Home Ground Flour: A FAST Way To Sift Out Bran To Make Home-Ground WHITE Flour Without Hand Sifting!
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- I finally figured out how to make all purpose flour at home from your own home ground flour (whole grain) without tedious sifting for hours and hours. Timestamp for those of you in a hurry - the magic starts at 4:19.
Seriously this is the best thing I have come up with all year. I don’t even know if this would be better called “how to bolt flour” because bolting flour was traditionally what it was called when you sift out bran from whole grain flour. As opposed to sifting flour for a particular recipe which is NOT what we’re doing here.
And because power tools are fun 🙂 This DIY flour sifter is the most efficient way I’ve come up with to sift large amounts of home-ground flour to make “white” flour that is suitable for finer things like white breads, cookies, etc. It’s a massive time saver for anyone who bakes large amounts of breads or anything with their own homeground flour but would like a “white” flour without spending hours and hours sifting
Back massager sifter video by Dan Ayo: • Sifting Bread Flour wi... (I didn't go this route because these big back massagers are $$$)
Here’s what I used (Aff. links when applicable). Note - the sifters can vary in price but at the time I made this video you can pick them both up together for under $40:
20 mesh sifter - amzn.to/37hZDcg
60 mesh sifter - amzn.to/30GSrFF
60 mesh sifter I’d buy in hindsight (larger) - amzn.to/3cOJNHu
Black & Decker Battery Reciprocating Saw - amzn.to/2Yoabmb (don’t forget the battery)
For blades - any old reciprocating saw blades will do - this is a good use for old dull blades.
Mockmill 100 - mockmill.us/pr...
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#cookingfromscratch #flour #sifting
Awesome idea! I'd just drill 2 holes in a blade and use stainless button head cap bolts to bolt the blade to a stainless 12" pipe clamp. That way you can just tighten the clamp around your sifters without modifying them permanently.
I LOVED the fanfare music during the "big reveal first sift".😅😅😅 Thanks for sharing! 🧡
You win the top prize for ingenuity! You go girl!
I take the bran, mix with orange juice, and pour on silicone mats very thinly, and toast in oven, or dehydrate, on mat, then toast on a cookie sheet. Then i break it up and make orange bran flake cerial. You can use water, or another kind of juice. It does have a habit of sticking, so thats why silicone works well.
Well that sounds yummy!!
Yes Bethany, that is INDEED the coolest thing I have ever seen!
Now, FINALLY, we can make LIGHTER TEXTURED, whole grain bread with our freshly ground grains because we can use half "whole grain" (with the bran) and half "all purpose (almost) white" that has the bran sifted out.
I have been needing this solution for decades ..... thank you soooooo much for figuring it out and for SHARING it with us.
You are AWESOME girl!
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And, in case there is any doubt, yes I happily subscribed to your channel and will see what else you have made videos about.
Happy baking! 😊
Yeah it's a game changer! Thanks for subbing!
Grind off teeth of the blade drill a hole through the blade and sifters. Use a bolt with a lock washer and wing nut so you can easily mount blade on the saw and then bolt to sifted. Great idea!!
thanks,my hubby is handy,im gonna ask him to make this for me,cool idea thanks!
Thank you so much for sharing this. About 10 years ago I started doing this and took a break from bread making for a few uses. I am glad there are so many more options for sives and this is a crate hack. If you have a sourdough start feed the gram to your start, it will be supper active with all the yeast and break down the gram so that you don't hardly know it is there.
Thanks for this cool idea. I have a skill-saw I could use to similar effect. I think I'll drill a hole in the tip of an old blade and run a coat hanger through it, then I can attach the hanger to my sifter handle. It should work.
I'm working on some sour dough machinations and want to ferment and soak the bran longer than the flour portion for a softer and more flavorful sourdough. Thanks again!
That scene when you first turned on the death sifter was hilarious, especially set to the music. I was thinking, when making cast pieces of jewelry, we pour plaster around wax representations of the jewelry we want to make. The container that holds the plaster and wax is then put on a vibrating surface to eliminate any bubbles. I can’t remember what the machine is called but I bet you that would work really well. Since it’s for jewelry casting, it’s not that big. Now you’ve given me ideas.
