*Welcome Ginny Clark of Pleasant Hill Grain!

Hello Hello Ginny!! Welcome!!
Oh What A Beeeutifullllllll.....oh please excuse my unlady like drooooling on the screen.....What an awesome looking mill!!

Hi Ginny!  I have prayed for a KoMo Grain Mill for oh...ten years now!  I love the dovetail joints and it's countertop worthy look.  I'm always baking for my kids and I love to use a variety of grains, especially the ancient grains such as Einkorn, and Kamut.  Thanks for creating a  beautiful and useful product for the world!

Id love to try this.
Wife says just what you need another gadjet in the kitchen.

I think it is time to grow more grains!

Back in 1970 or so, we had a Corona hand cranked flour mill.  It would grind a pound of flour in just a few minutes.  It worked quite well and cost about $30 or so.  (Now they are close to $90 on Amazon.)  Anyway, why would someone need / want this KoMo Classic Grain Mill at >$500 when the Corona costs less than 1/5  as much?  Not complaining, mind you, just curious.

Hi. Welcome to our 'family'

Welcome Ginny!

I am interested in this mill also. I usually buy heritage wheat and do buy other grains. My question is about Okra seeds. I bought, and loved, The Whole Okra, and one of the things I did was grind seeds from too woody okra seeds for a flour (I would add okra to beans, squash, potatoes and corn as essentials) which I add to pancakes or sourdough. It’s nice and nutty. BUT the okra seed flour needs heavy heavy sifting. Do you know of others who do this and how would the mill do with the grain mill. Thanks, Mark, gooddogboy.mark@gmail.com

What a beautiful mill. Someone will be thrilled with this gifting.

Welcome Ginny!  This grain mill looks pretty!

This is terrific and so timely!! We purchased our first grain mill from Pleasant Hill some sixteen years ago! I use my grain mill (Nutrimill Classic) about every other week to grind wheat, buckwheat, cornmeal, and other grains from time to time. My husband thinks every meal must have a piece of homemade bread to go with. ;-) My poor old overworked Classic succumbed and we actually had a complete failure just about two weeks ago. I purchased a new one with the side cannister but honestly, it just isn't my old faithful. I have been considering purchasing another one "Just In Case" because we don't ever want to be without a good grain mill. I am looking forward to all you have to share with us! Thanks so much!!

Welcome Ginny.
Looking forward to learning more of what you have to share.

Welcome Ginny.  I hope I'll be able to learn a lot from you, as so far I've only read about grinding grain.  We all need to learn how to do this ourselves, as you can't get fresher than grinding yourself.

Hi.
I thought this mill would be wonderful for our carobs and almonds.
However, I didn't read this part before creating a new thread in the 'bread' section: "one lucky winner in the USA or Canada".
Isn't it possible at all to send it to Europe?

Welcome Ginny

welcome. Looking forward to learning more about the mill and grains. thank you.

Hi,  
This  grain grinder looks a lot sexier than my mixer attachment. Welcome to our discussion!
Glen Brown

Welcome Ginny! I’m looking forward to reading all of the bread posts. Thanks for joining us.

Hi! I have been grinding using a MOCKmill kitchenaid attachment but it is just about not keeping up with my needs! I mill red hard wheat for sourdough and LOVE fresh milled flour.

Thank you for all the warm welcome messages! I'm excited to dive in to answering questions over the next few days. I just finished up my breakfast of homemade toast made with freshly ground flour using the KoMo Classic mill. It was delicious!

Welcome and that is a beautiful grain mill, been on my list for years.

Welcome Ginny,  All the best.

welcome to the forum! We have a komo mill and love it for making sourdough

Welcome Ginny!!

Welcome Ginny.
Lots of fans for you here!

Welcome Ginny!! I would love to win this beauty!! I bought one off ebay but it doesn't grind very well so not having fresh ground flour at the moment, saving up to buy one someday!!

Hi Ginny-
I rarely even jump over here to Permies, since I cannot figure out "forums" (I'm really bad at reddit too) but welcome, and I have been wishing for a new grain mill for a long time! I only bake with einkorn as I have a pretty significant gluten intolerance. Thanks and good luck I hope this is posting in the right place!!

Welcome, Ginny Clark of Pleasant Hill Grain  !!! Hey, I need a grain grinder ..Welcome to permies.

Welcome Ginny, thanks for the chance to win something I’d like to have, but can’t afford. Many blessings!

