About hand mills

With the advent of appliances such as home grain mills, cooking healthy dishes made of flour has become even more accessible and simple. This will especially delight those who monitor their diet and understand the importance of every little thing. Freshly made flour, rich in vitamins and fiber, is incomparably healthier than store-bought flour.

The assortment presented in our catalog allows you to choose household mills of any size and performance, both mechanical and electrical. Grain mills for the preparation of flakes and cereals are very popular. If desired, you can purchase a set including a mill and a grain press.
The advantage of hand mills is that they do not require a network connection. You can take them with you on a trip, use them where there is no electricity. Select the size of your hand mill to suit your needs.
Electric models are convenient in restaurants or homes where it is used a large number of flour daily. Grinding speed and productivity are higher in such devices.

What can be made from homemade flour

Nutritious, healthy flour can be made from different cultures... Buckwheat, oats, corn, barley, rice are especially useful. Most flours cannot be found in the grocery store. Bread made from homemade buckwheat or rye flour, is a real treasure of microelements. By adding a little of such bread or cereals to your menu every day, you can get the body's necessary supply of magnesium, iron, calcium and other essential substances.
In this case, the degree of grinding can be adjusted. Mixed flour is used for baking bread, getting the most pleasant consistency.
A home-made grain mill is an indispensable thing in the kitchen of any raw food eater. Coarse flour in a dehydrator makes delicious bread, biscuits and tortillas.
When choosing a model, pay attention to what types of grain it is designed for: not all are suitable for grinding oilseeds and nuts.

What determines the price of a household mill

When buying this useful device at home, decide what you expect from it: size, performance, functions, quality.
The most durable mills are German-made.

The material of the body and millstones matters.
... The most durable case is made of solid beech, linden, birch, in elite models it can be cedar.
... The millstones are made from an alloy of a stone block of corundum and ceramics. A good option is with stone millstones and steel rollers - in this case, you can make both flour and muesli. This will cost more, but it will save space in the kitchen. The industrial household mill is equipped with high-strength and environmentally friendly granite millstones.

In the store "Khlebomoly" you can not only order a mill made in Germany and Switzerland, get the joy of healthy food, but also take a master class on cooking delicious dishes.

The times when it was necessary to build a large stone mill to obtain flour have long since sunk into oblivion. Modern devices for grinding grain are practical and compact, and allow you to get flour from different types of grain crops. At home, you can make a mill of two types: manual and electric.

The electric home-made mill can produce both coarse, medium and fine flour. The size of the fraction is set in the settings. The advantages of a home grain mill are the ability to process a wide variety of raw materials: rice, buckwheat, wheat, soy, rye, corn, oats or millet.

The power of the simplest home device will allow you to grind a bucket of corn to a flour-like state in five minutes, and a similar volume of wheat in just two minutes.

Required materials and parts

Making a mill with your own hands is not difficult if you have all the materials and tools. Before making a mill, it is recommended that you study the diagrams and drawings well. You can find them on the Internet at any thematic forum. Drawings will help you understand the principle of fastening parts, electrical assemblies, cutting elements, and avoid many assembly errors.

The mill device includes:

• Motor (a motor from an old washing machine will do),
• Support for the motor,
• Stanin,
• Receiving bunker,
• Rotor and stator,
• Loading hopper.

From the materials you must also have:

• 20 bolts m6,
• Steel corners,
• Sheet steel with a thickness of at least 6 mm,
• Screeds,
• Clutch,
• Sheet steel for the manufacture of the lid, at least 3 mm thick,
• 10 screws m6,
• A pair of bearings, number 203.

Manufacturing process

The design of the grain grinder is very simple. Manufacturing also does not require special efforts if you buy all the parts you need. Some craftsmen prefer to make at home not only the device itself, but also the component parts.

In order to assemble a completely home grain mill you need experience with lathe and drilling equipment.

Rotor assembly

The most important element of an electric mill is the rotor. The process of making it is quite laborious, and before starting work, you need to remember several important points:

• The shaft of the rotor to be manufactured must be of variable cross-section,
• The shaft is made of round steel,
• The work process is divided into several stages.

The first stage includes the preparation of metal blanks. The workpiece must have several identical holes with a radius of 5 cm. The second stage is to erase the outer layer of the workpiece so that the groove in size decreases to 10.5 cm. With this size, the working teeth of the future rotor are opened.

