Mockmill 100 Stone Grain Mill
For milling flour for one or two loaves
Mockmill 100 Stone Grain MillA home stone mill with corundum-ceramic stones that mills about 100 g of wheat a minute.
About 100 g of flour a minute
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Home grain mills for bread
A home grain mill turns wheat, rye or spelt berries into fresh whole grain flour minutes before you mix. Bakers do it for flavour and freshness. Fresh flour absorbs more water and ferments faster than bagged white flour, so plan on more water and shorter fermentation.
Stone mills (Mockmill, KoMo) are the usual choice for bread: fine flour, warm from the stones (the finer the grind, the warmer, says Mockmill's maker). Impact mills are cheaper and louder. In the dough: more water, a rest, faster fermentation; sift out some bran for lighter loaves.
Stone or impact
Stone mills grind between two stones; you can set them from coarse cracked grain to fine flour, and they suit bread well. Mockmill and KoMo are the best-known home stone mills. Impact (micronizer) mills burst the grain at high speed; they are cheaper but loud and less adjustable. Grain berries keep for years, which is part of the appeal.
What fresh flour changes
Whole grain flour holds more water. Our starting point is 5 to 10 percentage points above the recipe's hydration (70% becomes 75 to 80%) and adjust. Bran cuts gluten strands, so loaves are denser unless you sift some out. Fresh flour ferments faster; watch the dough, not the clock, and see baking with fresh-milled flour.
Is it worth it?
If you bake whole grain bread every week and love its flavour, yes. If you bake mostly white loaves, buy good flour instead. Plan storage for the berries and counter space for the mill: measure it with the oven fit checker, which also checks countertop space.
Questions bakers ask
Does fresh milled flour need more water?
Usually yes: whole grain flour absorbs more. We start 5 to 10 percentage points higher and adjust.
Equipment for this job
Keep what you own when it does the job. These are the other exact models we profile.
Mockmill 100 Stone Grain Mill
Mockmill 200 Stone Grain Mill
For milling flour for several loaves a week
Mockmill 200 Stone Grain MillThe faster Mockmill: a 600 W motor mills about 200 g of wheat a minute through the same stones.
About 200 g of flour a minute
NutriMill Harvest Stone Grain Mill
For fresh whole grain flour from a mill that can stay on the counter
NutriMill Harvest Stone Grain MillA countertop stone mill in a bamboo body with corundum stones and a 450 W motor, set by one knob from cracked grain to fine flour.
450 W stone mill, coarse to fine