My Dh brought home a new grain mill for me today! \ud83d\ude42 Finally, a replacement for the whisper mill that we lost when we sent it in for service nearly a year ago [we still need to file with the Utah gov. about it, just haven’t gotten up enough humph to do it yet.]<\/p>\n
My new mill is a Nutrimill, and I love it. I have looked it over online several time and determined that it was the electric model I would want [a Country Living Grain Mill the non-electric is one that I still want] but had to wait until we could $ get it. So today was the day. It’s bigger than the WM, but in reality it isn’t as big since the old WM footprint was false, the “collection container” was bigger than the mill and had to be connected via a tube in the lid of the container … so to mill it was more than two times the footprint of the mill itself.<\/p>\n
The thing I like the most about the Nutrimill is that the container for the milled grain is right below the milling chamber, and flow of the flour is through a square hole right from the milling spot to the collection spot. Much nicer than the WM.<\/p>\n
Also you can add grain, then turn the mill on. WM isn’t supposed to do that.<\/p>\n
Also you can turn the mill off then on again with grain in it. WM isn’t supposed to do that.<\/p>\n
BTW, WM is not in production anymore, well it is, just under a new name. In any case of anything about them I do not recommend that product under old or new name. It’s fine if it works, but WM owners now have little help from the new company with their warranties not being fulfilled any more, there is a new law as to how you will be dealt with.<\/p>\n
Some of us out here lost our M’s when we sent them to the warranty address properly and never heard back, we called and got no answer, no clues where our machine was … blah, blah, blah. Authorities in UT say we had a theft therefore and can file papers to aid in …??? We have heard of at least one other family that sent theirs in and lost it just like we have and they haven’t filed either. I do wonder how many of us there are. Now that I do have a new mill I’ll try to recoup something from the one we lost. Energy restored, in other words. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
The Nutrimill can do 20 cups of flour. I like using Spelt and Kamut, which are softer than Modern Hybrid Wheat [which is very hard] and so they produce more volume than harder grains. To mill 10-12 cups of flour is nicer to do with the Nutrimill since it has a larger capacity than the WM has. Clog ups less likely if you mill less grain of softer variety in smaller amounts, but there is no sacrifice to using the Nutrimill, it has greater use to me as a Spelt grinder than the WM ever could.<\/p>\n
I have only used the Nutrimill one time, the initial milling that you throw out (it’s to clean out the mill.) The “sound” of the mill is less loud compared with the WM when actually “milling” and when you turn off the mill after the grain is all done it gets louder, as the WM does, but it’s not worse than the WM. That’s my personal hearing opinion. [Everyone’s ears are their own, different in how they perceive sounds.] The “high pitch” of the WM isn’t how I hear the Nutrimill, it’s more so mellow in a bit of a lower pitch.<\/p>\n
In any case, it’s good to cover ones ears when using an electril mill of any sort, especially as it gets near the end of the grain and when it’s blowing out empty and then turned off. The end progressively gets higher in loudness and pitch in every mill and the sounds can damage the ears [over time moreso].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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