Welcome Ginny! Perfect timing for me. :)

We make our own bread all summer for the volunteers who help on our farm. David makes most of it using a super-efficient method. Some days I give him a break, and make homestyle loaves the old-fashioned way, with milk and butter, and kneading it for about ten minutes.  I am a bit slower!  We just had a conversation today about how much we would love to have a grain mill.  The one in the picture looks wonderful!!!

Welcome Ginny!

This giveaway reminds me... we had meant to order some grains but have not gotten to it! Thanks for the reminder :)

I run a home-based bakery and mill all my own flour. I switched to mostly using KoMo mills in 2012 and now have thousands of pounds of grain I have put through them. They are compact so I keep 1 for gluten-free grain milling and 1 for the other grains. I do love them and can't remember if I have posted before on these, but here is my experience:
- Speed: This is the first mill I've ever had which actually performed to spec and does 1lb/minute on my XL and XL+
- Fineness: You can get finer flour and a better shearing action of course on larger stones, but the quality I find is very adequate
- Temperature: I mill in the humid Southeast with lots of higher moisture content local grains so this has been one issue to work around. The flour temp itself is easy to keep cool with all but the hardest grains like Kamut. (you can freeze it before milling). For the mill motor itself, I had to add an extra fan to keep it cool enough on the XL+ to mill continuously. (I often have to mill for several hours). The XL is a less beefy setup and even with the fan still has to rest to cool down between 20 minutes runs.
- Corn: I find that larger grains like this are better cracked first to avoid putting lots of torque on the top stones (I use my slower Retsel mill to do this). The great thing is that the gravity fed straight path down to the horizontally slung stones works really well and you can re-mill siftings and whatever you need without it clogging.

More details and pictures on my blog: https://boxturtlebakery.tumblr.com/search/mill

Hi Ginny Welcome!!!
What typers of grains can be ground in the KoMo?  Could I grind other things in it, like corn, beans, and/or coffee?
Thanks!

Lena Diehl wrote:Hi Ginny Welcome!!!
What typers of grains can be ground in the KoMo?  Could I grind other things in it, like corn, beans, and/or coffee?
Thanks!

Excellent question! All dry grains can be ground with the KoMo Classic mill, including soft or hard wheat, oat groats (dehulled oats), rice, triticale, kamut, spelt, buckwheat, barley, rye, millet, teff, quinoa, amaranth, sorghum, soybeans and dent (field) corn. It will also grind lentils, dry beans (pinto, red, garbanzo/chickpeas, kidney & more), and dried, non-oily spices. It isn't suitable for herbs, oilseeds like flax or sesame, popcorn, or fibrous materials.

You can grind dry, roasted coffee beans; however, there will be some flavor transfer to the stones so it's recommended to have a 2nd set of stones and switch them out when grinding other materials so your grains don't taste like your coffee.

Abraham Palma wrote:Hi.
I thought this mill would be wonderful for our carobs and almonds.
However, I didn't read this part before creating a new thread in the 'bread' section: "one lucky winner in the USA or Canada".
Isn't it possible at all to send it to Europe?

Thanks for your interest in our mill! Pleasant Hill Grain is able to ship mills to Europe. For this particular free giveaway, though, we limited the winners to the USA and Canada due to the cost for shipping/taxes/duty fees that would be necessary to ship overseas.

If you're looking for a mill to grind almonds and carobs, you might consider the following mills that have steel burrs. For almonds or other nuts, you would need this type of burr since they are oily:

Wonder Junior Deluxe: https://pleasanthillgrain.com/wonder-junior-deluxe-manual-grain-mill
Country Living Grain Mill: https://pleasanthillgrain.com/country-living-grain-mill-wheat-grinder-combos

Welcome Ginny

Always wonderful to have an addition to the community such as you.

Welcome, Ginny!

I currently grind small amounts of wheat berries in my Vitamix successfully and have emptied and cleaned my burr coffee grinder to grind dent corn that I grew; I haven't tried grinding wheat or other grain berries in that yet. A Komo Classic Grain Mill would be a great addition our local tool library. Our local tool library is a bit too far to be of use to me, perhaps I should start a tool library in my neighborhood!

Welcome! Love to learn about grains and bread.

How does a mill like this one compare to a high power blender such as a Vitamix?

We have considered getting one alongside our blender so we can make uncommon flours.

I know I really want to win that mill but someone is gonna win it. If it's not me that's ok with me because one of you will and I found out a lot of great information in all the threads and the site. Paul, I received the playing cards and that is fast for the post office. Thanks for the replies and everyone who did and Miss Ginny too. Geno