Roots and Branches Deluxe Manual Grain Mill Review | Prepper Pantry Manual Grain Mill
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Welcome back my dear fellow millers! If you have been wanting a manual hand grain mill, but not sure which one to buy, I have a review for you! This video is an honest review about the Roots & Branches Deluxe Grain Mill. This isn't sponsored. The grain mill is borrowed from a super sweet and trusting friend!
I walk you through how this compares to an electric grain mill, talk about the optional motor, and then we grind some grains in both the fine and course settings.
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I recommend you grind pushing forward. Grab the mill with your left and then push and pull with your right. Took me 1 minute to do 1 cup.
In a shtf scenario a person would be starve to death getting some flour ground 😂 we ordered ours today and I got the wife a membership at the weight lifting club.
😂😂😂
I'm glad to see a working review of this mill. I was thinking that in a grid-down situation, where you're with limited power, this might be a great inexpensive option. I think it makes a reasonable backup at the very least.
Yes, that's the main reason I want a manual grain mill for when I don't have any power!
I have this for that reason. It also has an option to buy an electric attachment.
@@Just-Nikki I noticed this mill was sold out on amazon last week. I bought mine because the reviews were great and so far mine is working well. With all the uncertainty its good to have a manual mill. Im watching farmers on odyssey , bitchute and rumble. Very scary times. Watch the Dutch farmers. Pay attention to the world economic forum. Blessings everyone.
I just bought this mill at an Amish store for $77.50 😍😍
Thinking about ordering the motor 🤷🏼♀️
I love the connecting the mill to a bicycle crank situation for power. Don't have the room in the kitchen, so you do have to have a big indoor or outdoor area to do that. You could probably hook up some hand crank mills to an antique sewing machine tredle table, too.
That was such a great review! So thorough! I appreciate all the info. Thank you!
Great, thanks for watching!
I bought this before I watched your video. I actually used your recipe and ground the 9 cups of flour. It took me and my 17 year old son about 45 minutes to get it done. I plan on buying the cone to be able to grind popcorn and larger legumes. I thought it did well but I have never used any kind of grain mill because I’m new to milling. So I had nothing to compare it to. It was nice to see this video and have the assurance that it was a good hand crank mill. I am still having a hard time deciding which electric mill to buy though!
My first electric mill was the Wondermill electric grain mill and it is a great mill. I currently am using the Nutrimill Harvest which is a stone grind mill. The biggest difference is with the Nutrimill Harvest I can get cracked grains all the way to fine flour. The Wondermill only does fine flour. Something to keep in mind.
Just got this grain mill and I LOVE it. My mom had a grain mill growing up, a huge red one, can't remember the brand. But it was so hard to turn, so i was worried about this one being the same. It's so easy to crank, even on the fine setting. Granted, I only have ground rice so far, but 3 cups of rice grains took me about 20 minutes whereas it would've taken me like 35+ minutes with my moms mill. Just bought the cone attachment to do both small and big grains!
Wonderful! I was quite surprised and pleased with it for it only being $50 or so. Glad you are liking it!
Im sick the Country Living mill is being gouged, so this video helps. Thank you again ma'am.
Glad this was helpful! I am amazed the County Living mill is so expensive - it always has been. Even when I first starting milling a decade ago it was more pricey than electric mills!
I started out with the WonderMill Jr deluxe hand crank mill and it works great! Not that I have anything to compare it to. HOWEVER….I did notice that soft wheat takes FOREVER to mill and the hard wheat was a huge workout to get enough milled to make bread. I always made sure my husband was around so we could take turns cranking lol
It's a family affair! I have heard great things about that mill, I just know it's more expensive than this one.
I’m laughing so hard right now!! 😂😂because I did that! And another reason I got a hand crank was thinking that I could let my 5 year help me crank….yeah there’s no way he could crank long enough for any amount of grain to be milled. Needless to say I got an electric pretty quick!
lol glad you enjoyed my humor 😛 Thankfully I have more than one kid to rotate through lol It definitely makes you respect all the women of the present and past who still have to grind their own grains by hand!
I have this one and I like it! It gives you quite a workout but it really isn't bad. I bought this one because I could buy a motor or hand crank. You need a separate (grinder blade)? to do corn, coffee beans, and beans. I make wonderful bread with this and I have used it to make your chocolate chip cookies. I am excited to see what you think. I also like because I make gluten free bread also and I can clean this out completely.
Lol, I am sitting here telling you not to try the beans because you don't have the right grinding blade but you didn't hear me.
Ah I never thought about the need to really clean everything if you're switching to gluten-free grains. Good point! And it comes out pretty easy too.
@@melindabanning4497 lol thanks for trying to help!!! I did wonder if there was a different blade for beans.
😆LOL.... I KNOW what it feels like. I have a hand grind mill and then bought an electric one for THAT very reason!
I have the song that never ends stuck in my head now 🙄 so, thanks for that 😂
would be great with a drill adapter.
