For the past couple of years I have been grinding my flour with my Blendtec high-speed blender that is over 20 years old and it has worked very well. Main thing for me is: don't fill the container more than halfway for best milling action; push the button for the highest speed and let it run about 60 seconds. I am getting an actual grain mill this week, but will continue to use the Blendtec when I want a coarser grain that my Wondermill will not (which I like to have for making cornbread or something like cream of wheat). Grinding coarser I turn down the speed and stop the milling much sooner and then just pulse it until I see the coarseness I want. I never cut anything with white flour -- but instead with home-milled soft white wheat (or with something like kamut or spelt if I have it). Home-milled whole grain is the BOM...!!!
@@krehbein For a very detailed answer to your question, check out one of Sue Becker's lectures on RUclips. She is a food scientist and explains that freshly ground flour LOSES most of its essential nutrients within days of being ground. Further, it starts to spoil because of the natural oils in it. In the U.S. around the end of the 19th century when a way was invented to grind the grains and REMOVE the natural oils, wheat germ and bran from the flours then the product became WHITE (and even more white after bleaching) and that was what only very wealthy people could eat before that time, because they were the only ones that could afford flour that was so labor-intensive to get all the wheat germ and bran (fiber) out. "White flour" became the delicacy everyone wanted. However, once it became practically the only choice as local millers closed down, the health of the people in the U.S. PLUMMETED. Today, many people find that serious long-term conditions they have lived with begin to lessen or disappear once the person trades out the refined flour and started eating freshly milled breads, cookies, muffins, etc. People USED TO be able to practically LIVE on just bread and water when things got really bad.
Hey this is WA grown! In the Palouse plains out here. It's beautiful to watch the rolling hills change colors from dirt to green to golden it's beautiful 😍
Ha! I have the exact same mill! (MockMill in the background at the start of the video). Also make sure you have a handgrinder backup in case the other one fails or there isn't any electricity (and your generator is busted)
Hey Todd, very interesting video. 👍🏼 Do you guys ever bake the whole wheat-berries into your bread? Do the berries have to be baked or roasted before being incorporated into the dough?
It said tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone.butitsdeath will produce many new kernels a plentiful harvest of new lives
If you bake by weight (meaning, one cup of flour is = 130g), you can simply weigh out that much in wheat berries for milling. This is how I learned to use the various wheat berries. It always give me consistent results when I do it this way.
@@SSLFamilyDad Is there a cheaper alternative for the grinder? I’m an old goat so I would have to leave it in my will in order to recoup the expense.❄️💚🙃
May want to rethink this comment- www.palousebrand.com/collections/grains/hard-white-wheat?gclid=Cj0KCQiA64GRBhCZARIsAHOLriLES8udAhlx_Dupm25g9gHyAXzBBOdrAHBuvdY7icYod-NSutDi9oEaAs-mEALw_wcB The product shown in the video is called wheat berries. That is the name for wheat “kernels “ although I have never heard them called kernels
Well as I live in wheat country, surrounded by literally thousands of acres of wheat, you call the kernels what you want, but berries grow on bushes not head of straw... when the grass goes to seed in your lawn, do you refer to it as grass berries?
Oh thank you for your closing comments. Living a Christ centered life❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❄️💚🙃
For the past couple of years I have been grinding my flour with my Blendtec high-speed blender that is over 20 years old and it has worked very well. Main thing for me is: don't fill the container more than halfway for best milling action; push the button for the highest speed and let it run about 60 seconds. I am getting an actual grain mill this week, but will continue to use the Blendtec when I want a coarser grain that my Wondermill will not (which I like to have for making cornbread or something like cream of wheat). Grinding coarser I turn down the speed and stop the milling much sooner and then just pulse it until I see the coarseness I want. I never cut anything with white flour -- but instead with home-milled soft white wheat (or with something like kamut or spelt if I have it). Home-milled whole grain is the BOM...!!!
Never used home milled grain…. Why is it better?
