I know this has been discussed before, but maybe someone new out there has some experience.

I am considering buying a grain mill like a Wondermill or a Nutramill. But I am hesitant because I really like using fine flours from the Asian stores. I am worried that these mills will not grind the rice to a fine enough texture. But I have to go out of town to buy Asian flours, and the risk of CC always worries me.

So, does anyone have one of these mills, and how well does it work? I want to know how fine it really gets the rice flour. I don't like grainy rice flour at all. I used to have a KitchenAid Grain mill to go on my KA mixer, but it wasn't fine enough so I sold it on Ebay.

Anyone know about these machines?? Or do you know of another one that is good??

Thanks!

I looked into grain mills, but the grains I like turn out to be more expensive than the flours unless I buy a ton of them.

I stopped using rice flours once I tried buckwheat, millet, sorghum, bean flours, etc. None of these are grainy at all to me. In fact I hadn't noticed how grainy the rice flours were until I tried them again after using the others for a while.

Here's a place to get all sorts of gluten-free flours: http://www.barryfarm.com/flours.htm


I know this isn't exactly what you were looking for, but maybe it will help.

Sorry I didn't see your post before!

I'm trying to make the same decision, myself. I milled my own wheat for years before my dx last fall, but rice is a whole other ballgame. I did mill some rice in my mill (Whispermill - basically the same as the Wondermill) before I gave it away, just to see what the texture was like, but I'm still not sure what to say about it. I haven't gotten any Authentic Foods flour, yet, so I couldn't compare it to that. And I couldn't bake w/it because it would have been thoroughly contaminated by all the wheat flour in the mill. Looked pretty good to me, but it's so hard to say.

I did "talk" with a dealer whose kids have celiac, and was disappointed to hear that she does sometimes sift her home-milled rice flour. That didn't sound good. I don't remember seeing and "hard bits," as she put it, in the flour I milled, but I may have just missed them.

She did say that she thought the Nutrimill would give a marginally finer flour than the Wondermill, in any case. And I also think you can get a coarser grind w/the Nutrimill if you want it, which I know from my years w/ the Whispermill is quite impossible with that one. I did side-by-side comparisons of flour milled at the finest and then at the coarsest setting, and couldn't detect any difference.

So if I can get hooked up with a natural foods buying club again, I will probably get a Nutrimill. Buying grains in bulk works well for me, and in that case the price is a fraction of the cost of store-bough gluten-free flours. I do find that I prefer millet and sorghum to rice flour in many things, so the rice will be less of an issue for me.

Wish I had more definitive answers for you, but hope this helps a little.

Beth

p.s. I had the KA mill, too, but agree that the flour was too coarse, and you couldn't do much at a time w/o burning out the mixer motor. Also, are you able to get brown rice flour at the Asian stores? I'm still getting up to speed with all this.

I have a Nutramill...had it for most of a year....so far I just use it for brown rice flour...I like it...perhaps it does not grind as fine as the flours you buy, but the baked foods are just fine to me....it takes quite a while to grind a 2# bag of rice...over 1/2 hour...but then I try to set it on the fine grind, so that may explain the length of time...I have not had any experience with other mills, but the Nutramill works for me......I got the mill from Pleasanthill grains, Aurora, Ne....the first mill I got was leaving a black soot on the top of the flour bin, so they exchanged it for me...no questions....this one seems to be doing just fine...

Have you talked to Bosch or the dealer about this? I forwarded your comment to a dealer I know, and she does not think it should take anywhere near that long. Your mill should be under warranty, so I would recommend giving the company a call.

MNBeth....I took the first mill back to the dealer...as I don't live too far from Aurora....took a bag of rice along...they ground it there....they was a bit surprised when it took that long...but didn't say that something was wrong with it.....the flour is pretty fine....maybe that's why it takes that long....??

I guess it could be. But the dealer I talked to does do brown rice regularly, and has been working with these mills for years. I know with my mill - which was not a Nutrimill, but similar - it wouldn't have taken anything like that amount of time. I think it would be worth calling the manufacturer - not the dealer - and seeing what they have to say. For what you pay for a mill, you want one that works like it's supposed to.