I just bought a Lee Household Flour Mill off of eBay for ~$150. It's
great... loud, but great. It can do really fine or VERY coarse...
practically cracked grain. I used its coarsest setting once to make
corn meal. It was more corn pebbles than corn meal. I ran it through
again at a finer setting and it still ended up making gritty cornbread.
The benefit of grinding your own flour is that you KNOW the fats in the
grain aren't rancid. Most whole wheat flour you buy in the store will
have been sitting long enough that the fats have oxidized.
As for a bread machine, I also just bought a Panasonic model YD250 on
eBay for ~$65.00 Talk about easy! It's really quiet and makes bread
making fun. Easy to clean, too.
Good luck.
Max.
Does that model also bake the bread? I imagine it taste so much better
than bought bread, yes?
I'll look at Ebay!
> As for a bread machine, I also just bought a Panasonic model YD250 on
> eBay for ~$65.00 Talk about easy! It's really quiet and makes bread
> making fun. Easy to clean, too.
>
> Good luck.
> Max.
Max C. - 13 Aug 2005 18:06 GMT
> Does that model also bake the bread? I imagine it taste so much better
> than bought bread, yes?
> I'll look at Ebay!
Yup. It does it all. You just toss all the ingredients in the pan and
then put the yeast in a little door on top of the machine. When it's
time for the yeast, the bread machine drops it in the mix automatically.
I've really enjoyed it. It comes with a recipe book. I've tried
several from the book, but so far my favorite is the whole wheat yogurt
bread. It's kind of a sour dough but without the wait. :)
Good luck.