NutriMill Harvest Electric Stone Grain Mill, 450 Watt - Gold

I've had my nutriminal Harvest and Classic Grain Mill for over a year. I bought both last year during the Black Friday sale, because I didn't know which one would grind flour the best Stone Mill vs Impact Mill. My findings; I need not have worried on that account they both grind fine flour superbly, both are quality built. I had no mechanical issues with either one, both continue to run perfectly. Pros Classic Impact Mill: *If you want a high quality Grain Mill at the lowest price you cannot beat the Classic Impact Mill during a Black Friday sale. * The Classic Grain Mill can mill large batches of grain with more ease then the Harvest. Particularly helpful for people who are making four or more loaves of bread or other big batches of baking at one time. *The plastic exterior is a nice solid plastic, not flimsy. Cons Classic: Impact Mills are notoriously noisy not good for your ears either wear ear protection or step far enough away while milling. Pros Harvest Stone Mill: *It is a beautiful Grain Mill with its wooden exterior and no visible plastic. Between that and it's compact size it can stay out on my counter no lugging it back and forth in-between uses. It's there ready for me to use whenever I need it. The beauty and convenience for me is what puts the Harvest over the Classic. * The Harvest is better equipped to give you a larger cut grain if you choose that option so it's perfect for making cream of wheat or other large cut grain for hot cereal. This was important for our family the ability to make freshly milled hot cereal on cold mornings. Cons Harvest Stone Mill: *Cost *Flour dust Flour dust and mess: The Harvest with a open spout is more likely to produce a fine dust. For me it is not excessive or goes everywhere I do a light wipe around the Harvest after use. For me personally the Classic has been more of a problem even though it's self-contained when you pop open the tightly sealed lid I end up getting flour mess on my counter tops. The Harvest wins this category for me. Cleaning: both are easy to clean, but the Harvest again takes the lead in this category with just simply brushing out the spout and a quick exterior wipe down. If your stone produces a glaze the solution is to simply run a cup of rice through your mill and it cleans the stones nicely. I have found the Classic takes a little bit more work, because it is bigger and has large gaskets with crevices for the flour to get stuck in needing to be brushed out. Either mill is a good quality product that will produce a fine flour. My preference is the Harvest for it's convenience, size, aesthetics and ease of cleaning. One last thing go ahead if you are new to freshly milled grains purchase a cookbook specifically for baking with freshly milled flour there is a learning curve here. It's not your regular AP or even a store-bought bag of whole flour. I hope this review helps you with your purchase. Wishing you good baking ☺

Got this a few months before the pandemic. Having it and a supply of wheat berries on hand turned out to be very handy, and it got a lot of use. I don't usually review appliances shortly after receiving them, since durability is an important factor to me. But I've had this for 30-odd months now, and have used it at least a few times each week. I've had no issues and it is still in regular use. I don't use it as an all purpose augur or grinder so I can't speak to every use case such as grinding beans or oily seeds, I just use mine for grinding various types of fairly similar cereal grains such as wheat, barley, and barley malt, mostly for the purposes of making bread, cereal, and beer. On its finest grind, it can make perfectly usable pastry flour from soft wheat, on its most wide-open grind, it manages to crack malted barley just perfectly for small-batch brewing. In-between gets pretty much any fineness needed for any kind of flour or porridge. I wouldn't use this mill for processing industrial quantities, I doubt if you can get a doppio zero grind now matter how many times you run flour through, and I can believe that running large beans or oily items through could potentially damage it, but I never assumed that those kind of uses were a reasonable expectation for this mill and haven't attempted them. What I have done is run probably about 10 to 20 pounds of grain through on any given week, which has been more than enough to keep my family well-supplied with fresh cereal, artisan bread, all-purpose flour, and delicious ales and lagers. The machine sits out all the time because it looks nice, and because its likely to get used on any given day. It doesn't create much dust and I find it easy to keep clean. The quantities and grains I use have never seemed like they were stressing the machine and I see no likely reason for it to fail anytime soon, so I am going to go ahead and give this my recommendation for people whose usage is likely to be similar to mine. Hope it helps.

When buying this mill and looking at the other reviews I was a bit questionable about the quality and production amount from the grains. But don’t worry as this machine produced way more flour than you would expect. It worked very well and fast, it was super reliable, it wasent loud at all, it fits perfectly into the kitchen and looks very pretty. It was the easiest assembly ever. The grind speed was almost instant I would say it took about 5 seconds to grind what you put in. I love this machine. I have also attached a picture of my sourdough starter after just 2 days using this machine to mill up some organic einkorn berries I found on Amazon. Honestly perfect I would recommend 👍

I Love this flour mill!!! I had a different one that attached to my Kitchen Aid mixer, and it seemed to take a long time to mill my wheat berries and I couldn’t get a fine enough consistency. I broke down and bought this mill, and within 5 minutes I had a bowl full of finely milled flour. So quick, and easy to clean.

