Manual grain grinder at Amazon

I bought the mill from MPS. It is my first grain mill. I have used it 4 time to grind the wheat berries to make bread. All I can say is that it makes the best bread I have ever made. I absolutely love the grain mill. With it being manual I get a slight workout and I can use it if the power fails.

Based on Mr. Hagan's (and others) recommendations we went with the Country Living mill. While expensive, I expect that if I care for it properly I'll hand it down to my sons. I personally would not spend money on a lesser mill unless you intended to use it as a backup to a more robust unit or would use it only occasionally.

That cast iron mill is a cheap knock off (made in China) of the Corona grain mill. It will grind anything, but it won't grind to the consistency of fine flour. Bread made with this grinder is heavy and doesn't rise well as the ground flour isn't fine enough. It does grind corn well for corn muffins. Corn meal isn't like flour. The price is good, but I don't think you will be happy with it if you are a bread baker. On mine ...the worm screw where it went into the handle was a sloppy fit. I had to file a thick washer to a square hole to fit the shaft. Then I screwed the handle back in, and the fit was better. The biggest issue is it only has one screw underneath to tighten it to a table edge. You can never get the screw tight enough and while turning the handle, the grinder wants to move around. That is really frustrating
My advice is save your money and buy a better unit, and one that has more than one attachment screw underneath so the unit will stay solidly locked to the table edge.
Ohio Rusty ><>

About the mill in the OP, there a few of them listed on amazon and one had some good feedback on the mill. Basicly, most people said the same thing ohio rusty said, it is not good for bread flour.

I want to buy a mill, but I am so scared to get skunked by buying a bad one. Can any of you recomend a mill for $100 or less?

I am not sure you can get one for $100 or less new.
I bought mine used off E-bay and with shipping it cost me $50.
Obviously it was used. But it is a good one. Has a motor that looks like the ones on a small table saw and good stone plates. Sorry I don't know what all this stuff is called.
I keep a Corona around just in case. I figure I can make cracked wheat cereal if nothing else with that.
The one I was looking at to start with was very expensive and you had to provide the motor seperate.

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I am looking for a good manual one. I ventually want to go off the grid.

City Bound, I have the Victorio grinder that MPS sells. I've had it for several years and have even set it up at the fair as an activity for kids in the garden/ag department when I had a wheat display. It survived the kids! It takes moderate effort to grind, not hard, but you will get a minor workout if you need more than a few cups of flour for a recipe. I haven't been able to adjust it down far enough to get fine flour in one pass, but by sifting it, I get about 50-50 flour and breakfast cereal, which works well. You can't grind corn in it. I'm looking at getting a Corona for that, so I can crack corn from the feed store. That will give me the benefit of storing whole corn, being able to crack it in the Corona, and then fine grind it in the Victorio. I paid about $65 with the shipping for mine about 3? years ago, so $60 from MPS with free shipping is a great value. I'd recommend it if you are looking for a decent hand grinder for under $100. HTH.

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The Country Living Mill was the one I would have loved to have. More than $100 though.

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In NYC?? Im only mentioning it because that seems like a unique goal

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What, to live off grid in the city? No not here, although it can be done, and has been done.
I am going to move eventually.

Manygoats, can 50-50 be used for making bread, pies and muffins? I need to be able to make flour for those things.

If I were wanting the most inexpensive manual mill that I could find that could make fine flour then I would look at the Family Grain Mill. It's German made and of good quality. It's a moderate use mill meaning it won't hold up as well as a Country Living, Grain Maker, or Diamant, but it will do for most uses. It's not for milling corn though.

Prices vary but you can typically find the manual base and the mill for somewhere in the neighborhood of $140-150. As a bonus it's one of the few mills that can be truly said to be usable both manually or with the optional motor if you later decide you want to go that way. If you ever manage to wear it out then the time will have come to bite the bullet and step up to a heavier duty (and thus more costly) grain mill. For folks who are not dead certain they're going to use it a whole lot it'll go the distance for you.

There are many dealers that carry it. Pleasant Hills Grain has a nice display on their site that will show you all of the options.

Can I get a grinder that will do both coffee and grains? I don't want a special coffee grinder....

Any mill that can handle corn/popcorn should be able to handle roasted coffee beans if it can be set coarse enough. A Corona would do it.

I have the one featured at Patriot Supply -- Victorio. It works quite well and is much easier for me to turn than the cast iron ones. Although the cast iron one I had was not a Corona. I do find I need to send the grain through twice if I want a really fine grind, but that is true of most of the cheaper mills.