KoMo Fidibus 21, 230V for Overseas
- Beechwood construction
- Grinds from fine flour to coarse meal
- Long life corundum-ceramic burrs
- Cleanup is quick and easy
- Gluten-free grinding liner available
- Made in Austria
KoMo Fidibus 21, 230V for Overseas
Handmade in Austria, KoMo's Fidibus 21 grain mill is compact but powerful. Its attractive beechwood veneer cabinet houses a set of advanced corundum-ceramic burrs and a strong, high efficiency motor with the torque and stamina needed for grinding grain. Its solid beechwood hopper holds nearly two pounds of grain, yet the mill's compact footprint requires little space in your kitchen.
The Fidibus 21 grinds 5 to 6 oz. of flour per minute for bread flour texture. It's the ideal grain mill for exploring the joys of cooking with healthful, natural foods.
What It Grinds
The Fidibus 21 will grind soft or hard wheat, oat groats (dehulled oats), rice, triticale, khorasan, spelt, buckwheat, barley, rye, millet, teff, quinoa, amaranth, and sorghum. It will also grind lentils, most dry beans (pinto, red, kidney & more), and dried, non-oily spices. It isn't suitable for dent (field) corn, soybeans, garbanzo beans (chickpeas), oilseeds like flax or sesame, coffee beans, sugar, cinnamon sticks, or popcorn.

The KoMo Fidibus 21 grinds oats to a wonderfully soft, fine textured flour, but open the stones about five clicks wider than you would for a hard grain like wheat, otherwise the soft oat flour will fill the stones' furrows and infeed will stop. Opening the stones farther will give you a cereal grind for porridge, or coarser yet for cracked oats, similar to steel-cut.
Range of Grind Texture
Grind texture is continuously adjustable from super fine flour to coarse meal and cracked grain, simply by turning the hopper bowl to align its index mark with the graphic scale on the front of the mill. Cleanup is minimal and easy, and access to the milling chamber takes only a moment, requiring no tools.
Award winning performance
KoMo's Fidibus 21 mill received the highest rating from the German natural products magazine Oeko Test, and it's one of our most popular KoMo grinders.
Choose from 110V or 230V models
The KoMo Fidibus 21 electric grain mill is available in the standard 110V version for use on U.S. power, or a 230V version for use overseas. Mills with 230V power are equipped with a Euro plug. More details about the KoMo Fidibus 21 mill are available under the specs tab, above.
Optional interchangeable inserts
If you prepare food for someone with a food allergy, see KoMo's optional interchangeable insert system. This innovative solution lets you grind different types of grain in the same mill while keeping food types completely separate.
At Pleasant Hill Grain, our experience spans the milling spectrum from home-use to commercial. As the exclusive U.S. importer of Austrian-made KoMo mills, Pleasant Hill Grain is proud to represent their fine European craftsmanship to our customers. We'd be delighted to visit with you about a KoMo mill or any aspect of your milling needs. We'd appreciate your business, and we look forward to serving you in any way we can!
KoMo Fidibus 21 Mill |
Milling rate for bread flour texture
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5-6 oz/min
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Hopper fill capacity (wheat) | 1 lb 15 oz (level, lid on) |
Dia. of corundum-ceramic mill stones | 2.95" |
Industrial motor electric rating, watts | 250W (1/3 HP) |
Weight | 13 lbs 11 oz |
Max. height of bowl at spout | 5" |
Dimensions (W x D x H) | 7.25" x 8.5" x12.62" (including spout) |
Warranty | 12 years |
For more details see the specs tab, above.
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 and amino
acids. 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. But a blind eye was turned to the consequences of replacing real whole grain flour
with something that looks special, yet is virtually devoid of nutrition. In essence, candy. So widely
has this nutritional travesty become accepted that we call it—and think of it as—wheat flour. But to
depart further from natural grain flour would scarcely be possible. Then to make matters worse, artificial
sweeteners, flavors and colors, appetite stimulants and preservatives are added to many of our foods.
"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 unintended side effects might
those complex counterfeit compounds have on us?
The human body is an absolute marvel; scientists have a long way to go to understand a tenth 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 downright 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!
KoMo Protects and Restores Forests
Beautiful and strong, wood is one of the most renewable raw materials on our planet, and is far longer-lasting than any kind of plastic. Did you know that choosing a KoMo mill helps preserve not only beech forests, but also the habitat for woodland creatures like this juvenile Stone Marten?
PEFC is the world's largest forest certification organization, protecting more than 750 million acres of forest lands. The global work of PEFC helps ensure that our forests are managed sustainably, and KoMo mills are the only grain mills in the world that meet the sustainability standards of this important certification.
Click here for more info about KoMo and wildlife-protecting PEFC certification.