Looks like a great workout.
It is!
The family grain mill on Pleasant Hill Grains is $169 + 10 shipping. The motor is an add on.
Thanks for the really good review!
I was wondering about this model.
I bought a retsel brand manual mill many years ago. It’s very nice and heavy duty but just takes so much work!
Oye, it's amazing how much work it takes! Makes you so grateful for modern technology.
I just got "the Motor" to attach to this delux grain mill
amazon around 65$- its slow (190watt)but also not 250$ 2cups took around 7 to 10 minutes to grind >> written in March 2023
How well does it work?
@@finallythere100 IT GRINDS THE BERRIES JUST FINE
I got the wonder junor deluxe hand crank. Not for seniors. I ended up in emergency with cracked ribs
Seriously?? Wow, yeah, sounds like an electric might be best for you. I hope you're alright.
I'm thinking of buying it today but with the $50 motor attachment.
Let me know how it turns out!
I’d like a hand mill for travel.
Thanks. This was a great review
I've heard someone say they attached a drill to the mill, instead of the handcrank. That would go faster!
Yes you can do that too! With some hand mills you can buy the small motor to attach it too as well.
@@GrainsandGrit the Roots and Branches model 1012 is the hand crank model. They also have a Deluxe model 1024 that also is manual but you can buy their optional motor for as well. It's just me, but I would prefer using their motor as it's probably calibrated for the correct speed, rather than jury-rigging something with a electric drill. I just found a nice little instructional video on this here: czcams.com/video/kollKkYOzqY/video.html
Grind coarse first then finner works better
Wow! Tyvk for this real lesson!!! I have been looking for my first hand - cranked mail, but an hour is just not reasonable to work just to make flour for one loaf of bread. Surely they can’t all be like this?
Manual mills are much slower than electric. Do know many manual mills do have the option of attaching a motor to them to speed them up.
Grinding grains into fine flour is no joke! It takes a lot of time to do it manually.
I have a KOMO manual mill for the grid down and grinding flour is a workout on it also. Definitely don’t want to have to do it myself.
For real! It just takes forever it's nice to be able to take turns.
@@GrainsandGrit I got my komo mill second hand and at a great price. It was so much less than the new ones
@@Mindy56743 Second hand is always great!!!
Thank you so much
Love the review thanks!
You're welcome! I hope it was helpful.
Can you see if It mills chickpeas to super fine flour pleaseeeee
Thats the one I just bought recently. 😊
Where did you buy it from?
@@franc7469 amazon
they upgraded the motor from 90 to 190 watts. >>march 2023 see below next comment
Just seen this today as I’m searching to start milling grain. Amazon had this model 2 days ago for 139.00 and I put in my cart as I’m still deciding. Today, my cart informed me they are outta stock but available from other sellers for 179.00. The motor is still 3 in stock on Amazon for 69.00 ( I think) and most web sights are out of stock on this model. I’m thinking a cheaper electric one for the price of this with motor now. Dang, should have bought sooner?
Indeed - prices are going higher everywhere. And that's IF you can find it in stock.
@@GrainsandGrit glad to report after searching many web sights I was able to get this one for a much less price. I feel from all I’ve researched and reviews this hand crank model seems to be one of the better ones. Excited to get it now and start my new adventure of making bread from whole grains. A new workout of body and good nutritious bread. Thanks for all you do.
@@followerofchrist4064 Can you share where you got yours? Thanks in advance. :)
@@stephaniehall3505 the company is Mykitchen Center. Idk if it’s a web sight as I had one in my Amazon cart and then it showed there were other companies to order through and this came up. It went from 179.00 to 149.00 so I bought it right away. Most places are out of stock on this grinder so idk, I may have got it by chance?? Try and look it up or put the 179.00 one from Amazon in your cart and see if it offers the other ones? Hope u find one at the lower price. 179.00 seems kinda high to me for a hand grinder but if they are out everywhere I guess they can ask any price? Mine already shipped and I ordered last night.
@@followerofchrist4064 Thank you for responding so quickly! ❤
Wondering if some Teflon on the coarse adjuster would stop it from being loose
Seems like it needs some kind of lock to keep the front cap from loosening
Hey girl. Good video
I heard that steel blade mill heats up the flour to a point many of the nutrients are destroyed. And for the stone mill (electric), the stone is made of corundum ceramic that contains a lot of aluminum oxide. I tried to find a real stone powered grinder and found that the only company who sells granite stone electric mill is Salzburger mill in Austria, but you cannot get it here in the U.S. What are your thoughts about the lost of nutrient from the heat from the blade, and also tiny particles of aluminum oxide from synthetic stone mill?
Both the Nutrimill and Wondermill impact mills state on their website that they do NOT heat up the grains where they lose nutrients. I have both the Wondermill and the Nutrimill Harvest (stone grind) and just by feeling the grains there isn't much difference in temperature.