Further, the rotor is poisoned for hardening. Hardening takes place in two stages. The first is in an oven at a temperature of eight hundred degrees, the second is in an oil container. It is not recommended to cool the workpiece cold water: the metal will become brittle. The next step is vacation: the rotor is heated to four hundred degrees, and left at room temperature until it cools completely.

The rotor is attached to the shaft by two bearings, which increases the strength of the mill. A small spacer ring is attached to the shaft between the bearings. They allow the bearings to move along the shaft to create more tension.

Assembling the stator

It is very difficult to make a stator at home, so it is recommended to buy a ready-made element. Several threaded holes are made in the stator for the bearing caps and the stator itself, as well as for the branch pipe and the loading box. For greater accuracy of the mill, you need to correctly set the coordinates on the stator. This is done with a few bolts.

Assembly of the bed

The frame is also an important part of the mill. The base is made of thick sheet steel. The stator is attached to the frame with screws, which at the same time will hold the tube. If a removable branch pipe is planned, then it must be attached to the opening in the base corresponding to the diameter of the part. The removable tube is held in place only by frictional force.

A branch pipe is made from a cut of a pipe, with a diameter of about 3 cm. The pipe can have either a circular cross-section or a square one. Next, a box is assembled for loading from a sheet of iron. The iron sheet is bent into the desired shape, and the seams are soldered. The finished box is installed on the stator and bolted.

Mounting the motor

The grain mill is operated by an electric motor. Together with the motor you need to have:

• Capacitor,
• Toggle switch,
• Fuse.
• The motor is installed together with the accessories on the dielectric plate.

An important point: the motor shaft must be coaxial with the crushing rollers, and a coupling is used to transfer the rotating element.

The device is ready for use. It remains only to fill the grain in the hopper for loading and turn on the device.

Hand mill

A do-it-yourself mechanical mill is made much lighter than its electrical counterpart, and its performance is quite high. It consists of two parts - a millstone and a frame with a handle.

Millstones for a mill

It is very important for a productive mill to find good millstones. The subsequent grinding and the durability of the crusher depend on the quality of the stones. Usually, suitable stones can be found in special workshops, or found on the banks of the river and processed by yourself. The processing of future millstones is carried out using a grinder with a diamond disc of at least 23 cm in diameter. A powerful drill is required to punch holes in the center of the stones. The optimum diameter of the finished millstones is 22-24 cm, and the height is 10-12 cm. You can make millstones of a larger size, but smaller ones are not desirable. The greater the weight of the stones, the better the flour will be ground.

A hand mill should consist of two millstones and a base. The upper millstone is called the runner, and the lower millstone is called the lower millstone. The runner is usually made lighter, as after each work cycle he is lifted to remove the remaining flour. A hole is necessarily drilled in the runner to enter the center of the grain. It is better to drill with a special diamond-coated drill, and in the process, cool the drilling site with cold water.

The next step in making a home grain mill is cutting the notches on the millstones. They should have the shape of grooves with a triangular cross-section, a width of about 10 mm, a depth of at least 2 mm and at least 4 mm in the bottom and slider, respectively. In the center of the slider, four large grooves are made eight deep and fifteen millimeters wide. It will be easier to understand the location of the notches and holes if you find a ready-made project or drawings of a millstone hand mill.

Making the skeleton

A home grain mill should have a sturdy wooden frame. It supports the lower millstone and centers the runner. At the bottom of the wooden frame, a small cut is made for flour. The hole can be closed with a sieve with a mesh of the desired size - the flour will be sifted independently, and does not require additional processing. A metal clamp is attached to the slider, to which the handle is attached.

A do-it-yourself mill made according to this scheme will last for many years, and is able to grind the most different types and types of grain.

About hand mills

True connoisseurs of coffee and all lovers of making flour at home will definitely appreciate the hand mills. A large number of hand mills from different manufacturers are waiting for all connoisseurs of gourmet cuisine on the site of the "KhLEBomoly" company.

Once upon a time, people used a mortar and pestle to grind grain. Years and centuries have passed, and today mills, both manual and electric, rise in orderly rows on store shelves.

A home hand mill is a machine that grinds grain and other products. On the website of the company "KhLEBomoly" there are kitchen appliances that will become indispensable helpers of any housewife, both in the kitchen and on vacation or travel. Many are wondering what a hand mill is for when you can choose an eclectic model? But here, too, there are some nuances.