"death sifter" 😂😂😂
Hey, great video, was hooked by then end. To answer your question, I'd drill a hole through the sivs and blades and rivet them together in place, once I've made the blades safe from the serated edges. The reason I'd go against the JB weld is that it is brittle and bits may break off if you use full power straightaway or if the saw is not in level with the siv.
That is absolutely brilliant! What a creative solution! Congrats ❤️🙏❤️
Thank you so much for sharing it. It was great idea, I have mock mill and after grinding the most of time you are spending to sift the flour . I was trying to figure it out how to make white flour and could not find the easiest way until I saw your
love this,i just started watching vieos to start making my own flour,and after seeing all the wheat grinds,first thing I wanted to know was how do i get fresh white flour,so thank you great video. i'm glad for your video,you probably just gave the idea to mill companies to make the white flour converter shaker,lol to othe machines,awsome! love this video
Love this idea! I actually had some flat blades for my reciprocating saw - (like a mini jackhammer for small tile removal projects, etc.) that's got me thinking to try one of those blades. Love the creativity!
Cool! Very creative. I am just looking into getting a few sifters and was looking for ideas. You definitely gave me a good idea. I have a mill, but am getting frustrated with heavy bread loaves. I am going to try sifting the bran out, and then reintroducing (gently folding it in) before shaping the loaves. I am hoping this will create a lighter loaf while still retaining the nutritional profile of whole wheat flour.
Sift out the bran, then keep the bran and add it to oatmeal, cream of wheat, soups, casseroles, really anything for added nutrition. Or, buy clear gelatin capsules (size 00) on Amazon and make your own wheat germ supplements. Refrigerate them and take them within a few weeks.
This is hilarious and extremely satisfying to watch. Kudos to your ingenious idea!
Thank you very much!
Check into black powder screens they go as small as 100.
Whoah that would be great! Thanks for letting me know!
I am just starting out with grinding wheat that I bought at the feed store, yes people think i am crazy but a 40 pound bag of wheat is $10.99 that will will make tons of flour. I am grinding mine with a ninja and sifting with a regular flour sifter but it works for now. I have to try to make bread next. One step at a time. Glad there is somebody who had the same thought as I did.
You are so right! I just started buying 25lb bags of wheat from a bird store. Same thing...about $10 or $11
I pour my flour all into the sifting pan and put the entire pan into a plastic bag. With the left hand close the plastic bag loosely around the wrist of right hand and use right hand to vigorously shake the pan. The flour all falls into the plastic bag and none flies into the air. It is very fast and neat.
Oh I bet I could do that to combine methods with my contraption, thank you!
Very fun vid. Thanks for sharing with us !
Great video! I would use a fine holed tea steeper with a back massager, which is how we sift. The bigger tea steeper’s hold about 3/4 to 1 cup. Works great for us. Have fun experimenting! 👍😊
I really enjoyed your video and your ingenuity. I’ve just started making my own whole wheat bread again after many years. It’s been fun to re-learn the techniques needed. I also enjoy making cracked wheat mush. It is so delicious. My grinder has varying settings for cracked, bread and cake. But even at the cracked setting, I get too much flour and that makes mush gummy. So I have the opposite issue that you have had. I tried sifting using a strainer. It worked but was very laborious. So I’m planning to get a crank sifter like my grandma used. Thanks again!
Grind off the serrated end of those blades and tach weld (or JB weld, depending on the tools you have access to) the blade on the strainers before you cut yourself.
Oh right! Yeah the edges on the blades are one of the annoying bits, I might see about grinding them off. I don't have a welder so I think I'm gonna try JB weld first and see how that holds up. I also thought if I could rivet it on that could work but not sure if I want to get set up to do that.
@@UncleDutchFarms
Jb weld is strong stuff, should do the trick. Just rough up the area of the strainer you wish to gkue it to a little with sandpaper or a rock to give it something to "grab" onto and it should hold up fine.
FYI the putty type or "steel stick" sets up a lot quicker than regular jb weld and won't have to worry about runs or the piece falling off before it cures. ☺
Good going girl!!!