I love this machine! Absolutely love it. I wish I'd gotten one sooner. It's so easy to use and looks good enough to leave out all the time. Just toss some wheat in it and roll! Things I've learned: do NOT put wheat in it and then turn it on. Always turn it on, then add the wheat (or whatever you're grinding). It won't start up and makes a huge mess when you remove the bowl to empty it to try again. Yup, I've made that mistake twice. I'll learn after the 3rd time. Also, I noticed if you use a metal bowl, the powder in the air isn't bad. At all. If you use a plastic bowl, it seems very static-y and flour dust/powder goes everywhere. But, if the dust is an issue, just drape a tea towel over it while it's grinding. I'm like a big kid and like to watch it, though. Very fun to watch! It seems a bit noisy, but my last grinder was the Kitchen Aid mixer attachment. It seemed louder than this. Pretty sure they all have a noise level we wish they didn't have. If the flour isn't fine enough, I've run it through twice without any issues. I don't mind it just the way it is, though. I've made bread, pasta, tortillas, banana bread, cookies and pancakes and loved every single one! It IS quite the investment, but so far this is worth every single penny I paid, plus some. I only made the jump because the Kitchen Aid attachment was burning up my mixer. I figured it was better to just get this than to get another mixer. Besides, I need that to knead the dough for me! I'm very pleased with this unit! The one thing I wasn't impressed with is it had on the shipping box what it was. While I understand advertising your product, unfortunately it also advertises to thieves what the package is. I would have preferred a plain box. Wouldn't be a deal breaker for me. Just be aware of this if you live in a high theft area.

I like the mill, it seems easy to use, it grinds wheat berries very well into flour. Just what I needed and wanted. The biggest issue I have is there is NO INSTRUCTION MANUAL with this mill. You would think that for the price of $340.00 plus tax, this company would include instruction manuals. All they offer is Q-codes to scan with your phone, to get help or to find out about this mill. SORRY, not all of the world does the nonsense of Q-codes and the world should request and require a Paper version of the instruction manual. Plus there should be some recipes in this box with the mill too. What company thinks that everyone who is buying this mill is into scanning codes and not having real written instructions and recipes????? All in all, the mill is great, I tried it out this morning and I am impressed with the quality of flour it does grind wheat berries into. Not impressed with a company who requires a customer to REQUEST a manual and recipes.

Wonderful machine much faster than I thought it would be. My only small complaint is that it needs a better fine to coarse read out

I love baking my own bread, and there's nothing better than stone-ground grain for doing that. My family likes to experiment with different flours (spelt, emmer, einkorn, rye, etc) to see how they change the nature of the sourdough starter and the flavor of the resulting loaf. The idea of grinding my own and getting exactly the mix I wanted was very appealing, and also the best way to acquire the natural yeasts and bacilli that grown on organic grains. I've been hankering after grinding my own for awhile, looked at getting a grinding attachment for my KitchenAid but most of those use metal rollers and I really wanted to try an actual stone. This mill uses carborundum stones for grinding, so I let my wallet groan a bit and gave it a try. It really works, although if you're expecting finely ground pastry-style flour you'll probably be disappointed the finest grind I can reliably get is a little coarse. That's not a problem for me--I like it that way. I also like that you can adjust the grind for breakfast cereals (we love cracked wheat) as well. The mill itself is not all that large, but it's certainly a presence on a kitchen counter; it's encased in wood and very attractive. You'll want to read the directions thoroughly before using it: It can't grind oily or very wet grains, seeds, and nuts--they'll quickly clog up the works and become a pain to clean. Also, you do not just dump your grain into the hopper and turn the unit on--it won't turn if you do that. Instead, you turn the machine on and get it grinding, THEN pour your grain into the hopper and watch the grind falling into your container. You'll want to adjust the grind by turning the dial in the hopper, and it sometimes help if you grind very hard grain in two passes, the first to break it into large chunks, the second to pulverize into flour. It's very quick, which is good--there's a large warning sign on the mill telling you to only grind for ten minutes, then let the machine rest 10 minutes to avoid overheating. It's also very VERY messy; on my first attempt the entire kitchen was covered in a fine rye dust within 60 seconds, and I was coughing a bit. You may want to grind outside, and wear a facemask. Fine flour particles floating in the air can be a safety hazard, not only because you breathe them but mostly because they're flammable. If you're really filling the air and there's a pilot light around, they can potentially cause a fire. We improvised a hook over the flour chute from cardboard and a dishtowel, and eventually will fashion a more permanent hook to keep the flour in the bowl. That works really well, and we don't need to mop the whole kitchen after a grind. Cleaning the mill, not surprisingly, is also a dusty affair. It comes with a brush to clean the rollers and such and it's not difficult to do, but it does take some work. I don't want to contaminate different grinds with leftover flour, so I Overall, though, it's a great addition for any home baker and recommended.