to make bread every couple of days after that. (there were only 4 on that hunt.) I made the dough after a morning hunt. It was raising nicely and I went to light the oven. OMG! it didn't work! Now what do I do? No outside campfire and no rocks to support the baking sheet, so I took the three tuna cans, set them upside down on the top of the little wood stove in the mess tent, set the bread pan on top of them and covered with the metal wash tub creating a makeshift oven. It baked perfectly! As a matter of fact, I was taking out cinnamon buns the next morning just as two rangers rode their horses into camp. We chatted and invited them to stay for a bun and a cup of coffee. They said, "well first, could we see your hunting licenses?" After they checked them, they said "ok, it would be hard to refuse." I can remember as a kid (learned to bake bread with mom at the age of 7.) going camping and baking bread in a cast iron pot over the fire. Necessity is most definitely the Mother of Invention, and these days, it doesn't hurt to stay ready to make some simple things in the event of a disaster or even just hard times. Besides making homemade pizza (in a regular oven), noodles, spaetzle (OMG! So good I made them twice this week. Great use for a little leftover gravy or to just serve with butter alongside some fried cabbage. (Actually, because I save my bacon grease, I would have most likely fried them in bacon grease, but you can't complain about fresh spaetzle in butter and cheese alongside almost anything!) After flour the next best staple to have in potatoes. One night I served baked potatoes with fried chicken and green beans. The leftover potatoes and green beans got turned into a potato and green bean stew to which I added heavy cream and grated cheddar. I also had some leftover bacon which I crumbled on top. OMG, so good, and besides a bowl for 2 for dinner I had a free lunch for two days. If you grew up not learning to cook on a budget or in bad times, search for ideas here on RUclips and make one thing at a time. It's not too late!! The subject of this video is baking bread off grid. If you learn to make bread, I promise you, you'll never go hungry any time of the year. I've gotten lazy lately so I make an easy no knead bread a couple of times a week on top pf the counter. I mix 1 2/2 c luke warm water, 1 tsp sugar, 3 cups of bread flour and 1 1/4 tsp salt. I sometimes add some olive oil. Mix it in the bowl until well combined. Cover with a plate. An hour or so later, go wet your hand and grab the edge of the dough and pull it up and over on itself. Continue around the entire dough ball. (This is in effect, developing the gluten in the dough in place of kneading it. Do that about every half hour. The final time, when it has at least doubled, turn it onto a lightly floured countertop. Shape it adding flour on the surface if it is sticky. Shape it into a loaf. Place the dough on a piece of parchment in a covered dutch oven pot. Let it rise one more time until it is a little smaller than you want your loaf. Slash it and put pan in an UNHEATED oven. Turn the oven on at 450 degrees and bake it for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake another 15 minutes. Be careful, the pot is scalding hot. Pull the pan out and carefully lift the bread out to a rack if you have one. Let it cool and enjoy for dinner. It makes wonderful toast in the morning or wonderful grilled sandwiches as well as great garlic bread, and last but not least, use the last couple of pieces to make croutons or grind for breadcrumbs. That's a lot of food for less than a dollar a loaf. I freeze half of it to keep it fresh as well as preventing mold. You really can be self-sufficient with a little effort and if that's your goal.
Good for you! Sometimes, we've just gotta make it work. And it's usually so much better when you do it all from scratch yourself. I highly recommend milling your own grains - they're so much fresher, tastier, and healthier.
