Tips to saving grocery money and being healthy: Milling Fresh Flour - Why Bother?

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[Iareamom]

I have a Blendtec blender that grinds wheat but I wonder if it is fine enough for baking? Do you have experience grinding wheat this way? Also, do you recommend red or white wheat for bread, waffles, pancakes etc?

[thewheatguy]

@Iareamom ~ Hi! Thanks for asking and watching! A blender really does not 'grind' wheat - it makes it into small pieces. It does not produce the same true flour texture that a mill does. So it will be more dense. The best transitional wheat to use for whole wheat, I've found to be Prairie Gold Hard White. Works great! Feel free to email, call or stop by the store site MillersGrainHouse(dot)com and I'd be delighted to help if you have more questions!

Best Blessings!

Donna

[Grain991]

Two months after seeing this vid I finally baked my first loaf of bread using a Corona manual grain mill. What a delicious and substantial bread it is too! I have a nutrition question: Since the grain isn't milled very fine this way (which I very much like -- the bread is chewy like an old rustic roll), are hard wheats like red winter really releasing their vitamins during digestion?

[thewheatguy]

FIRST - Congratulations on your first loaf made of fresh-milled flour!

Great Question!

Yes. The minute the hull is breached the oils and nutrients are released. They will get out even in the smallest of cracking - so you are as good nutritionally even if your teeth cracked a whole kernel or you milled it super fine - as long as it's used right away and doesn't oxidize- you have all the same nutrients.

Thanks for asking this!

Best Blessings!

Donna

[imsailing2]

Wow, thank you. No one has ever taught that to me before, it makes so much sense. I am just beginning my little journey. I have purchased a bread maker and decided that I am going to make all my families bread at home. I have been a little scared of the whole grains because I knew nothing about them. Now I am excited to learn more about how to use them and find recipes we like. I do have one question...which I will ask in the next comment because I am running out of room!

[thewheatguy]

Ran out of room below....but hoped I answered it!

Don't be shy of whole grains! They are so much better and not as hard as you might think. If you do begin to mill your own, you'll NEVER go back to store bought...the taste is so much more REAL and FULL. Even nutrition aside, my kids prefer my tortillas, bread, buns, pancakes etc. So it is worth it!

Best Blessings!

Donna

[mychickadee]

A great teaching video...thanks for reminding me why I take the time to grind!

[rotoclip]

can you freez a fresh loaf of bread [fresh milled and baked bread]? will it lose nutientsin the freezer?

[thewheatguy]

This is a great question!

For convenience sake it makes a lot of sense, and fresh milled will still be better even if it's been a week old (vs. who knows how old it is in the store, and it's stripped of nutrients).

To slow the loss of nutrients you could remove as much air as possible from the mixed bags, then place in the freezer immediately after you've mixed the fresh milled flour and ingredients.

Some nutrients will be lost, but in compairison to bagged flour you are much better.

[imsailing2]

I like to do things easy like you do. I like to get out ingredients and utensils once! So I had planned to make up at least a weeks worth of packages for bread, mixing all the dry ingredients together, so that I can just grab it in the morning and throw it in. (Like you do the muffins) So if I were to mill a week's worth of flour at a time and put all my little mixes together, would I loose any of the nutrients because I am not doing it immediately before use?

[thewheatguy]

Greetings -M!

Thank you for watching....there is a LOT more info on home-milling than I could sqeeze into the video.

You sound like someone who could really make a difference in the policies that effect our foods. Best of wishes for you in that endevour!!

Best Blessings!

Donna

[marlhigh]

Donna,

This video has been really interesting. I am going to be looking into this more closely, specially when I start nearing the end of my flour bag.

I am a college student and my vision is heading to work for agricultural policy reform. being a healthy eating society is very very important to me.

Thanks again for awesome inspiration.

-M