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Dropped $75 on a hand crank grain mill at a flea market in Des Moines and it jams on anything but soft wheat
I figured a hand mill would be the perfect way to grind my own flour without power, and the seller swore it worked fine. Took it home, ran some hard red wheat through it, and the burrs locked up in about 10 seconds. Two hours of fiddling and a stripped wing nut later, I found out replacement burrs cost almost as much as the mill itself. Does anyone have a mill that actually handles hard grains, or do I just need to stick to soft wheat and call it a day?
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sullivan.elliot4d ago
Look, this is on you for trusting a flea market seller, not on the mill. Seventy five bucks for a hand crank is dirt cheap, and "works fine" from a guy at a swap meet means "it turned when I spun it." Hard red wheat is tough stuff, so of course cheap old burrs are gonna bind up. Soft wheat is what these little mills were built for back in the day, and folks made plenty of bread with it. Clean the burrs, stop cranking it so hard, and feed the grain slower instead of dumping a handful in at once. You probably didn't get ripped off, you just asked a cheap tool to do a job it was never made to do.
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