Loved this video. So kind of you to go to all this work in light of the hurricanes. So intrigued by your butter holder. Please consider showing us a bit about it. Because...what is bread without butter? Take care ❤
Thank you for doing this video Felicia! I don't have a Bosch mixer and I'm a beginner bread maker kneading by hand 😅 I appreciated seeing how you kneaded your dough to really see how much time it took and what it looked and felt like. I don't have a hand mill but would love to invest in one some day. I DO have a electric one though😊
Nice job!!! Glad you are all doing well! Praying for everyone that was in the aftermath of the hurricanes and that God gives each one what they need!!! Also, that everyone does whatever they can to help each other out, and especially for salvation through Jesus if needed. Thank you for what you can do to help others! 😊💛
I have the drill adaptor too. It works great, but I wanted to actually try it with zero electricity. But yeah if this was a longer-term thing I would probably hook that up lol
I'm your "neighbor" up here in GA ~ we were on the soft side of Helene as far as wind. but got almost a foot of rain. We lost power for part of a night and I was already prepping for a few days of outage...one of my goals was to bake bread on the girl. Glad you did it for me bc I think I would have made a few mistakes. Great video
Perfect! Excellent video! We all need to know these skills ! Who knows when they will be needed long term. I have a fireplace I will be experimenting with this winter. Bit intimidating but will do! Yah willing! Excellent video! I hope my suggestions on kneading helped. 😘
I just ordered a manual grain mill that arrived yesterday! (It's still on sale at Pleasant Hill Grains) Thanks for this great & timely demo. I'm sure it will benefit many who are roughing it out there now. We went for a couple weeks without electricity during our ice storms last winter, and don't want to be caught again without a way to make healthy food for my family and friends. We're praying for y'all! Hope your electric comes back on soon and God's blessings in your recovery.
Felisha, no. I’ve had to knead by hand. I don’t have fancy equipment. Knead for 5 minutes. Cover with your dough pan for about 20 and walk away. Gluten will form on its own without you wearing yourself out. Go back after 20 minutes and knead for 5 minutes. Walk away again for 10-20 minutes, gluten forming on its own. It will now be ready to roll and put in pan for more rise to cook in about 30 minutes depending on your geographic location of temperature. This part can be easy, unlike hand milling. Also when kneading do a few folds then lengthen out like a caterpillar and squeeze and pull that sucker. Tricks I’ve learned doing by hand . Knead for 5 minutes! Walk away for 20 minutes. Come back and repeat. This is much easier. Since you’re making two loaves perhaps have a child doing the second loaf. I’m not sure about that as I only do 1 loaf at a time.
You did great! I’ve never baked bread on a grill but I have baked bread in my Sun Oven. I do have a hand mill out in my storage but not as nice a one as yours. Hope you get your power back soon!
I have the same mill and I go through the wheat in stages. Grind it coarse and then adjust it finer until I get how I want it. It’s more turns with the handle, but easier to push.
You can do it! I do it all the time, no problem :-) 1:1 ratio and I don't have a problem with it being gritty. It may look more "grainy" but it's good!
@@GrainsandGrit yeah, I don't plan on sifting them for anything else. I just didn't know if it would still work to thicken sauces, gravies and soups. I'm excited to hear that it still works!
So thankful to our Heavenly Father y’all are okay. My heart aches and my eyes swollen from crying for all that were effected all up to NC. But our church and members were able to fill up two trailers and get supplies up there. That mill is a workout!!! You need that hand cranked Bosch I sent you the photo….But definitely the 1,000.00 ticket is not wallet friendly. Woot woot on the grill master and his helper for stoking the grill. You did a fantastic job and thank you for showing us it can be done. I now hav a new appreciation for those that went before us and how they made bread. This reminds me of the story of the Little Red Hen but with a better outcome as your family all came to help.
Ha yeah I have a whole new appreciation for our ancestors before us. Makes you realize no one really has an excuse for NOT milling wheat and baking bread lol
Beautiful job. I’m here in Florida and we’ve just been through our second hurricane. We had no power for five days. Just using our generator like you. I feel like a pioneer woman lol I did cheat and plug my mock mill into my generator to grind my weight. We made pancakes and several other things throughout the week. So if you let it have a second rise do you think it would have been a lighter loaf?