As far as the aluminum oxide, I have never heard of this but in my brief research the grinding stones are made of corundum which is the natural form of aluminum oxide. So the stones are made from a very natural substance that is mined and then shaped to the mill stones. I hope this helps!
At the moment, I do not have an issue using corundum but, again, my research has been limited to about 10-15 minutes :-)
I've watched a lot of videos trying to decide which mill I want but I'm seeing a lot of people sifting the flour but you don't do that do you? Don't we want the grains in the flour?
I sift for some recipes like biscuits. But not for bread loaves.
There's a different shaft for larger grains like beans.
do you use the Azure gallon jars ? wow how did those women in the 30-40's do it, I wonder if they took it to the Miller like the corn...wow ,I better dig out my non electric mill and try it ,oh boy this will be rough here in Fla.no ac, no electric appliances, no fans, oh its gonna be sweaty work...I guess everyone with alot of kids ,they can all take turns...
It IS hard work to do it all by hand, but it is worth it! Many women in Mexico still make masa harina by hand although most places have a mill in the village they can take it to.
And yes many kids to take turns helps!
I know here in America many towns were built up around the local miller. Many families would take their grains to the mill to be milled by the miller!
I have used the Azure gallon jars and love them!
This is great but how would you personally bake bread if you were to lose electricity? In a pot on a grill? Just wondering if there are options I have thought of….
My first way would be to just make flat breads. Because all you need with that is a good cast iron pan or griddle over a flame.
As far as a loaf of bread, I have been wanting to try it in the grill! I will have to experiment with that :-)
Pioneers used to put it in a dutch oven and stick it in a bunch of coals and heap coals over it as well. Definitely takes some practice with that one!
Solar sun oven.
I've seen bread baked in a thermal cooker as well. You just need a way to boil water
Can use flat lidded cast iron dutch oven over hot coals, with coals on top of lid
Forgive me if you have already made a video about this. I just found your channel. It seems like electric mills grind too fine to make grain for cream of wheat. I was hoping this manual mill would’ve best for cream of wheat. I only need 3/4 cup at a time so it wouldn’t be too bad to mill such a small amount.
If you're wanting to grind grains into other coarseness other than fine flour you will either want a manual mill like this OR there are electric stone grind mills like the Mockmill, the Komo Mill, or the Nutrimill Harvest. With a stone grind mill, you can do fine flour all the way to simply cracked grains and everywhere in between. You just adjust the stones.
I did a review video about the Nutrimill Harvest you can view here: czcams.com/video/yD-FrjsyHlM/video.html
I also did a video all about choosing a grain mill that can be viewed here: czcams.com/video/oM6k-htoP88/video.html
@@GrainsandGrit doesn’t the flour go all over the place? I will look into that
@@tammym110 Incredibly enough, it doesn't. I think the reason why is because the motor is slower speed than an impact mill so it's not shooting flour out of the shoot. It's just grinding it and gravity takes care of the rest :-)
@@GrainsandGrit so it sounds like the NutriMill is the best mill for what I want to do. Plus it looks nice on the counter. Thank you for helping me decide.
I have a smaller manual grinder. 5 cups wheat berries I did in 20 minutes and I'm 67. Love it for fresh cream of wheat in morning or short stack of pancakes. Other err wise I have a vitamix with dry container for grinding
Have you found anything better? I’m looking at getting this one.
I have my eye on the Wondermill Jr Deluxe. It's considerably more expensive BUT it comes with a different grinder to grind wet grains like corn for masa harina, coffee beans, etc.
Unfortunately I have not been able to test it myself, but I've heard great things about it!
But honestly - if you're needing a hand mill to grind your grains. This works just fine.
Are there any other hand grain mills that would mill the wheat faster than this one or are they all the same? thank you.
I have no personally tried any other hand mill, but there are other ones I know people really love like the Wondermill Junior Deluxe.
I do hope to get my hands on another manual grain mill to try them out, but from what I've been told they all take awhile ha
This is how they used to eat mostly bread and not get fat lol
Haha, yep!!
Looks like you should use a piece of tape to keep it in place.
My counter top has a bit of a lip and all of it wasn't gripping the counter, especially at the bottom. I think with a better table or counter it would hold better.
@@GrainsandGrit Thanks for the reply. I wasn't clear. I was talking about the screw on thing that determines how fine the grind is. I'm thinking a piece of strong tape will hold it in place so you have a consistent grind.
@@aCycloneSteve oh ok, yes perhaps!
This is 9 months old. Do you still feel like THIS is THE one?
It’s a good cheaper manual mill, but I have come to love my Wonder Junior Deluxe because it’s more heavy duty materials and it will also do wet grains as well 😄
They have a motor sold at Pleasant Hills but it is 200 RPM and the directions say not to have it go over U think 86 RPM per minute …
Lol that’s a workout 😢
After watching you struggle, I would never buy that piece of junk even though the fine grind looked good.
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