Home Milling

Ageing makes white flour bake better. For whole-grain flour milled at home, it mostly doesn’t. The evidence, the numbers, and what to do instead.

Stone, impact and steel burr grain mills work in three completely different ways. What each does to grain, how fine it goes, how hot and loud it runs, and which suits home baking in South Africa.

Short answer: yes, but for a more specific reason than most people think. The health win comes almost entirely from milling the whole grain (bran, germ and endosperm together), not from the flour being minutes old. Whole-grain flour carries the fibre, the B vitamins, the vitamin E and the minerals that white flour has had […]