No, I don't do a second rise. But I might have let it rise too much on the first rise. But it was our first attempt, so I think it did pretty well! We def ate it up, and it was tasty. We'll try again another time. I love having a basic generator if I need it, but it's so cool also knowing I can make bread without it, too :-)
You did great! Do you have a battery powered drill? If so see if you can rig it up to the handle attachment to do the rotation/grinding. That would save your arms. Yes you will eventually have to recharge it but you have a generator. Yes, I know you’re going old school for this video but this could be an option for those people who don’t have children to assist and aren’t as young and as strong as you. Having a couple extra rechargeable batteries for tools around can help in grid down situations. Check out Rose red homestead YT station. She has suggestions on off grid baking/cooking for more equipment options. The one I invested in was a welding blanket to lay over the bbq to help retain the heat in the bbq - so hubby doesn’t have to hover as much. Got to be frugal with the charcoal briquets because you don’t know how long the event is going to last and/or if you can get more of them.
I do have the drill attachment and if this was more long term I would use it lol And this is why we have the grill that we have because we can always use wood to light it if we don't have charcoal!
Flip that cut end down on the board and it will keep loaf from drying out. We always do this as we cannot stand the smell of fresh milled bread cooling gotta eat some
I used to camp all the time. I've made bread on the campfire. Even pizza. Rigged up an oven with our griddles. I'm sorry you haven't any power yet. Prayers for all
Would you ever double grind the flour instead of sifting? Just curious. I double grind many times in my NutraMill stone grinder. Still praying for everyone affected by the hurricanes!
@@GrainsandGrit I baked living offgrid full time rving for years in dutch ovens. You have to get the number of coals on top and on bottom right for temperature. There are guides online for this. Though, tbh I usually made flatbreads.
It's been an extremely trying time for you all, you have my prayers. Apart from the manual workout, your working surface is a little too high for you. Whenever your arms are working above the heart, it causes more effort and energy. If you had a sturdy table or another bench (that the mill will clamp onto) that was lower, it would reduce your energy output. Easier for kids too 🙂
@@GrainsandGrit Me too! Which is why I notice the height of kitchen work surfaces. My in-kitchen dining table is fairly sturdy, and lower than my kitchen built-in benches, so anything requiring lots of work, like kneading bread, gets done on the table. Not everyone is 5ft 10in like the guy who put the kitchen fitments in...lol.
Yes just think about how much time and effort it took for thousands of years for people to grind grains by hand before larger power mills came about! We live in a wonderful time to have our modern conveniences. No excuse for people NOT to do this 😀
I'm sorry but if i subscribe to a channel about bread I do not want propaganda sent to my e-mail. You can believe what you want, that's a freedom at least in my part if the world, but I do not want you to send your propaganda to me when I expect nice news about bread or grains please. Not what I expected. Normally I hate it when people write and say I will unsubscribe, I mean it's just to unsubscribe isn't it? But when you walk into my personal sphere with something that has nothing to do with what I subscribed for it's enough.
A few years ago, I was letting my 3 loaves of my sourdough einkorn bread rise when the power went out. I was panicked that I would lose my expensive einkorn. My husband fired up the charcoal grill and we baked the loaves on it. Some of the BEST bread I’ve ever tasted. Just gave it a different flavor. And the loaves were beautiful.
Love it!! Way to improvise. I would have been so disappointed too because sourdough takes so long to do. And einkorn is expensive enough to cry over lol
"No sirree bob", from a true southern girl😂 I have, use, and love my Wondermill Jr. It is a workout but I don't mind at all. They are definitely well made. One tip to make grinding easier is to "crack" the grain first on a looser setting and running it through again on a tighter setting. Thanks so much for sharing this great video ❤
lol yep! Southern to my core! And that's a great idea about cracking the grains first! I'll have to do that next time. Thanks for the tip!
You can also bake bread in a Dutch oven on an open fire or woodstove. No power needed.
Gotta love Dutch ovens. I know my Florida Cracker ancestors would bake biscuits in a dutch oven. I need to try it at some point.