Highly Recommended Whole Grain Cookbooks & Videos!
Don't miss our treasury of cookbooks for whole grain cooking & baking! We have old favorites and exciting new titles, full of tasty and nutritious recipes. These resources will open up new worlds of whole grain adventure for you, whether you're an old hand or just beginning the journey. Whole grain wheat, beans & alternative grains are all covered!
Click for cookbooks & DVDs.
See bulk whole grain wheat and many other grains.
Click for info on grinding fibrous materials and nuts.
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We use it constantly and love it. We almost never use store-bought flour anymore, and the flavor is wonderful. One thing I wish I'd realized: this model is not quite strong enough to grind corn. Other grains work very well, though.
I've been using this grain grinder for over 10 years--and this is after years of using other grain grinders. I love that it can just sit on my counter top and when I need flour, I shove a bowl under the spout and within minutes have the flour I need without having to put together and take apart what sounds like a jet engine spewing flour in my kitchen. It couldn't be easier than this. I have bought one for each of my daughters and recommend it to anyone that wants to have their own whole grain freshly ground flour.
Simplicity is the overall feature. A simple design with an attractive wood case. User friendly due to the simple adjustments for grind size. Noise level was just a low hum before grain was added, then when grinding it was like a vacuum cleaner running. Cleanup was just pulling out some flour remaining in the spout. Access to the mill stones for cleaning was also simple. It required the grain feed bowl be turned counterclockwise so it could be lifted off exposing the mill stones. A vacuum cleaner would lift out any residual flour, but a brush would also work. So far I've ground some wheat to clean the new stones and two lbs of rye for bread. It took about five minutes to grind the rye on a fine setting. I'm used to using a manual mill for 35 years, so the downside is I will lose my upper body muscle tone. This machine does the job, no problem. Now where is the nearest gym?
I was surprised by how fast it grinds even at the finest setting.
Turning the hopper while in operation allows the easiest way to achieve the correct grind of flour. I can grind very fine for a whole wheat pastry flour, all the way to a cracked wheat. I have found that by grinding a small amount of white rice and discarding it before each actual use maintains clean grinding stones. By using the coarse setting first crack garbanzo beans or small white beans then grind them for flour. This I can use for instant hummus or to thicken soups and stews. If you've never experienced truly fresh bread you're really in for a treat! From the time you start grinding to the finished baked product the aroma in your home is truly appetizing. The Fidibus 21 is easy to use and clean, and looks beautiful too—we leave it out on the counter. I recommend it highly.
The Komo mill works very well with wheat and it does not look like anything can go wrong with it. It did not so well with chickpeas. They would not feed through until I backed the adjustment toward coarse almost all the way and then I jot a mixture of flour and half cracked beans. They would also shoot out at high speed. I have not tried with other beans yet. I ended up using my BlendTec for the chickpea flour.
However, prior to buying the Komo I had no idea that you could even make flour out of beans. I read it in the manual so decided to try it and I am grateful for that inclusion in the manual. I would still buy this again.
Also one difference between the Fidibus and Classic that is not described on the website is that if you are going to make cornmeal you need to grind twice with the Fidibus and according to the manual the Classic can grind in one pass. If I had known this I would have purchased the Classic instead. I have not tried cornmeal yet though. The only difference I could tell from the website was that the Classic ground faster than the Fidibus.
This is an outstanding grain mill, it makes a very good and fine flour, even better than pastry flour. You can set it to a coarse setting too. The flour production rate is quite adequate for this size of mill.
And the support at Pleasant Hill Grain is outstanding. You can buy from them with confidence. We got the top stone detached from the plastic part that holds it and they sent us the replacement assembly free of charge and they included additional bottom grinding stone too! They stand behind their products!
We grow our own wheat and our wheat berries have been waiting for the KoMo Fidibus 21 grain mill as it suits our needs perfectly. It gives a perfect grind with no mess, no cleaning. It's always ready to be used again.
I have celiac disease so wanted to buy a mill to grind grains with. Almost as a spur of the moment thing I researched the best mills, saw this one, and bought it. I've never regretted it. It's beautiful, simple, and very effective. It isn't even super noisy, though of course there is some noise. I love it.
I really like this grain mill. I love making my own flour, and this does such a nice job. I've done wheat berries, einkorn berries all kinds of gluten free flours, and this machine handles them all with ease. Very, very happy with my purchase and would recommend highly.
Love, Love, Love the KoMo Fidibus 21. It's nice looking on the counter, it performs great, makes minimal noise. The best part is that not only does it do a fantastic job, there's no cleanup required. Pleasant Hill Grain did a great job and exceeded my expectations by shipping quickly getting it to me on Christmas eve, a nice surprise.