WONDERMILL Junior Deluxe Grain Mill for Flour, Hand Crank Wheat Mill for Grains, Nuts, Seeds, Oily Foods & Spices, Grain Grinder with Stone and Stainless Steel Burrs (Red)

Absolutely the best grain mill for the money. It's got superb craftsmanship, is super easy to assemble, and comes with both ceramic and steel plates. The mount has dual clamps and there are extra holes so you can mount this in several ways. The hopper isn't very big, so if you're going to do large batches of flour, you might consider enhancing the hopper, e.g. my giant funnel fashioned from a pair of 2L plastic soda bottles. I love that you can not only grind anything from very-coarse to very-fine (e.g. 00 flour). I haven't yet tried the steel plates yet with softer grains, but I expect to enjoy making my own nut butters soon. :D NOTE: This certainly will give you a shoulder+arm workout when using it; or you can do like I'm doing and attach a motor. (My motor dual-serves this mill and also my grain crusher for home-brewing.) Motorized, this will grind 4x the flour per minute and save you from RSI issues as well. ;) TIP: If you refrigerate your grains a little before grinding them into flour, the heat generated from grinding only gets to a little over room temp. I poured my grain into a glass bowl, placed it in my fridge for 15 minutes, and my flour came out at 90°F, way below 115°F which is where nutrient degradation begins. Just beware to not chill the grain too much or it'll produce condensation which can gum-up your grinder.

Seems sturdy, I only used the metal burrs so far but they grind fine enough for my everyday glutenfree sourdough bread. It is a bit loud, and it's heavy to use on rice, but that was expected with a manual grinder. Seller ships with UPS which is a complete failure in Sweden, as they did not even try to deliver the package and lied to me about wether it would be sent to an access point. Causing a lot of hassle and stress, but eventually I got it. The mill itself is good, sits firmly on the table and does it's job well. I'm very happy with it.

My search for a great manual grinder came to a close when I unboxed the Wondermill Jr. In my opinion, this is definitely one of the best grinders on the market. Something like the Country Living mill would no doubt be of higher quality and perform a bit better, but it also runs at over double the price. There are a number of cheaper alternatives on the market, but nearly all of them use plastic parts or don't seem very well made. The Wondermill Jr. is built extremely well, and I was highly impressed with the overall quality of the unit. The entire thing is metal, and is solid in construction with a durable finish. The dual clamp securely fastened the grinder to one of my kitchen countertops and the unit remained rock solid while I worked. The different burrs attach easily and can be interchanged within seconds. The unit includes a set of stone burrs intended for grinding grains, and a set of steel burrs that will grind everything the stone burrs do as well as nuts, sprouts, beans, ect, though at a 10-20% coarser grind. Adjusting the stones is easy, and allows you to grind at a variety of consistencies. The stone burrs look to last quite a long time, though I do plan on buying a spare set. One of the reviews and a couple of comments talked of some excessively long mill times for something like a single cup of flour. After using the mill myself last night, I have to assume that the reviewer was either exaggerating, or using the product incorrectly. Grinding a cup of hard red wheat into fine flour took me under 5 minutes on my first attempt, and that included time spent learning how to adjust the tension for a coarser or finer grind. I got some flecks of stone in the first cup or so through (which the manual clearly warns you of in advance), and nothing after that. All in all, this mill is very well made by a respectable company, performs quite well, and is a great deal for the price. I'm very pleased with the purchase, and will be using it for a long time to come.