We would camp with our Dutch ovens (3 different sizes) and make all kinds of food...bread, rolls, cinnamon rolls, roast chicken, pizza, brownies...gotta love those ovens.
@@GrainsandGrittrick is 2x heat on top vs on bottom and still it burns easily!
I baked a hard red wheat loaf of bread in my sun oven. Perfect.
Interesting. I would like to try that out.
Can you give details?
How long did it take?
What time of year (mid summer sun is more intense than spring/fall)?
Thanks
I've had to hand mill before I got my KoMo. It took quite a while to mill enough for a loaf but it sure made me appreciate my electric mill when I got it. But it also made me think of how our pioneer ancestors had to hand mill or if lucky enough to be close to a local mill. I feel so blessed.
I know! I have a whole new respect for our ancestors who did this by hand. Arms of steel!
I've been grinding my own wheat, to make all my breads, for about 15 years and continued doing so when I moved off grid 10 years ago. Only difference is I moved from an all-electric house in Florida to my solar powered cabin in Tennessee and now use propane for all my cooking, hot water on demand, and heating.
Yes, my solar system does power all my kitchen gadgets, including my NutriMill stone grinder and my NutriMill Artiste mixer.
That's so cool!!! Keep it up!
I've been baking loaf bread on my Weber for about 15 years, hand kneaded and machine kneaded. I was only using 1/2 fresh milled flour when I started doing it but I love the smoky flavor and I cook it right alongside of my ribs or chicken, with potatoes and carrots roasting in foil packs on the coals. Cudos for trying it!
That DOES sound good! Way to go!
There is another way to make bread without an oven. I’ve used it several times with great success. It’s haybox, thermal cooking, whatever the name it is a wonderful alternative to outdoor off the grid baking. Using the haybox method, you do need some energy (boiling for 10 minutes on stovetop/butane camp stove),then you transfer your breads and finish them off in haybox. It makes a decent bread (crust less) , but quite yummy, and in an emergency a life saver.
I think it’s awesome you attempted this by hand and using a grill. I’m not that dedicated. Instead I’d plug my Bosch Mixer and Nutrimill classic grain mill into my gas generator for a few minutes to get the dough ready. Then I’d bake in my sun oven or my camp chef propane oven. If I was out of gas I’d use my solar generator to power up my $29 KA classic plus mixer with the KA grain mill to process the dough then bake in my sun oven or the camp chef propane oven. Of course the second option would result in one loaf versus the 4 I make in my Bosch but we’d have bread or pizza dough or rolls etc. and yes, I’ve already tried this out to make sure the solar generator can power it. It’s the only reason I got a KA a couple years ago. It’s my backup prep for if we lose power.
Love how prepared you are! And yes, if this was long term situation I would plug in my grain mills and all to help. Because I would need WAY more bread than this on a normal basis lol
Also flat breads are great too!!! Super easy!
You got both for $29 ??? 😮 That was a score !!!
@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123 no. I got the KA for $29. Never used. I paid $50 for the grain mill.
In Australia, we make bread called damper. We wrap the dough in large leaves and bury it under a fire ,let the fire burn out let the coals smolder and Walla you dig it up. You got bread. If you don’t have really large leaves, you could use aluminum foil.
That worked very well. I hope you have your power back soon. We only went for two days with Helene and now two days with Milton.
