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Steel burr grain mills

A steel burr mill grinds between metal plates. This is the least uniform family in the catalogue: two of the three have no motor of their own, and the third is the heaviest machine here.

3 of the nine · one at 1,500 W, two with no motor of their own · How this compares with the other mechanisms

The three steel burr mills, in reading order. Each is its maker's own photograph, trimmed to content and stood on one floor line at a common scale.

The three steel burr mills

Each card carries the figures its maker publishes and the one sentence its own documents support. Nothing here has been milled with.

  1. Country Living

    Country Living Grain Mill

    Milling with the power off, or in a place where there is no outlet to plug a mill into at all.

    Hopper
    4 1/2 cups standard; nearly 11 cups with the optional hopper extension
    Warranty
    Lifetime of the original owner on all parts excluding the finish; grinding plates one year

    The published figures for the Country Living

    View Country Living Grain Mill on Amazon

  2. KitchenAid

    KitchenAid All Metal Grain Mill Attachment

    A kitchen that already has a KitchenAid stand mixer standing on the counter.

    Warranty
    One-year full warranty from date of purchase with hassle-free replacement, for the 50 United States and the District of Columbia; limited one-year warranty in Puerto Rico

    The published figures for the KitchenAid attachment

    View KitchenAid grain mill attachment on Amazon

  3. VEVOR

    VEVOR Electric Grain Mill Grinder MFS-140

    Volume milling on a floor-standing machine, where a shorter warranty and a thinner specification sheet are acceptable.

    Motor
    1500 W
    Warranty
    12-month standard manufacturer's warranty, from VEVOR's site-wide policy rather than the product listing

    The published figures for the VEVOR MFS-140

    View VEVOR MFS-140 at VEVOR

Every published figure for these mills

The catalogue reduced to the steel burr family. Figures are printed in the unit each maker used and are not converted.

Steel burr grain mills and every attribute their makers publish. Numbered notes follow the table. The documents each row was read from are named under the model name10; the photographs are the makers’ own, normalised at build time9.
MillMechanismMotorHopperFlour containerWeightWarrantyMade inDocumented
Steel burr — the grain is ground between steel platesThree mills · one at 1,500 W, two with no motor of their own
Country Living grain mill with a white body, metal flywheel and wooden crank handleCountry Living Grain MillRead from Country Living product pageView Country Living Grain Mill on AmazonOpposed burr plates — one fixed plate held by three screws, one rotating plate on the drive shaft, fed by an auger—34 1/2 cups standard; nearly 11 cups with the optional hopper extensionNot included; optional 8-cup polymer bin sold separately16 lbs in the store's weight field; whether that is net or packaged is not statedLifetime of the original owner on all parts excluding the finish; grinding plates one year5United States8 of 10 attributes8
KitchenAid KGM metal grain mill attachment with a hopper and front adjustment dialKitchenAid All Metal Grain Mill AttachmentRead from Owner manual (PDF) · KitchenAid product pageView KitchenAid grain mill attachment on AmazonMetal burr: a grind worm drives the grinding action and a movable burr grinds whole grains into flour—3—7—7Gross weight 5.4 lbs; net weight published as 0 lbs, an evident placeholder6One-year full warranty from date of purchase with hassle-free replacement, for the 50 United States and the District of Columbia; limited one-year warranty in Puerto RicoChina, per KitchenAid's answer in the product page question-and-answer block rather than a specification field7 of 10 attributes8
Blue VEVOR MFS-140 grain mill on its stand, corn in the stainless hopperVEVOR Electric Grain Mill Grinder MFS-140Read from Owner manual (PDF) · VEVOR product listingView VEVOR MFS-140 at VEVOROne stationary and one moving grinding plate, supplied as a dry-grinding pair and a wet-grinding pair41500 W—7—758.2 lb / 26.4 kg (net or shipping not stated)612-month standard manufacturer's warranty, from VEVOR's site-wide policy rather than the product listingChina5 of 10 attributes8