@@krehbein For a very detailed answer to your question, check out one of Sue Becker's lectures on RUclips. She is a food scientist and explains that freshly ground flour LOSES most of its essential nutrients within days of being ground. Further, it starts to spoil because of the natural oils in it. In the U.S. around the end of the 19th century when a way was invented to grind the grains and REMOVE the natural oils, wheat germ and bran from the flours then the product became WHITE (and even more white after bleaching) and that was what only very wealthy people could eat before that time, because they were the only ones that could afford flour that was so labor-intensive to get all the wheat germ and bran (fiber) out. "White flour" became the delicacy everyone wanted. However, once it became practically the only choice as local millers closed down, the health of the people in the U.S. PLUMMETED. Today, many people find that serious long-term conditions they have lived with begin to lessen or disappear once the person trades out the refined flour and started eating freshly milled breads, cookies, muffins, etc. People USED TO be able to practically LIVE on just bread and water when things got really bad.
@@WholeBibleBelieverWoman Interesting. Thanks for the background, tbh I’m more concerned about getting a better quality result.
Hey this is WA grown! In the Palouse plains out here. It's beautiful to watch the rolling hills change colors from dirt to green to golden it's beautiful 😍
Thank you for another great video, I look forward to these very much 😊
Excellent info and much much needed in my new bread baking big journey
Love the channel … especially closing thoughts…. Thanks again Craig. Pa.
Ha! I have the exact same mill! (MockMill in the background at the start of the video). Also make sure you have a handgrinder backup in case the other one fails or there isn't any electricity (and your generator is busted)
Thing is, if your generator is busted, unless you have a Woodstock, you won't be cooking with flour
Awesome education on something I am lacking in knowledge. Thanks
Azure Standard sells wheat berries in major bulk for not a lot of investment.
Wheat berries are a goldmine
Thats amazing I never saw that before very interesting
Hey Todd, very interesting video. 👍🏼
Do you guys ever bake the whole wheat-berries into your bread? Do the berries have to be baked or roasted before being incorporated into the dough?
Yes im watching here in philippines
You can sprout some of the whole berries too for more nutrition.
Thank you for sharing
I bet spaetzle made with this is delicious....who am I kidding? ALL spaetzle is delicious. :)
Can you use a mortar and pestle to grind them to flour?
Yes you can!
Keep up the good work.
It said tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone.butitsdeath will produce many new kernels a plentiful harvest of new lives
Great video! Thank you!
Nice job.. Thanks! 😉
I live where that brand of wheat is grown!
Thank you so much for the video. Do you sift flour after milling?
I was watching your hatching baby chicks video and I wondering how many days it took to put more water in the incubator
Don't discard the rice.. Save it for even a craft project because you can shape the craft dough for Christmas decorations, bake and paint.
Such cute little bags of wheat 😂
Do you ever sell it to friends and family?
I’m in the uk where can I buy soft white wheat berries or soft white wheat berries ?
I have a vitamix and have grinded my flour with this, but find it has a granule feel. Do you have any suggestions.
What berries should I use to replace all purpose flour in cookies and cakes?
soft white
where you get the wheat ? can you go to feed store buy bulk
Wheat berries and other grains as long as they aren't ground already will last indefinitely.
I like this one. Question... When grinding out the berries, does one cup of berries yield a cup of flour? Or is the ratio something else?
It is pretty close to the same, the flour compacts together a little so it is a bit less
If you bake by weight (meaning, one cup of flour is = 130g), you can simply weigh out that much in wheat berries for milling. This is how I learned to use the various wheat berries. It always give me consistent results when I do it this way.
How does flour go bad?❄️💚🙃
It will actually mold and sour. The freshly milled flour has some moisture in it I believe
@@SSLFamilyDad Is there a cheaper alternative for the grinder? I’m an old goat so I would have to leave it in my will in order to recoup the expense.❄️💚🙃
Why is it so dark? You weren't doing this in the middle of the night were you?
Just about:)
They are called wheat kernels, not berries coming from a farming background is funny to hear city people refer to kernels as berries
May want to rethink this comment- www.palousebrand.com/collections/grains/hard-white-wheat?gclid=Cj0KCQiA64GRBhCZARIsAHOLriLES8udAhlx_Dupm25g9gHyAXzBBOdrAHBuvdY7icYod-NSutDi9oEaAs-mEALw_wcB
The product shown in the video is called wheat berries. That is the name for wheat “kernels “ although I have never heard them called kernels
Well as I live in wheat country, surrounded by literally thousands of acres of wheat, you call the kernels what you want, but berries grow on bushes not head of straw... when the grass goes to seed in your lawn, do you refer to it as grass berries?
I’m to poor to eat healthy
This man is cool but out of rice?