Great video! Thank you...praying for FL
I lived in a camper for a year and a half. I baked bread, made pies, cookies and most certainly pizza on a gas grill. I do no grinding but buy flour in 50# bags. On our long range hunts, I usually take flour and yeast and bake bread, cinnamon rolls, brownies, etc, on a campstove or over an outdoor firepit. Once in the mountains of Colorado, there was supposed to be a working stove in the mess tent. I took one pkg of rolls and cans of tuna for our first meal and intended to make bread every couple of days after that. (there were only 4 on that hunt.) I made the dough after a morning hunt. It was raising nicely and I went to light the oven. OMG! it didn't work! Now what do I do? No outside campfire and no rocks to support the baking sheet, so I took the three tuna cans, set them upside down on the top of the little wood stove in the mess tent, set the bread pan on top of them and covered with the metal wash tub creating a makeshift oven. It baked perfectly! As a matter of fact, I was taking out cinnamon buns the next morning just as two rangers rode their horses into camp. We chatted and invited them to stay for a bun and a cup of coffee. They said, "well first, could we see your hunting licenses?" After they checked them, they said "ok, it would be hard to refuse." I can remember as a kid (learned to bake bread with mom at the age of 7.) going camping and baking bread in a cast iron pot over the fire. Necessity is most definitely the Mother of Invention, and these days, it doesn't hurt to stay ready to make some simple things in the event of a disaster or even just hard times. Besides making homemade pizza (in a regular oven), noodles, spaetzle (OMG! So good I made them twice this week. Great use for a little leftover gravy or to just serve with butter alongside some fried cabbage. (Actually, because I save my bacon grease, I would have most likely fried them in bacon grease, but you can't complain about fresh spaetzle in butter and cheese alongside almost anything!) After flour the next best staple to have in potatoes. One night I served baked potatoes with fried chicken and green beans. The leftover potatoes and green beans got turned into a potato and green bean stew to which I added heavy cream and grated cheddar. I also had some leftover bacon which I crumbled on top. OMG, so good, and besides a bowl for 2 for dinner I had a free lunch for two days.
If you grew up not learning to cook on a budget or in bad times, search for ideas here on RUclips and make one thing at a time. It's not too late!! The subject of this video is baking bread off grid. If you learn to make bread, I promise you, you'll never go hungry any time of the year. I've gotten lazy lately so I make an easy no knead bread a couple of times a week on top pf the counter. I mix 1 2/2 c luke warm water, 1 tsp sugar, 3 cups of bread flour and 1 1/4 tsp salt. I sometimes add some olive oil. Mix it in the bowl until well combined. Cover with a plate. An hour or so later, go wet your hand and grab the edge of the dough and pull it up and over on itself. Continue around the entire dough ball. (This is in effect, developing the gluten in the dough in place of kneading it. Do that about every half hour. The final time, when it has at least doubled, turn it onto a lightly floured countertop. Shape it adding flour on the surface if it is sticky. Shape it into a loaf. Place the dough on a piece of parchment in a covered dutch oven pot. Let it rise one more time until it is a little smaller than you want your loaf. Slash it and put pan in an UNHEATED oven. Turn the oven on at 450 degrees and bake it for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake another 15 minutes. Be careful, the pot is scalding hot. Pull the pan out and carefully lift the bread out to a rack if you have one. Let it cool and enjoy for dinner. It makes wonderful toast in the morning or wonderful grilled sandwiches as well as great garlic bread, and last but not least, use the last couple of pieces to make croutons or grind for breadcrumbs. That's a lot of food for less than a dollar a loaf. I freeze half of it to keep it fresh as well as preventing mold. You really can be self-sufficient with a little effort and if that's your goal.
Good for you! Sometimes, we've just gotta make it work. And it's usually so much better when you do it all from scratch yourself. I highly recommend milling your own grains - they're so much fresher, tastier, and healthier.
Thanks!
Ginger, thank-you so much for your generous superchat. You are amazing. God bless you!
Loved this video. So kind of you to go to all this work in light of the hurricanes.
So intrigued by your butter holder. Please consider showing us a bit about it. Because...what is bread without butter?
Take care ❤
Amen and amen! It's a butter bell I got from Pleasant Hill Grain! Super cute and keeps butterfresh. bit.ly/3AzAlG1
Thank you for doing this video Felicia! I don't have a Bosch mixer and I'm a beginner bread maker kneading by hand 😅 I appreciated seeing how you kneaded your dough to really see how much time it took and what it looked and felt like. I don't have a hand mill but would love to invest in one some day. I DO have a electric one though😊
That's the one to have! The one you will use every day. But yes, in a pinch, it's nice to have a backup.
