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Pioneering Today

EP: 458 - Hand Crank Grain Mills: Worth It or Hype?

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9931 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week’s podcast episode is all about hand-crank grain mills. Are they worth the hype or not? My guest, Bonnie Jones from GrainMaker, is a wealth of knowledge and sharing who hand-crank grain mills are right for. Plus, you’ll definitely want to hear about GrainMaker’s Heirloom Lifetime Guarantee on their 100% made in the USA grain mills! For more information and any links mentioned in today’s podcast, visit https://melissaknorris.com/458

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Check out my post on grain grinding tips: https://melissaknorris.com/podcast/grinding-flour-6-fresh-flour-baking-tips/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, pioneers, welcome to episode number 458. Today we are going to be talking about grain mills.

0:14.0

Now, milling your own flour is a topic that I have talked about in the past, but today we are

0:19.7

putting an emphasis on and focus, excuse me, talking

0:23.7

about manual grain mills.

0:26.4

And I'm really excited to introduce you to today's guest because I find it extremely

0:32.9

refreshing when I can find a company that is truly making a product that is meant to last. I don't know

0:41.8

about you guys, but I feel like so many of the items that we buy are designed to break down

0:51.2

and to only last for a very specific amount of time so that you are forced to

0:55.3

re-buy that item again. I feel like true craftsmanship and making products that are meant

1:00.8

to last a lifetime or more and further and beyond is something that we run into fewer and

1:06.2

fewer and fewer in today's day and age. In fact, it reminds me, so any of you who remember, or you may

1:12.3

have seen like this meme on Facebook or Instagram or social media, and it shows a picture of like

1:17.1

the avocado green or like the mustard yellow refrigerators from like the 1970s and the 1980s.

1:23.6

Like anybody remember those? And it's like you can buy a new refrigerator now, like maybe get 10 years out of the thing? And it's like, you can buy a new refrigerator now, like, maybe get 10 years out of the thing.

1:30.6

But it's like those old refrigerators.

1:33.1

And I think the meme says something along the lines of like, I am eternal.

1:36.7

I will outlast you all.

1:38.5

Like, those babies, they might not have been super efficient on electricity necessarily.

1:43.3

But, man, like a lot of them are still going if you don't mind the color.

1:49.1

So today's podcast, we are going to be talking about manual grain mills, milling your own flour, the amazing benefits of milling your own flour.

1:58.3

Some of the things you need to know when you are milling your own flour and working and baking with fresh ground flour, that is different. But it is a topic

2:07.2

that I'm super excited to talk about because so much of our food these days and the way it's

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