They sell magnetic vibrating transformers. One just need a steel frame or a piece of metal attached to your screen frame. One can also make a slight offset bolt and put it through the shifting bowl and attach a drill.
Good thinking! You might try a palm sander without the paper. Great tips on the mesh sizes.
Interesting - suggest a Bosch (or other) 12V reciprocating saw - less expensive and much easier to hold. Yes, use a grinder to remove the teeth for safety (although you might leave a bit where the attachment will be) , bend the blade to try to match the curvature of the sieve, roughen the surfaces and JB weld or other epoxy should work fine.
You are a Rock Star! I have mixed my whole wheat flour with store bought white for years. Thanks for sharing this great how to. I think I am going to try a vibrating sander because your saw looks a little scary.
Génial! I will certainly try this. You are a genius woman!
WOW!! Great video and very inventive. I had Never thought about making my own flour before, gives me something to ponder. God Bless You and Yours
Thanks!! You too!
I think you are brilliant. I love the whole wheat flour, but not all the time!
Omg this is awesome, my husband works at home Depot and says will have to tell customers this , so great
Genesius. I am so thankful for this video
I’m going to try that! I’m thinking I would use a very small C-clamp, but cut some small pieces of that rubber material that you put under things to keep them from sliding. I would put a piece inside and outside of the blade, and another inside the rim to hold tight.
Love! Thank you so much!
Good for you. I agree, it can take forever to sift a few cups of flour when you're really trying to get all the bran out you can. I'm looking for an easier way too. I just bought a Nutrimill Artiste mixer to make bread with since making bread killed my KitchenAid 600 Pro. The Nutrimill Artiste is similar to a Bosch mixer, but more reasonable at $199. Now the point, they have a $90 flour sifter attachment that has a 70 mesh screen. I'm tempted to give it a try.
Thank you, you are a brave and adventurous explorer. Using what you have in ways that blow my mind. Tape and sawzall blades supported by nothing bur your hand. Bravo!
lol thanks! I'm generally relatively cautious but sometimes I get a wild idea and then it's "hold my beer!" time 😂
Hi Bethany, You have answered so many questions for me here on our health journey with organic grains/food on our small Tennessean Homestead. I invested into a Vitamix. It is so awesome but, my frustration with soft wheat berries and hard wheat berries is not that the Vitamix doesnt do the job, it does fantastically but I want to do pie crusts and organic whole wheat breads that do not weigh a ton (Lol)... I struggle to get the breads to rise. So, I recently found out like you know already that freshly ground wheat berries will always give you a heavy but delicious bread. All my breads are healthy and good but heavy and do not rise much. So I will use your idea and today I ordered a 40 and 60 sizes strainers from Amazon. They will arrive this Monday before Thanksgiving and my desire is to make home made rolls and flacky pie crusts that my mother always did during the holidays. Love your idea. I will use my old but workable electric knife to see if it will do the same with what you are doing. If it works, I will upload it to my utube channel also. Your ingenuity is great. My son is in the military and stationed in the Tacoma area with his family. Washington state is beautiful. Many successes in your wonderful lifes journey. God Bless, Wayne
Hey Wayne, did you ever try it out? I had some stuff come up and ended up putting away my contraption and now I'm moving so I haven't been able to finalize anything on this design yet, but curious to see if it worked for your pies.
I absolutely love your ingenuity! Showed it to my hubby & he said "looks like something you'd do!" Lol...great minds think alike I guess. This was the only video I found on doing this, every other left the germ in/on not sure of the term but it doesn't seem like it would make very delicate pastries (French) which I love making & do a lot of. I'm just getting started & doing research before investing, so THANK YOU!!! This was a life saver for me. God Bless
This was amazing and so helpful! Love it!
That made me laugh sooo hard! Because it's something I would do too but haven't thought of it yet! LOL Thanks for this tip...and the laugh!! :D
awesome idea to sift out the bran. my flour is ground so fine under the pastry flour setting in my WonderMill that its hard to sift out, so i just bake with it. problem is, its no good for fine pastries like donuts or eclairs. i want to try a superfine sifter and see if it gets anything. my WonderMill did used to heat up the flour a little bit, but what i did was put the wheat berries in the freezer for a few minutes and that did the trick.