For background, prior to purchasing this I had been cracking my wheat in a malt crusher, then grinding the cracked wheat to flour in my electric coffee grinder. It takes two passes through the coffee grinder, with sifting in between passes, to make flour that is not gritty in texture. I contemplated trying to grind the grain all the way to flour in the malt crusher but it is really not designed for that. Closing the plates enough to grind to flour resulted in a lot of metal filings. It was advertised as a grain cracker, and that is all that it is designed to do. By the way, there are several of that type for sale on Amazon, under different names. The key to recognition is a cast iron body, wooden crank handle, wing nuts holding on the crushing plates, and sometimes a sheet metal extension to the feed. If you read the reviews for these, you will find that they really only crack the grain, regardless of their claims. I am happy with that for cooking as porridge, but not for baking bread. This grain mill really is a flour mill. Before buying it I read the reviews and examined some other models. The more expensive one, mentioned in a couple of reviews here, requires bolting to the tabletop. I didn't want to do that, so this was my next best choice. I did want a hand-operated mill. I want to be able to grind grain even if there is no electricity. It turns out to be harder work than I thought, but neither impossible nor extremely time-consuming. From whole hard red wheat, I ground four cups of flour in about half-an-hour, one pass through the crusher and two passes through the flour mill with the stone burrs. The flour did not look much different from what I got from a single pass through the coffee grinder, but it made much better bread. There was no grittiness at all in the bread. Using the coffee grinder to get flour this fine and consistent would have required eight grindings of one-half cup each, plus putting it all through the sifter and regrinding the pieces that did not go through. I estimate that the time would certainly have been no less. Using the sifter makes my hand ache, and the coffee grinder would have been overheating after that much grinding. With this mill I got exercise for both arms in turn and no pain anywhere. I sweated a little instead of the coffee grinder overheating, which is good for me and bad for it. I broke in the stone burrs with a pound of badly outdated barley. Before I started, the faces of plates did not line up smoothly at the edges. After two passes through the mill, the barley was ground very fine and the stone burrs were riding smoothly on each other. The next morning, I tried to grind our morning oats. I only cook one-half cup of oats for breakfast. One-half cup seems to be too small a batch for this grain mill. I also learned a lesson in cross-contamination, as we had barley in our oats. However, that is not the fault of the grain mill. Our very small batches of breakfast oats can perfectly well be ground in my coffee grinder. I did not see any signs that the steel burrs needed breaking in. The outer edge of the faces of the plates was perfectly smooth, and when these were clamped together the interior parts didn't rub together in any way as to cause metal filings. I tried the steel plates with the wheat. I have to agree with the reviewer who said that the steel plates are very rough to use. There was a distinct jolt every time a large piece of grain was crushed. I did not get that with the stone burrs. Setting the stone burr plates appears to be an art rather than a science. I had hoped for numerical settings so that I could systematize my grinding. However, the single, large, screw-in knob is easy enough to adjust and not wobbly like the pairs of small wing nuts on the crushers. Once set, it stays in place and does not rattle loose like the wing nuts sometimes do. If you err on the side of too coarse, you can always pour your trial amount back into the feed funnel. Since I had no complaints about even my first batch of flour, I won't complain about the lack of settings. The limited lifetime warranty is more limited than lifetime, but in their favor, there seems to be little that can go wrong with the unit. PRO: 1. Nicely built one-piece feed funnel. No cracks between sheet metal parts where grain can stick. 2. Very secure clamp for bolting to table. Option to bolt directly to table without clamp. 3. Good quality flour from stone burrs, two passes. I did this from cracked grain, but there is no reason to believe it would not work from whole. I am just used to cracking it in the malt crusher first. 4. Crank turns smoothly and feels as if it will last. 5. Burr plates clean easily with an old toothbrush. CONS: 1. There doesn't seem to be any way to remove the feed auger for cleaning. The mill is heavy enough that I am not inclined to unclamp it and shake out the grain left inside on a regular basis. According to their website, the newer model of this unit comes with a long handled brush, similar to a paintbrush, for cleaning the plates and the auger. The model sold here doesn't come with that brush. I don't see how that helps anyway, unless you pick up the mill and tilt it so the grain falls out of the feed channel, in which case you don't need the brush. 2. The handle on the crank turns very stiffly. If you don't grip it tightly, it tends to turn in your hand instead of around the crank and could cause blisters after long use. I actually had the best experience with it after I washed my hands once and did not dry them. The handle turned smoothly in my hand rather than around the crank. This isn't right nor necessarily reproducable. 3. Flour spews out sideways from the plates. The faster you crank, the further it spews. According to their website, the newer model of this unit has a shield to deflect the flour downward, but the model sold here doesn't have that. I have been using the non-stick liner from an old electric rice cooker to catch the flour. This catches most of it, but not all, and I have to watch my speed of turning at that.

Fantastic product! We now make our own flower for bread making, we make our own grits, and we grind up for groats.

We love this mill, grinds wheat, soghum fine enough in first pass, just the screws need to be ajusted nicely. It was a perfect workout and milling the flour at the same time.

I am new to growing and grinding my own wheat, but this baby is a winner! Easy to assemble, simple mechanism for adjusting the grind fineness and beautiful to behold. I have other small electric gadgets that could do the task for my 2-person household, but it literally feels good to get the workout and know that I can grind grains and nuts by hand when the grid is down, which is a real thing where we live. The WonderMill comes beautifully and safely packaged, with easy to follow instructions. Getting both the stone milling heads and steel burrs in one box, all-inclusive in the price, is a bonus and better than I could find with any other hand mill. It fits in my kitchen on a small counter next to the stove, takes up very little space and makes me happy when I look at it. It is extremely sturdy and will surely outlive 2 or 3 generations. If anyone is on the fence, I would highly recommend.

The augers arrived bent. I couldn't tell if it mattered (or if it was normal) for the first month because I was grinding by hand. When I got the official drill attachment, however, it was clear that the mill is basically defective. There's so much run-out that the mill would shake violently even at low RPMs. Grinding manually is not optimal either, because the outer burr or stone will move in an unusual "orbit" around the stationary half. This might lead to more variation in grind size. I'm also worried that it might wear the stones, burrs, or bushings out too quickly. I contacted the manufacturer and they told me to use Amazon's return process. Unfortunately it took me a month to start drill-milling, so I'm out of the return window. The alternative is to use the repair service, and of course that'll cost money. All in all, I'm not at all impressed with the quality of this thing or with the support I'm being offered. I love milling, and I have to commend the mill for getting me into the hobby. However, if the quality can be this poor and service this mediocre, I just can't recommend the mill. I would rather have spent double the price to get something that's guaranteed to be high quality. There are other minor issues too. The stationary stone/burr attaches with nuts and washers. Probably due to space limitations, those nuts have to be tightened very close to the body of the mill. It's just not ergonomic. Breaking down the mill to clean it after milling masa, peanut butter, or flour from sorghum is a chore, but it's well worth the effort. The key is to mill a meaningful amount of stuff at a time so that it's worth the hassle. TL;DR: If you can't afford a better mill than this, inspect everything very carefully. The augers should be dead straight. It's hard to gauge this without rotating them in a drill, so buy the (overpriced) drill attachment. Your standard electric drill won't have enough torque, so factor that into the cost of this machine vs. a higher quality mill with a flywheel.