The advantages of hand mills:

1. - Complete preservation of the taste of the product

True connoisseurs of the drink, beloved by many, note that the hand mill allows you to completely control the taste and strength of the coffee. The millstones of the aggregate gently but thoroughly grind the grains, preserving the amazing taste and exquisite aroma... Therefore, a manual coffee grinder is a great option for correct preparation everyone's favorite drink. And there is a simple explanation for this. Only a manual coffee mill, which you can buy right now, allows you to correctly determine the number of beans that will be needed for one brewing.

1. - Compactness

Hand mills take up so little space that they can easily fit even in a small kitchen area. The unit does not require special storage conditions; the unit should only be regularly cleaned from dust, as well as traces of processed grains and flour.

1. - Environmental friendliness

The body of the models of hand mills presented on our website is made of wood, and the millstones are made of basalt, steel and granite. Basalt is the material that has been used to make hand mills since biblical times! Granite is an igneous rock, which is characterized by increased strength and hardness. Needless to say, units made of such materials will serve their owner for more than a year or two!

The company "KhLEBomoly" piously honors traditions healthy eating... Hand mills are one of the prides of our company. After all, it allows you to grind grain into flour without losing taste! A magical transformation, isn't it?

There is probably no more comfortable smell than the smell of freshly baked bread - even more so if this bread is made from whole grain flour which you yourself ground. Lookbio starts. With this material we open a series of consumer tests of gadgets for healthy eating from the Khlebomoly online store. Today our reader Elena Zheleznyak will talk about the most important "bread" gadget - a mill, with which you can grind flour for baking the best, most delicious, homemade bread

A home grain mill is every baker's dream. I dreamed about her too, because homebaked bread, homemade sourdough - it's all great, but here's your own homemade flour- this is generally super cool! Therefore, when I got my own home mill, my joy knew no bounds. I have a German electric mill Hawos Queen 1, made of beech, with stone millstones and a powerful motor inside. It can grind up to 250 grams per minute. grains. She is beautiful and solid, made accurately and accurately. This mill has pleased me for a year now, and I am sure that it will still be able to go to my grandchildren as a family heirloom.

Bread is a tradition

I have been baking sourdough bread for four years now, and this occupation fascinates me more and more. Healthy and tasty homemade bread is not just a hobby, it is also a tradition, continuity: only when I began to bake bread myself, I remembered that my grandmother had worked with grain all her life, and in my childhood I had been in huge light barns full of grain more than once ... Moreover, I literally swam in this grain, like in the sea. And I resinified my first flour and breathed in its warm aroma, I was suddenly transported into the most magical and blessed time and felt the forgotten aroma of these dusty barns, elevators and a huge collective farm mill. In general, the scent of freshly milled wheat is the scent of my childhood happiness.

Expanding culinary boundaries

Not so long ago, one could only dream of whole grain flour: it was practically not on sale, and the one that appeared from time to time cost like an airplane wing. Seeds and bran were used as useful additives in bread, but I still wanted real whole grain flour. Firstly, I was curious how the whole grain bread tasted, secondly, I wanted it to be really healthy, and thirdly, I was eager to bake bread according to the recipes of famous bakers. But how can you breed real wheat sourdough without whole grain flour? How to bake the world famous chic Vermont Sourdough from Jeffrey Hamelman without such flour? And with homemade whole grain flour, it's possible at its best.

How the mill works

In a month, I spend about 2-2.5 kg of whole grain wheat flour and about 1 kg of rye. It only takes a few minutes to grind wheat wheat. Usually I weigh a kilogram of grain, sort it out, remove the remnants of ears, spoiled grains, pour the grain into the mill hopper (it can hold up to 1300 grams of grain) and turn it on. After 5 minutes, fresh flour is ready. For three days I store it in a large salad bowl, without restricting air access, so that the necessary oxidative processes begin to occur, and then I pour it into a bag.

Homemade versus store-bought flour

The taste of bread made from homemade whole grain flour and bread made from wallpaper flour sold in stores are, as they say in Odessa, two big differences. It's all about freshness: fresh whole wheat flour is delicious and aromatic - the same is true for bread. But such flour is stored for no more than six months, because the oil, which is rich in wheat germ, quickly goes rancid, from which the bread from it smells like straw and can even taste bitter. Many bakers who use commercial flour complain that they do not like the aroma of the bread, and to get rid of the taste of the straw, they have to stand the bread in the cold for 24 hours. Before purchasing the mill, my whole grain bread was also sometimes not tasty, and I even wondered how anyone could like it, but when I started grinding the flour myself, I was finally able to bake delicious whole grain bread and appreciate its benefits.

