WONDERMILLHand Grain Mill Red Wonder Junior Deluxe- Manual Grain Mill and Grain Grinder for Dry and Oily Grains - Kitchen Flour Mill, Hand Crank and Spice, Corn, Wheat Stone Mill Grinder

I'm enjoying fresh milled grain, it works great, very sturdy.

The media could not be loaded. I love my wonder mill junior deluxe hand mill! While it is a great bicep workout, I love that I get the freshest ingredients without having to plug something else in and use electricity. It’s something that is well made and, I think, will last forever. I did find the instructions to put it together was NOT very user friendly. Once it was put together though it’s been easy to use every day while making sourdough pancakes, waffles, muffins, pasta and homemade bread!!

After a few months use of the hand crank, your upper body will resemble that of a bodybuilder. All yolks aside, I love this machine. Despite the fact I paid $50usd above cost available from other suppliers, I have no intention of parting with my new grainy friend.My Wondermill Junior Deluxe Herr Engineer Doctor von Superduper arrived from India, well, it arrived nearly a week late despite USPS falsely indicating it was received on-time, and after unboxing I realized there was not a single arguable blemish on any aspect of the machine. It’s gorgeous and bright red. I scrubbed every component of the thing with weak Palmolive/H2O solution, lots of water, citric acid solution, and lots more running water. It literally sparkled and shone.Assembly was easy, despite I am a patient liar, er patent lawyer and engineer, and there is practically a separate instruction manual for each major component. I broke in my Wondermill by grinding three cups of rye berries on the stainless steel burrs. This was somewhat excruciating given the friction but it further cleaned and polished the burr faces fine.I brushed the machine flourless enough and ground another three cups rye using the stone burrs at the tightest setting I could manage (I’m a large former rugby player with giant hands). They call hard red wheat “hard” for a reason but the sub-00 granularity "vapor" result is worth the effort in service to my scratch ravioli. I guesstimate on the tightest setting you may spend up to 1.5 hours to mill 6 cups, which is ridiculous. However, the fine grind is easier to turn as compared with the bumpy cracking of einkorn berries on a coarse setting.I have no intention to motorize my Wondermill. It operates flawlessly now and looks to grind gourmet grains and nuts by my heirs if they’re up to it. Power will only screw up the system just as with politics.I would buy this agrain. Fire your tennis coach because you are going to be so pumped up the serves will break Mach. My Wondermill is a keeper and does not look to fail me. Sweat equity, babies, plan ahead and divide your milling sessions into manageable intervals, and you will be very very pleased at the capabilities this machine delivers. My 120lb trim wife is still getting the hang of milling, I note. But the results exceed our expectations.

For background, prior to purchasing this I had been cracking my wheat in a malt crusher, then grinding the cracked wheat to flour in my electric coffee grinder. It takes two passes through the coffee grinder, with sifting in between passes, to make flour that is not gritty in texture. I contemplated trying to grind the grain all the way to flour in the malt crusher but it is really not designed for that. Closing the plates enough to grind to flour resulted in a lot of metal filings. It was advertised as a grain cracker, and that is all that it is designed to do. By the way, there are several of that type for sale on Amazon, under different names. The key to recognition is a cast iron body, wooden crank handle, wing nuts holding on the crushing plates, and sometimes a sheet metal extension to the feed. If you read the reviews for these, you will find that they really only crack the grain, regardless of their claims. I am happy with that for cooking as porridge, but not for baking bread.This grain mill really is a flour mill. Before buying it I read the reviews and examined some other models. The more expensive one, mentioned in a couple of reviews here, requires bolting to the tabletop. I didn't want to do that, so this was my next best choice. I did want a hand-operated mill. I want to be able to grind grain even if there is no electricity. It turns out to be harder work than I thought, but neither impossible nor extremely time-consuming. From whole hard red wheat, I ground four cups of flour in about half-an-hour, one pass through the crusher and two passes through the flour mill with the stone burrs. The flour did not look much different from what I got from a single pass through the coffee grinder, but it made much better bread. There was no grittiness at all in the bread. Using the coffee grinder to get flour this fine and consistent would have required eight grindings of one-half cup each, plus putting it all through the sifter and regrinding the pieces that did not go through. I estimate that the time would certainly have been no less. Using the sifter makes my hand ache, and the coffee grinder would have been overheating after that much grinding. With this mill I got exercise for both arms in turn and no pain anywhere. I sweated a little instead of the coffee grinder overheating, which is good for me and bad for it.I broke in the stone burrs with a pound of badly outdated barley. Before I started, the faces of plates did not line up smoothly at the edges. After two passes through the mill, the barley was ground very fine and the stone burrs were riding smoothly on each other. The next morning, I tried to grind our morning oats. I only cook one-half cup of oats for breakfast. One-half cup seems to be too small a batch for this grain mill. I also learned a lesson in cross-contamination, as we had barley in our oats. However, that is not the fault of the grain mill. Our very small batches of breakfast oats can perfectly well be ground in my coffee grinder.I did not see any signs that the steel burrs needed breaking in. The outer edge of the faces of the plates was perfectly smooth, and when these were clamped together the interior parts didn't rub together in any way as to cause metal filings. I tried the steel plates with the wheat. I have to agree with the reviewer who said that the steel plates are very rough to use. There was a distinct jolt every time a large piece of grain was crushed. I did not get that with the stone burrs.Setting the stone burr plates appears to be an art rather than a science. I had hoped for numerical settings so that I could systematize my grinding. However, the single, large, screw-in knob is easy enough to adjust and not wobbly like the pairs of small wing nuts on the crushers. Once set, it stays in place and does not rattle loose like the wing nuts sometimes do. If you err on the side of too coarse, you can always pour your trial amount back into the feed funnel. Since I had no complaints about even my first batch of flour, I won't complain about the lack of settings.The limited lifetime warranty is more limited than lifetime, but in their favor, there seems to be little that can go wrong with the unit.PRO:1. Nicely built one-piece feed funnel. No cracks between sheet metal parts where grain can stick.2. Very secure clamp for bolting to table. Option to bolt directly to table without clamp.3. Good quality flour from stone burrs, two passes. I did this from cracked grain, but there is no reason to believe it would not work from whole. I am just used to cracking it in the malt crusher first.4. Crank turns smoothly and feels as if it will last.5. Burr plates clean easily with an old toothbrush.CONS:1. There doesn't seem to be any way to remove the feed auger for cleaning. The mill is heavy enough that I am not inclined to unclamp it and shake out the grain left inside on a regular basis. According to their website, the newer model of this unit comes with a long handled brush, similar to a paintbrush, for cleaning the plates and the auger. The model sold here doesn't come with that brush. I don't see how that helps anyway, unless you pick up the mill and tilt it so the grain falls out of the feed channel, in which case you don't need the brush.2. The handle on the crank turns very stiffly. If you don't grip it tightly, it tends to turn in your hand instead of around the crank and could cause blisters after long use. I actually had the best experience with it after I washed my hands once and did not dry them. The handle turned smoothly in my hand rather than around the crank. This isn't right nor necessarily reproducable.3. Flour spews out sideways from the plates. The faster you crank, the further it spews. According to their website, the newer model of this unit has a shield to deflect the flour downward, but the model sold here doesn't have that. I have been using the non-stick liner from an old electric rice cooker to catch the flour. This catches most of it, but not all, and I have to watch my speed of turning at that.