Nice job!!! Glad you are all doing well! Praying for everyone that was in the aftermath of the hurricanes and that God gives each one what they need!!! Also, that everyone does whatever they can to help each other out, and especially for salvation through Jesus if needed. Thank you for what you can do to help others! 😊💛
Amen!! And Florida is done with hurricanes now. Please and thank you lol
I pray that you and your family are safe and sound from the hurricane
We are. But I think Florida is done with hurricanes for now lol
Felicia, I bought the power drill adapter for my Jr. So as long as it is recharged I can use it instead of muscle.
I have the drill adaptor too. It works great, but I wanted to actually try it with zero electricity. But yeah if this was a longer-term thing I would probably hook that up lol
I have kids! Lol
I'm your "neighbor" up here in GA ~ we were on the soft side of Helene as far as wind. but got almost a foot of rain. We lost power for part of a night and I was already prepping for a few days of outage...one of my goals was to bake bread on the girl. Glad you did it for me bc I think I would have made a few mistakes. Great video
Thank you! And so glad that y'all stayed safe through Helene.
Perfect! Excellent video! We all need to know these skills ! Who knows when they will be needed long term. I have a fireplace I will be experimenting with this winter. Bit intimidating but will do! Yah willing! Excellent video! I hope my suggestions on kneading helped. 😘
Ooh, that might make an interesting video idea!!!
With all this crazy weather this is a great video. I sent it to several of my friends, thanks!
I know, right??? I think Florida would like to opt out of the hurricane-of-the-month club lol Thanks for sharing!
@@GrainsandGritYES! We have had our fill for sure.
great info to help others Ty awesome video
Glad to help
Great video.
I've had same experience with hurricanes.
I could not manage loaf bread but i partly succeeded with flat breads
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It's all yummy! I like making fresh Masienda tortillas over a propane burner in a grid-down.
This is the one I was talking about regarding Dutch Oven Baking: Cowboy Kent Rollins
I just ordered a manual grain mill that arrived yesterday! (It's still on sale at Pleasant Hill Grains) Thanks for this great & timely demo. I'm sure it will benefit many who are roughing it out there now.
We went for a couple weeks without electricity during our ice storms last winter, and don't want to be caught again without a way to make healthy food for my family and friends. We're praying for y'all! Hope your electric comes back on soon and God's blessings in your recovery.
Thanks! We do have power, just no internet. So running a RUclips channel has been interesting the past few weeks lol
Felisha, no. I’ve had to knead by hand. I don’t have fancy equipment. Knead for 5 minutes. Cover with your dough pan for about 20 and walk away. Gluten will form on its own without you wearing yourself out. Go back after 20 minutes and knead for 5 minutes. Walk away again for 10-20 minutes, gluten forming on its own. It will now be ready to roll and put in pan for more rise to cook in about 30 minutes depending on your geographic location of temperature. This part can be easy, unlike hand milling. Also when kneading do a few folds then lengthen out like a caterpillar and squeeze and pull that sucker. Tricks I’ve learned doing by hand . Knead for 5 minutes! Walk away for 20 minutes. Come back and repeat. This is much easier. Since you’re making two loaves perhaps have a child doing the second loaf. I’m not sure about that as I only do 1 loaf at a time.
Thanks for the tips!
Love this !! You go girl 🎉 stay safe 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you!
Great experiment!! We have the same mill with the drill attachment. Boys love toys so my other half does the milling.😊
Love it!!!
You did great! I’ve never baked bread on a grill but I have baked bread in my Sun Oven. I do have a hand mill out in my storage but not as nice a one as yours. Hope you get your power back soon!
Thanks! We got power back after about 4 days but we JUST got our internet back. That was out for 3 weeks!!!
