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Buying Grain

Posted in kitchen logistics, milling on January 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Every so often I get an email asking me where and in what quantities I buy my grain.
I buy 50lb bags of both soft white wheat and hard white or red wheat. In general I get these from Eden Organic Foods in Clinton Michigan. I buy them there because I drive by the company headquarters [...]

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Tortillas and Burritos

Posted in baking, bread, gadgets, milling, recipes on February 8, 2007 | 6 Comments »

Using my spiffy new Fidibus 21 grain mill and my new tortilla baker (a Christmas gift), I made burritos. I would link to the tortilla baker, but Amazon doesn’t seem to carry it anymore.
I had been making corn torillas with masa harina, but Shari wanted me to try to make flour tortillas. So here’s the [...]

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KoMo Fidibus 21

Posted in gadgets, milling on February 3, 2007 | 53 Comments »

I received my KoMo Fidibus 21 last Thursday. So far I am very happy with my new mill (see also my reasons for choosing this mill). I’m also happy with the service I received from NaturalEurope.com. I sent an email asking a few questions about the mill before purchase and receive a prompt answer. The [...]

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Grain Mill Ordered

Posted in gadgets, milling on January 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I have deliberated long and hard (see Grain Mill Shopping and Book Review: Flour Power) on choosing a grain mill, but I have finally ordered the KoMo Fidibus 21 from NaturalEurope.com.
My main reasons for this choice are:

I’m a traditionalist. I’m skeptical of newfangled ways of doing things. For this reason I shyed away from choosing [...]

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Book Review: Flour Power

Posted in baking, books, bread, foodosophy, milling on January 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »

In preparation for buying a new grain mill, I order a new book, Flour Power.
As far as I can tell, this book has no competition. There are no other books out there covering this topic. It is loaded with information about how commercial flour is milled, what get’s destroyed, etc. It also tells you about [...]

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Grain Mill Shopping

Posted in baking, bread, gadgets, milling on January 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’m shopping for a new grain mill.
I discovered that there is a widening crack in my attachment for my Bosch Universal. The ebay ad said there was a crack, but I had not been able to find it until now. Perhaps it was exacerbated when I dropped it. At any rate, my flour has become [...]

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