  1. Steel burr — the grain is ground between steel plates

    Three mills · one at 1,500 W, two with no motor of their own

    1. Country Living grain mill with a white body, metal flywheel and wooden crank handle

      Country Living Grain Mill

      Read from Country Living product page

      View Country Living Grain Mill on Amazon
      Mechanism
      Opposed burr plates — one fixed plate held by three screws, one rotating plate on the drive shaft, fed by an auger
      Motor
      —3
      Hopper
      4 1/2 cups standard; nearly 11 cups with the optional hopper extension
      Flour container
      Not included; optional 8-cup polymer bin sold separately
      Weight
      16 lbs in the store's weight field; whether that is net or packaged is not stated
      Warranty
      Lifetime of the original owner on all parts excluding the finish; grinding plates one year5
      Made in
      United States
      Documented
      8 of 10 attributes
    2. KitchenAid KGM metal grain mill attachment with a hopper and front adjustment dial

      KitchenAid All Metal Grain Mill Attachment

      Read from Owner manual (PDF) · KitchenAid product page

      View KitchenAid grain mill attachment on Amazon
      Mechanism
      Metal burr: a grind worm drives the grinding action and a movable burr grinds whole grains into flour
      Motor
      —3
      Hopper
      —7
      Flour container
      —7
      Weight
      Gross weight 5.4 lbs; net weight published as 0 lbs, an evident placeholder6
      Warranty
      One-year full warranty from date of purchase with hassle-free replacement, for the 50 United States and the District of Columbia; limited one-year warranty in Puerto Rico
      Made in
      China, per KitchenAid's answer in the product page question-and-answer block rather than a specification field
      Documented
      7 of 10 attributes
    3. Blue VEVOR MFS-140 grain mill on its stand, corn in the stainless hopper

      VEVOR Electric Grain Mill Grinder MFS-140

      Read from Owner manual (PDF) · VEVOR product listing

      View VEVOR MFS-140 at VEVOR
      Mechanism
      One stationary and one moving grinding plate, supplied as a dry-grinding pair and a wet-grinding pair4
      Motor
      1500 W
      Hopper
      —7
      Flour container
      —7
      Weight
      58.2 lb / 26.4 kg (net or shipping not stated)6
      Warranty
      12-month standard manufacturer's warranty, from VEVOR's site-wide policy rather than the product listing
      Made in
      China
      Documented
      5 of 10 attributes
  1. Where two of a maker's own documents give different figures, both are printed and neither is reconciled. The ◆ marks the figure the second document gives.
  2. Mockmill 100 and Mockmill 200 print the same hopper capacity and the same housing material. Motor, milling rate and weight are what differ.
  3. Two mills have no motor of their own. The KitchenAid attachment runs off a stand mixer's power hub, mixer sold separately; the Country Living mill is hand-cranked.
  4. Mills are grouped by the mechanism their own documents describe, never by power. VEVOR's manual describes one stationary and one moving grinding plate, so it sits with the steel-burr mills at 1500 W.
  5. Warranty terms stated in years are printed in years. Three makers add a lifetime term for particular parts, and a lifetime has no length to compare.
  6. Weights are printed in the unit each maker publishes and are not converted. VEVOR does not state whether 58.2 lb is net or shipping; KitchenAid publishes a net weight of 0 lbs, an evident placeholder, so its gross weight is printed.
  7. Where a maker publishes nothing for an attribute the cell prints an em dash and the document that was read and did not carry it. An em dash is an absence, not a fault.
  8. Documented counts how many of ten attributes each maker publishes. It rates the paperwork, not the mill, and a fully documented mill is not a better mill.
  9. Each photograph is its maker's own, trimmed to the object, scaled inside one 672 px box and stood on one floor line. Two were cut out of composites: the WonderMill from a shot shared with bread loaves, and the VEVOR from a marketplace collage — its loose grain and beans were removed, the corn left in the hopper is the maker's own framing. The NutriMill Classic still carries the maker's grey studio backdrop; a re-cut was attempted twice and would have cut into the mill, so the plate is left as the maker published it.
  10. The documents each row was read from are named under the model name. The document behind each individual figure is printed beside that figure on the mill's own page.

Guides that work from these mills

Each guide answers one decision from the manuals, with two of these mills as its worked examples.

  • Manual vs electric grain millsThe hand-cranked Country Living mill against the 1200-watt NutriMill Classic on effort, batch size, motorization, off-grid use and published evidence.

the grain is ground between steel plates.

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