Have you tried using soft wheat berries for your pastries? Then play with adding some to hard wheat while grinding helps to lighten up my bread. I like 1/4 soft wheat to 3/4 hard wheat berries.
A multi-tool (sometimes referred to as oscilating tool) is smaller and probably easier to attach and handle.
Thanks for a cool video! I had no idea sifting my flour could help. I have a hand grinder and would keep regrinding the flour. God bless you and your family!
What a great video! I loved your excitement.
Watching Christmas Eve 2023. Merry Christmas 🎄
A case polisher from a gun store would have the perfect motion. They use them for polishing ammunition cases for reloading.
Oh interesting, thanks! I'll look into that.
Brilliant, I shall never again have to buy white flour! Into the compost shall go my bran (or maybe I'll just make some oatmeal & bran cookies)
OMG! I love you!!
Oooooh this has my homesteading brain churning. Welding a blade attachment to sieves of different meshes with some sort of quick release on a stand you can mount to the counter with a heavy spring to soak up vibrations….hmmm
MoMacGyver!!
This lady is brilliant
You could either have someone tac weld it to it or have a hole drilled through both with a tin strap wrapped around the sifter frame.
You are amazing. This is quite creative.
I love it! Thanks so much. I’ve just ordered my mockmill, I’m so excited.
I'm laughing because it looks funny. But totally clever and smart. Love it. Try a self rapping screw. Or drill a hole to bolt them together. Not what I expected to learn from this video. Then you for the bonus. Lol
THank you!
Why do we need to pass flour first through the bigger sieve and then the smaller one. Why can't we pass it through the finest mesh the first time
Mainly because the bigger pieces of bran can make it harder to sift out. It makes the whole process go faster.
Brilliant.....Amazon now sell a auto sifter, but it eats too much counter space and costs 170.$...it is easy to buy 60/80/100/120 mesh selves on line
Let's Go Bran! ♥️
They now make battery powered sifter. It is a lot less messy
I know it's been two years since posting this but I'm wondering, why start with a 20 mesh? Couldn't you just start with a 60? Maybe I'm missing something. Thanks, it was very informative. I've been wanting to sift the bran out of my whole wheat. This was helpful.
Oh, the link for the 60 mesh you'd buy in hindsight is broken. Thanks.
Hey! The reason you start off with a bigger mesh is that it catches all the big bran pieces. If you jump right to the fine mesh, it tends to take longer and clog things up.
Please say about the quality of reciprocating saw. Is it for regular use. How long will it work?
how about self stick comercial velcro 2pieces for easy on easy off. GREAT VIDEO !!!!!!!!, I knew my cordless bosch and old blades would be useful for something God Bless You and your family. keep these vids coming please
THank you!! I might try that!
The reason I am watching you video is, I just ground some flour today and sifted it through my kitchen strainer..with unsatisfactory result. Thus I was searching for a better result and a 'how to'. I guess I need to get some finer strainers. Thanks!!
You're welcome! I think the finer strainers is important - because most "sifters" don't get nearly fine enough - but sifting it all by hand is incredibly tedious as well... I still have to make some improvements on my system for sure but it's nice to have the mechanical advantage.
@@UncleDutchFarms I'm still having an issue with it. It's probably my Scottishness and I probably shouldn't grind the sifting a second time. My flour ends up 'granular' like fine semolina flour
@@HeatherNaturaly Oh interesting, I don't think I've ever had that result. Could be sifter, or wheat, or both.
@@UncleDutchFarms I've no idea. Do you grind the first sifting again? The sifter is 60 mesh. It just seems to give so little return in flour on the first grind. I can always feed it to the chickens, but I was hoping for a higher flour yield
@@HeatherNaturaly I'm not sure how much is supposed to be there, but I do know that part of why you would use a larger weave sifter is because the flour particles get stuck to the bran and you might get a higher yield with less work than you would just using a 60 mesh sieve. That's why I do graduated ones. I don't think I've ever felt disappointed in how much flour I got. But again, it might also be due to the wheat as well.
Great Idea!! Congrats!!
THIS is ab..solutely.. fabulous.. knowledge!! THANK you!!