I have the same mill and I go through the wheat in stages. Grind it coarse and then adjust it finer until I get how I want it. It’s more turns with the handle, but easier to push.
You're the second person who has given that advice. I think it's excellent advice! Thank you!
Just call it split top bread.😁
I have a question about using fresh milled grains to make cream of chicken soup. Is it possible? Or would it be gritty?
You can do it! I do it all the time, no problem :-) 1:1 ratio and I don't have a problem with it being gritty. It may look more "grainy" but it's good!
@@GrainsandGrit excellent!! Thank you!! And I don't need to sift out germ/bran?
@@hotmessadhd No, that's the point of milling it ourselves, we want to keep that good stuff.
@@GrainsandGrit yeah, I don't plan on sifting them for anything else. I just didn't know if it would still work to thicken sauces, gravies and soups. I'm excited to hear that it still works!
I’ve been praying for you! I’m so glad you are doing well! 🤗
Thank you so much!!
THANKYOU FOR THE TUTORIAL. XXXX
You are welcome! :-)
Great job 👏🏻
Thank you!
FYI. I ordered the coffee you mentioned yesterday(Im in Central IL) , it is arriving today. Cant wait to try it!
Woo hoo!!! You’ll love it!
I got Four Generations wheat berries this week. Yay
Woo hoo!!!! I know you'll love them!
You need to congratulate yourself 🎉 . All the hard work you did. Being a woman isn’t easy . Pray y’all got through Milton with no issues. Tx
Thanks! Yeah, thankfully Milton missed us. We're still recovering from Helene up here in the Big Bend region.
What a great reminder! I think I will keep a batch ground ahead in case of a power outage. Also thanks for the links!!
Yeah, if you KNOW you may lose power in the future, I would certainly bake all things and/or grind your wheat in advance. Way easier lol
There is a reason why generations of people refer to their work as the daily grind!
So true!!!
Awesome video
Thanks!
So thankful to our Heavenly Father y’all are okay. My heart aches and my eyes swollen from crying for all that were effected all up to NC. But our church and members were able to fill up two trailers and get supplies up there.
That mill is a workout!!!
You need that hand cranked Bosch I sent you the photo….But definitely the 1,000.00 ticket is not wallet friendly.
Woot woot on the grill master and his helper for stoking the grill.
You did a fantastic job and thank you for showing us it can be done. I now hav a new appreciation for those that went before us and how they made bread. This reminds me of the story of the Little Red Hen but with a better outcome as your family all came to help.
Ha yeah I have a whole new appreciation for our ancestors before us. Makes you realize no one really has an excuse for NOT milling wheat and baking bread lol
I did it with my Bread machine! JACKERY did it for us!
I have a sun oven that does a great job baking bread if you have sun. Wonderful for cooking other things as well.
That sounds like a really cool thing to have. I'm gonna have to check that out!
Beautiful job. I’m here in Florida and we’ve just been through our second hurricane. We had no power for five days. Just using our generator like you. I feel like a pioneer woman lol I did cheat and plug my mock mill into my generator to grind my weight. We made pancakes and several other things throughout the week. So if you let it have a second rise do you think it would have been a lighter loaf?
No, I don't do a second rise. But I might have let it rise too much on the first rise. But it was our first attempt, so I think it did pretty well! We def ate it up, and it was tasty. We'll try again another time. I love having a basic generator if I need it, but it's so cool also knowing I can make bread without it, too :-)
I think I will look for a wheel attachment
I’ve been thinking about you and praying for you and your family!! 🙏💕
Thank you! Thankfully Hurricane Milton was south of us, but our area is still recovering from Helene!
I thought it would be run through twice? Once on medium grain, then on fine grain. Can't remember where I heard this.
I keep a couple of loaves of frozen dough in the freezer….just in case !
I have done that quite often.
Can you drop the name of your mill again. Manual mill is still on my want (need) list ❤
Yep! Wonder Jr Deluxe tinyurl.com/ms7yjxaa
You did great!