What and how you can and cannot grind

As I said, the mill has been with me for over a year. At first she stood on the kitchen table, then moved to the balcony - closer to the home granary. During this time, she did not break anything, did not bite or rub off, and I just wipe it from time to time from flour. It works with any grain: quickly grinds buckwheat, rice, corn, oats and chickpeas, and then I bake bread with additives or even gluten-free. If I need to get meal (grains), I grind the grain on division No. 7, if fine flour - on "one". In total, the mill has nine such divisions and, accordingly, grinding options. By the way, flour milled on a "unit" turns out to be thinner and "finer" than the store-bought whole grain.

But it is not worth pouring everything into the bunker: the mill does not grind herbs, oat flakes, oilseeds and nuts - this can clog its millstones, and the mill will fail.

Joy for children

Now, having learned and felt the difference between store-bought and home-made whole grain flour, I can no longer imagine my life without my own mill. The fact that you can quickly grind fresh flour at any time has become familiar and convenient. Children who help me in every possible way and participate in the process are especially happy: they lift the lid of the bunker to check whether there is a lot of grain left and whether to add more grain, control the bowl of flour so that the contents do not overflow, taste the freshly ground product, evaluate its quality and quantity, knead with hands, used for cosmetic purposes for the skin of the face and abdomen! For them, this is a whole event, joy and, I hope, the basis for future happy memories of the most fertile and magical time.

Flour mills - what a miracle - wonderful ?!

Surprisingly, we have heard about mills that grind grain and crops from fairy tales, films, cartoons. The average city dweller did not need to come across this device more often, which makes whole grain, bran or flour top grade, since it is not difficult to buy the flour itself, it is sold in any store, and in the age of computer technology, we can buy it even on the Internet and an online store.

Thanks to the media about the quality of products produced in Russia, Ukraine,

Kazakhstan and other CIS countries, we are more and more exposed to the idea that our delicious, healthy foods not so useful and of high quality, and this includes flour, cereals, cereals.

And now there was an opportunity to purchase a home grain mill. There are many offers on the market now. They offer German brand name millers for all types of grain crops, be it corn, oats, barley, millet. Rice, buckwheat, peas and other grain flour grinders can be easily crushed into cereals or flour of varying degrees of fineness.

Household mills will easily crush flakes in addition to whole grain flour. But, as a rule, all German mills are expensive, made of noble sorts of wood.

Recently, a truly unique universal Italian hand mill for flour appeared on the Russian market, which will grind any grain, including dry corn. Thanks to a special attachment on the body, a mechanical grain mill Marcato Marga Mulino turns into an electric Marcato Marga Mulino Pasta Drive. Moreover, it can be operated as a manual grain crusher and has several levels of work (you can push small and large oat flakes) Grain crushers, and as they are still called now, flockers, are excellent for grinding malt. This mini mill at home is used in brewing, but large roller, ball, millstone mills can be used in industrial brewing. The homemade Marga mill is sometimes used to crush spices and herbs. It is 3-roll. Its rollers move at different speeds based on this principle of its work. The rolls are made of anodized aluminum, and this metal is used in aircraft construction due to the fact that it is light and strong and therefore we can freely call it a mini mill for corn and peas.

There are a large number of hand grain mills. Most of these mini mills are millstones, differ in weight, productivity, material of millstones, body material (wood, aluminum, stainless steel). All these flour mills are kitchen flour mills, they are small in size, take up a little work surface and, as a rule, they are all desktop. There are also floor-standing options, they are heavy, bulky and usually of great performance.

Household flour mills, grind grain into wallpaper flour, with a high content of grain shell, which is good for the intestines, and the flour itself contains a large amount of vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Grain flour mills are indispensable kitchen appliances for every family and for every home.

German home-made mills for grinding grain into flour with stone millstones. A separate group of mills are equipped with a rotary knife grinding principle. The grinding is quite fine, the performance of such millers is high. They tend to grind foods other than grains, such as spices, sugar into icing sugar, coffee (green, roasted). Performance depends on the moisture content of the product and its free-flowing properties. From millers of increased productivity of the rotary type there are devices brand Novital. Many people praise and say that this pepper mill for peas, it grinds it not into powder, but a little larger, is ideal in the production of sausages. You can buy a household grain mill in our online store, we will deliver it across Moscow, Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and other countries of the customs union.