Milling your own grain

Snyper564

Snyper564

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Now that little one is almost 4 months old getting back into my old hobbies.

Whipped up my first sourdough since his arrival been awesome having the smell of freshly baked bread wafting through the house again.

Now I have been doing this for years and freshly milled grains have piqued my interest of late.

Does anyone do that here? If so where do you get your wheat berries etc.

I see I can get the Bosch grain mill attachment for my stand mixer so mill side will likely start there but dont want to get that and we don't have easy access to grains.

Here is the freshly baked loaf
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Whenever I travel from Cape town to Caledon to Bredasdorp, I can see big farms, I have been told they are all wheat farms, but all the grains have already been sold/ contracted to bread manufacturers.
We like to make rotis and need flour for it, we normally buy a 5kg whole wheat flour bag from an Indian spices shop.
I also hate to buying ready made flour because they have preservatives to increase their shelf lives, fresh flour starts to stink after 5-7 days of milling.
 
Snyper564 said:
Now that little one is almost 4 months old getting back into my old hobbies.

Whipped up my first sourdough since his arrival been awesome having the smell of freshly baked bread wafting through the house again.

Now I have been doing this for years and freshly milled grains have piqued my interest of late.

Does anyone do that here? If so where do you get your wheat berries etc.

I see I can get the Bosch grain mill attachment for my stand mixer so mill side will likely start there but dont want to get that and we don't have easy access to grains.

Here is the freshly baked loaf
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Plenty of places online although not the cheapest. If you want to try malted wheat you can order from a homebrew beer shop.

I've made bread with my spent barley after brewing beer once or twice. Its pretty good.
 
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B-1 said:
Plenty of places online although not the cheapest. If you want to try malted wheat you can order from a homebrew beer shop.

I've made bread with my spent barley after brewing beer once or twice. Its pretty good.
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I have loads of malted grains from my brewing escapades. But just wanted good sources to order normal wheat from. Could you share those?
 
We bought a stone mill and have used it a few times. We ran out of time a little while back to really bake bread from scratch so have not done so in a while but was fun when we did during Covid for instance. In our case we have a celiac in the house so we had to figure out how to bake gluten free bread and sometimes the flour mixes you get are pricey. If you mill your own its cheaper. Good gluten free breads though generally require a mix of many different flours and starches. Tapioca, potato starch, rice flour, millet, sorghum, etc with Xanthum gum to give it they stretchy feal you get naturally from gluten. Millet flour in particular adds a nice flavour but for some reason once milled the flour only lasts 3-6 months before going off. Lasts much longer in raw form so few shops stock it. Hence we ground our own of that.
 
joker08 said:
Whenever I travel from Cape town to Caledon to Bredasdorp, I can see big farms, I have been told they are all wheat farms, but all the grains have already been sold/ contracted to bread manufacturers.
We like to make rotis and need flour for it, we normally buy a 5kg whole wheat flour bag from an Indian spices shop.
I also hate to buying ready made flour because they have preservatives to increase their shelf lives, fresh flour starts to stink after 5-7 days of milling.
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If the germ is not removed during the milling process then it will go off very quickly as that part of the wheat kernel contains the fat which goes rancid
 
I stopped reading at the smell of freshly baked bread. I am salivating, and unable to read further. It's an astounding feat of derring-do to be able to even make this comment.

I'm going to make a toasted sandwich now, and try my hand at baking tomorrow. Potbrood sounds like a start, but sourdough has now piqued my interest.
 
Bliksis said:
I stopped reading at the smell of freshly baked bread. I am salivating, and unable to read further. It's an astounding feat of derring-do to be able to even make this comment.

I'm going to make a toasted sandwich now, and try my hand at baking tomorrow. Potbrood sounds like a start, but sourdough has now piqued my interest.
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Sourdough has 100% been chasing the dragon for me for years :) always want to turn out the perfect loaf!
 
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