LEQUIP NutriMill Classic High-Speed Grain/Flour Mill with Mini Seed/Coffee Mill,White,20 Cup

It all started with sourdough starter and it's been all downhill from there. I started baking bread while home on medical leave after a brain hemorrhage. I couldn't focus on a book, walk and chew gum at the same time, or watch TV but I could follow a recipe so I made bread. Lots of bread. Lots and lots of bread every single day for like a month. There are only two of us in the house.That helped me to become a halfway decent bread baker, particularly once I was able to think again. So then I decided it would be cool to grind my own grain. I was trying to reform the last part of my diet (and my husband was following) to eat really cleanly. I have been beating off Paleo fans with a stick every time they evangelize to me about the evils of grain, particularly wheat, but I did like the idea of non GMO wheat flour. Unfortunately that's super expensive and while I'm willing to make the sacrifice (because it isn't like buying a grain mill was cheap) it made me want to look into grinding my own grain.I started with my circa 1964 Vitamix. That little sucker is already older than me and will probably outlive me! My first forays into freshly ground wheat flour were scary, although the squirrels erected a statue to me in the backyard. I think it says "Queen of Wheat Cannonballs!" or something like that. I don't read squirrel. Finally I figured out what I was doing wrong and I was hooked. Good, light, whole wheat bread that made the Virgin Mary cry.Unfortunately the Vitamix just doesn't do it the way I wanted to so I started researching. I sold my iPhone 4s to some place that gave me 3% more if I took an Amazon card, and my plot was hatched. I would get the grain mill with the Amazon gift card and my husband would quit saying, "Buy your flour at the store like normal people." (It's so cute when he tries to tell me what to do...like I listen. You'd think after 28 years of marriage he'd just give up. Gotta love the pluck of that man!)Got my new mill last week. Read the directions from front to back and back to front. I picked up some cheap wheat berries at some giant grocery store that I hate, but didn't want to waste my pricey non-gmo awesome-berries. Ran two cups through to clean it out and make sure it worked and I was hooked!Made my first bread last week and it was awesome. I didn't have to sieve it to get the big bits out because there were no big bits. Made some baked goods today (scones and mini pies) using soft white spring wheat. Delicious! Fed my sourdough with fresh milled grain and I swear I heard it singing my praises in the night.Had absolutely no problems at all with flour all over the kitchen beyond my normal mess. It's not hard to get the wheat hopper lid off. If you read the directions, there is no reason why there should be any issues. If there are, and you know you did it right, contact the company.Do not regret my purchase at all. The squirrels do as they no longer get my little wheat bullets of death from failed whole wheat rolls. I will have to go back to using real bricks to build that fire pit as no more brick-loaves, and I guess I'll have to fix the leg on the wobbly table since I won't have any more hard-tack cookies to stick under the short leg.

Now that I have used it for a few months, made several batches of wheat and rice flour. I kinda like it but only for certain uses. I have nothing to compare this against other than my (ridiculously high priced) blender which btw does a very fine job but I don't want to use it since it will ruin the jar over time.Pros:** Size, shape and weight are pretty good and not unwieldily. If you use it regularly, it is pretty enough to leave it on the counter top** It is FAST and does not overheat the flour. Paranoid me would still give it a break between batches** The overall mechanism is simple -- I will contradict myself in the cons section below -- but the thought and design of the grinding part is simple.** It is not messy at all if you remember to push the bottom container all the way properly; I see a few reviews complaining about this. If you do not push all the way then you will pay cleaning up. I think of it as user error.** Price: I LOVE it. I am not sure you can get a better mill in this price range.Cons:** While the design is good, there are many implementation flaws. The plastic lid on the bottom container is INCREDIBLY difficult to attach/detach. Can't get a good grip and very hard to turn -- it questioned my 6'2" 220lb masculinity. Come on man.... I understand it needs to be air tight and align properly but this is ridiculous implementation. Did I get a bad one? I doubt it. Note that without using this lid properly, you cannot use the machine.** Another flaw -- why can't the controls be simpler. My issue is with the feed rate knob. If I understand it right, the feed rate should be low to get the finest flour. Since this also acts as the power on/off button (makes sense) there is not a good way to get the slowest feed rate without turning it off. When you turn it on normally you go beyond the slowest speed possible. There should be a small stop/step mechanism between the start/stop function and the feed rate function. If you have a knob that does two different things, then you should do this properly or separate the functions.** You can NEVER get the fine flour that you can get in the supermarket or even my blender. Understandable perhaps but buyer beware. It is fine enough for my use for breads but I have ruled it out for many other uses that required finely ground flour.Now for the product bundling .. it adds a Seed/Coffee mill for almost no additional cost. This is a joke. The one that came with my order did not even look like the one pictured AND it was not even assembled. I see all the parts and wires loosely together but not fit for use. I picked it up and entire thing fell apart. I sent Nutrimill an email and they immediately shipped me a new mini mill. GOOD customer support. This new one looked like the one in the picture and it was intact. I was happy .. briefly. After two uses of grinding sesame seeds the blade got very difficult to turn .. basically stuck. After I did a few manual rotations, the motor can now turn but at a very low speed. Useless. I can use my own mortar and pestle faster than this little mill. This mini-mill was designed to RUIN the brand name of Nutrimill.Bottom line: Buy it being aware of its limitations. The mini-mill is crap

There were 2 of these grain mills by NutriMill offered on Amazon. One with the Mini Seed Mill and the other with out the Mini Seed Mill for the same price. I ordered the one with the Mini Seed Mill. The NutriMill arrived tripled boxed. One big outer box, then another box that contained a small box with the Mini Seed Mill and the box with the NutriMill in it. I have used the Mini Seed Mill once and it work well. I really like the Nutrimill Grain Mill and it works really well. I usually grind Hard red/ hard white wheat berries. A few times I have ground chicken feed which had cracked corn in it without any problems. You can not or should not grind any oily seeds such as flax seed. There are 2 thinks one needs to do or keep in mind when using the Nutrimill Grain Mill. 1st the receiving tub needs to be pushed in all the way and you should here it click. If it isn't in all the way a lot of ground flour will be blown out. 2nd the rubber gasket for the receiving tub and the tub lid needs to be lubricated with ground flour. If not the lid is hard to push on. If the tub and lid are washed out with water then the rubber gasket will need to be re-lubricated with ground flour again.