More than a few of us have thought about self-sufficiency during the pandemic due to supply chain challenges and commodity shortages. Flour is one food ingredient that comes to mind in the early days, as it was popular past time to bake during isolation. Due to demand grocery store shelves were often all-purpose flour empty.
But what if you could mill your own as well as grow your own?
This week we tested a tool to do that – a flour milling attachment for a stand-up mixer. Although home-use flour mills are available, this flour mill attachment was relatively inexpensive.
We used buckwheat to test out the KitchenAid flourmill. Buckwheat is a pseudocereal that is commonly available in bulk food stores. Pseudocereals are grains that are used like cereal grains but don’t grow on grasses.
There are several speeds that can be utilized to mill the grain or pseudo-grain into flour from coarse to fine consistency. It worked like a charm. We chose to mill to a fine flour and it came out well ground with an even consistency.
One thing to note with this tool – it is adequate for small quantities only as it may overheat the mixer.
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