Do you have a battery powered drill? If so see if you can rig it up to the handle attachment to do the rotation/grinding. That would save your arms. Yes you will eventually have to recharge it but you have a generator. Yes, I know you’re going old school for this video but this could be an option for those people who don’t have children to assist and aren’t as young and as strong as you. Having a couple extra rechargeable batteries for tools around can help in grid down situations.
Check out Rose red homestead YT station. She has suggestions on off grid baking/cooking for more equipment options. The one I invested in was a welding blanket to lay over the bbq to help retain the heat in the bbq - so hubby doesn’t have to hover as much. Got to be frugal with the charcoal briquets because you don’t know how long the event is going to last and/or if you can get more of them.
I do have the drill attachment and if this was more long term I would use it lol And this is why we have the grill that we have because we can always use wood to light it if we don't have charcoal!
Your ceiling fan is running. You have power of some kind.
Yep, had the generator running. But we wanted to do everything by hand to see if it could be done.
If there is anything you need please reach out, Milton missed us. PRaying for you and you family
Aw I appreciate that. I'm definitely ready to be done with hurricanes for a while.
Flip that cut end down on the board and it will keep loaf from drying out. We always do this as we cannot stand the smell of fresh milled bread cooling gotta eat some
Ha I actually did that after recording! lol Great minds think alike :-)
I like your butter dish. what is it?
It's a butter bell! I got it from Pleasant Hill Grain: bit.ly/3AzAlG1
I used to camp all the time. I've made bread on the campfire. Even pizza. Rigged up an oven with our griddles. I'm sorry you haven't any power yet. Prayers for all
That is SUPER cool! Way to go!
Would you ever double grind the flour instead of sifting? Just curious. I double grind many times in my NutraMill stone grinder.
Still praying for everyone affected by the hurricanes!
You could. Except I was totally done milling by hand at that point lol And it really wasn't much at all, I didn't see the need.
@@GrainsandGrit makes total since!
I’m glad we bought a manual Country Living grain mill when we did… paid about $375.. they are now about $750..😳
Wow yeah you did get it at a great price!
We bought it in 2016!!!
So, you have a generator running that overhead fan? 🤔
Yes, a simple ceiling fan and lights can be powered by a generator.
You can cook anything on grill or over open fire. Hopefully you all got cast iron. ❤
Definitely!
Off grid baking use dutch oven with legs with coals on top and bottom. Works the same as a gas oven.
Yep!! I haven’t tried that though, but i need to 😀
@@GrainsandGrit I baked living offgrid full time rving for years in dutch ovens. You have to get the number of coals on top and on bottom right for temperature. There are guides online for this. Though, tbh I usually made flatbreads.
@@Dorn-Dvinn. So much to learn! Yah help us all. I want to be skilled in doing this!
Great job grilling the bread from a pitmaster real bread baker!
Thank you!
It's been an extremely trying time for you all, you have my prayers. Apart from the manual workout, your working surface is a little too high for you. Whenever your arms are working above the heart, it causes more effort and energy. If you had a sturdy table or another bench (that the mill will clamp onto) that was lower, it would reduce your energy output. Easier for kids too 🙂
I'm a shorty, lol
@@GrainsandGrit Me too! Which is why I notice the height of kitchen work surfaces. My in-kitchen dining table is fairly sturdy, and lower than my kitchen built-in benches, so anything requiring lots of work, like kneading bread, gets done on the table. Not everyone is 5ft 10in like the guy who put the kitchen fitments in...lol.
Spend so much time all without power cooking on a grill...
Yes just think about how much time and effort it took for thousands of years for people to grind grains by hand before larger power mills came about! We live in a wonderful time to have our modern conveniences. No excuse for people NOT to do this 😀
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Well, I'm not just a channel about bread. I'm a channel about BIBLICAL GRAINS - so if pro-life coffee beans offend you, you're welcome to unsubscribe.