Sift over a deep commercial cookie sheet. Instead of tape, maybe melt a rubber ball to form an attachment that fits on the sieve lips, with a slit to put the saw blade thru? Ha! And go to town! Or get extra blades and sauder one to each sieve?..
Could also put it on the washing machine while it's running
You are a genius
Use rivets to attract the saw blade.
Horrifying yet perfect!!!
You can get 80, 100, and 120 mesh sifters and screens, especially as stainless steel lab seives. You can even get 140, 160, and 180 for gluten free flours (they are better finer).
THANK YOU
I would look for a printshop paper jogger.
Way Awesome
I'm wondering if an electric knife might work as well. I agree with those saying to remove the sharp edge of the blade and weld it to the sifter.
ohh yeah I bet it would, too. And yes sharp edges do need to be removed for sure.
I didn't see any follow up on the attachments. JB weld will probably eventually break just because the bond to stainless wont be the best and there are a lot of high leverage torsional forces that concentrate stress. I think the most appropriate choice would be a rivet. I'd buy the longest widest blad I could for the saw (probably a pruning blade because they tend to be pretty cheap and made from softer steel) toss the whole thing into the woodstove or a wood or charcoal fire to take the temper off completely. Grind off the teeth and drive for the rivet, then drill the sieve and rivet them together.
I haven't done anything permanent with this yet - I know it's terrible because it's been a lng long time since I came up with this but I got busy and stuck it away, and now I'm moving... but it will be a while. I agree that JB weld would be a longterm temporary solution, and welding would be the best way to do it. I appreciate your tips!
So clever! Very cool to see.
Thank you! 😊
This is a really cool idea. Thank you so much for this video
I have to be gluten free, so i use almond flour but it is often too rough for some recipes.
I am sure that would work with my massage gun as well, since it does do the same motion as the knife.
I have been sifting my almond flour for almost 20 minutes yesterday, i am sure this would speed up the process so much
oh wow I didn't even think of that, but yes I bet it would work! I don't think you even need that fine a mesh for almond flour, since it doesn't get as fine as wheat flour. Did you ever try it?
Brilliant !!!!!! We are sisters from another Mother ! LOL I presume you had the Mockmill on the smallest setting?
Holy cow!!!!! Thank you!!!!
hot melt glue...good video
This is very cool thank you for sharing
just a thought, if you use plumbers tape ( It's a flexable metal with holes it, this makes it adjustable ) and know loop it all the way around the screen to find a center point, know you don't have to work so hard to hold it balanced. Side note, when you find the other screen, hopefully it will be the same size and know the loop can be slipped off and used as one piece.
I think out of all the ideas I've gotten, this is going to be the one I use, mainly because I feel like the only other option would be welding and I'd like to figure out a way to do this without hiring someone. Thank you!
Super cool 😊
Thank you for sharing!
You are a GENIUS
Omg that is awesome 👏
Brilliant.
Genius!!!
Very inventive. However, I have to say if I’m going to just sift out all that expensive brand and germ and whittle my flour down to just endosperm I would just assume by some inexpensive white flour at the store.
Vice grips 👍
This is so me lololol I will figure out how to do something with what i got ;) love this........ and my mockmill :)
Thank you for saving me 165.00 along with another bulky kitchen appliance.
Your a genius
The saw is a bit violent and the blade will come off easily. Look at how prospectors sieve, some use windscreen motors repurposed...
Love it!
Genius! I thought KitchenAid has a sifting attachment.
Does the germ pass through the sieve?
will a sonicare toothbrush work? Do you have a oscillating tool?
This is great. I have been trying to buy refined oat flour (white) but apparently it doesn't exist. What do they do after they make all those oat brand they sell?? I guess I have to sift my own.
Cool idea. Is there anything else that'd work just as efficiently as this saw? I'm a bit scared of the sharp blades. When I added "back massager" in search, I didn't find any device for it that goes back and forth, and I presume it wouldn't be as fast as this saw. How about an electrical flour sifter, would that work, so long as we have the device attatched to a fine mesh?
I think they do have those sifters but they are $$$, so I was trying to figure out a cheap option.
What do I buy--wheat berries?