- Tool to share the benefits of fresh-milled flour
- Ideal for health coaches, teachers, sourdough educators & home bakers
- Great display for your farmer's market stand
- Easily educate others about the nutritional benefits of grinding your own flour at home
$24.00
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Grain Milling Demo Set
A picture's still worth at least a thousand words. Want to show your family and friends just what they're being shorted by eating food made with so-called white flour? Here's the ideal tool to put things in perspective. The first of the six vials in this set contains whole wheat kernels, recognized throughout history as the "staff of life". At the opposite end is bleached white flour, as gleaming and nutritionless as industrial science can make it. And the same thing is done to other types of grain.
The four middle vials with the wood base showcase the nutritional riches that today's commercial millers sacrifice on the altar of unlimited shelf life: The bran, middlings, wheat germ, and wheat germ oil, where virtually all the goodness of the whole grain resides. None of that goodness remains in white flour—but you can have it all, by making your own fresh, better-tasting flour from whole grains with a fast, convenient, modern grain mill in your home kitchen. You'll wonder what you ever saw in "styro bread"!
Whether you're a home baker, health coach, teacher, sourdough educator, you have a farmer's market stand,
or you simply enjoy sharing the benefits of freshly milled flour and real food with your family and friends,
you can use this demo set as a teaching tool.
WHOLE GRAIN NUTRITION: HARVEST THE BENEFITS!
Imagine that for years, your children ate mainly candy. Imagine that you did, too. Imagine an entire nation on a candy diet. Imagine the health consequences.
Natural whole grains contain a myriad of health-essential nutrients, from proteins to vitamins, essential
amino acids, and crucial fiber. But "white flour" consists only of the starchy endosperm of the wheat
kernel. In its natural form the endosperm provides wholesome energy, but it's the least nutrient-rich
part of the grain. Removed are the nutrient-packed bran, wheat germ, and wheat germ oil. Then to make
it extra white, industrial processors go further, chemically bleaching it, and returning just enough
of a few vitamins to stave off beriberi and rickets. They're allowed to call the end product "Enriched
Flour" but a truthful label would read "Impoverished Flour." This snow white, denutritionalized substance
is a commodity worth billions of dollars annually to its merchandisers because of a commercially useful
trait: Unlimited shelf life. No matter how long it sits in the mass distribution channel, it can't go
bad precisely because there's actually nothing left in it that can go bad. Nutritionally, it's bad when
bagged. A few companies have grown enormously rich marketing this pseudo-food on the basis of convenience,
ease, and its dazzling white appearance. And to make matters worse, artificial sweeteners, flavors and
colors, appetite stimulants and preservatives are added to many of our foods, including numerous substances
banned by other countries for their unhealthfulness. "Artificial" tells you those things aren't naturally
food. But have you ever wondered
what they actually
are, then? Did you know some of them are actually petroleum derivatives? And what harmful effects
might these complex counterfeit compounds be having on us?
The human body is an absolute marvel; scientists have a long way to go to understand more than a small fraction of how we work. But as capable and as resilient as our bodies are, common sense and history teach that we need wholesome, nutritious food to remain healthy and strong. The denatured byproducts being mass marketed today don't provide what we need, because they've been profoundly altered by processes in which real nutrition is considered last, or not at all.
There's a great solution to this problem. By grinding grains in your kitchen and using the whole grain
flour while it's fresh, you get the nutrition needed for strength and health. You also get far tastier
food, with genuine character—incomparably more satisfying than today's mass marketed pretenders. After
transitioning to whole grains, putting out a plate of white styro-bread will elicit comments like "Why
are you giving us
this
... and where's the
good stuff
?". Even flour labeled as "whole grain" in stores falls far short of what you can easily grind yourself,
because unless it's ground while you wait, the essential Vitamin E in true whole grain flour would go
rancid in days (meaning that it's probably been removed), and all nutrients begin steadily oxidizing-away
from exposure to oxygen as soon as grain is milled. What's in those bags is
not
whole grain flour if it's been sitting on a shelf for even a few days; that's literally impossible.
Making real food is more than doable, it's positively fun with help from Pleasant Hill Grain! A grain mill is the place to start. And to make whole grain bread quickly, easily and with consistently wonderful results, nothing beats a quality stand mixer that's capable of mixing and kneading bread that's ready to pop in the oven—quickly and without hand kneading. These machines make it easy to turn the corner to a far better and more enjoyable way of eating!
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9 reviews
My newly ground wheat bread the first week of my KoMo “Mill” experience was inedible. There was but little guidance on settings for the various types of flour other than “backoff one notch from hearing the stones grinding noise“. If that is true then why have a dozen other settings? A KoMo Bread Recipe Guide Pamphlet might help. Being on my own with The Great Oracle “Google” for milling and newly ground wheat baking guidance has been difficult. Because of the aforementioned issues I’ve already lost my excitement for baking and my KoMo Mill will most likely work its way along my kitchen counter to reside on a dusty old garage shelf. Alas, I want my enthusiasm back!
I never gave much thought to how my flour was processed until I got the glass containers showing me what really happens in the milling of flour. It an eye opener and wakeup call for anyone who wants to stay healthy.
It's hard to convince other people that all of the nutrition of grain is extracted during the average milling process. This little set of six vials do more than any other picture or explanation because they allow a person to actually see what they're missing when they use common white flour. A friend of mine whose father was a German baker and who has used 25 pounds of flour a week for the last thirty years was completely blown away and now wants to grind her own whole wheat flour for everything she bakes. That is the kind of explanatory power this set has.
I've bought at least 20 of this over the years, keep giving them away because they show so well how much is given up when going to white flour from whole wheat berries. Fortunately, due to the great varieties of wheat offered here, I don't resort to white flour much anyway.
We have had to replace this a few times, yet always find it valuable in educating customers. This time we will keep the plastic wrap on it!
For a slight increase in cost, this could have been so much better were it a little larger. I need a magnifying glass. The vials are 1/2 in diameter, and there's a lot of refraction as the tube curves away form you. Less than 1/4 field of view.
When people come over who wonder why my bread
Very good to teach the milling process as to what is removed to make modern day Jflour.
I bought this to have on display at my farmer's market to help educate and give a visual to the milling process and parts of flour. Wonderful tool to have.
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