Show Me Your Grinder

That’s cool on several levels.

I also just learned something… “Grob” means coarse, rough, etc. now I’m going to have to search for the origin of the Grob Aircraft name. :eek:
 
Beautiful mill!

We had one with a plastic hopper when I was growing up, and it had a bunch of different attachments to use depending on if you wanted flour, rolled oats, steel cut oats, and even had a few you could use to process tomatoes or apples into sauce. We used it all the time. We always bought the oat and wheat we fed into it, though, as we didn't live on enough land to grow grain in the quantities needed. We'd get a couple of 50lb sacks of each every couple months through a bulk food company. It was always an exciting event because it came on a full-sized semitruck! My siblings and I were easily entertained as kids. :)
 
NealRomeoGolf said:
I do not. I buy it. Sometimes in bulk. Sometimes in small batches. I have a couple hundred pounds sitting in my basement at the moment.
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SkyChaser said:
Beautiful mill!

We had one with a plastic hopper when I was growing up, and it had a bunch of different attachments to use depending on if you wanted flour, rolled oats, steel cut oats, and even had a few you could use to process tomatoes or apples into sauce. We used it all the time. We always bought the oat and wheat we fed into it, though, as we didn't live on enough land to grow grain in the quantities needed. We'd get a couple of 50lb sacks of each every couple months through a bulk food company. It was always an exciting event because it came on a full-sized semitruck! My siblings and I were easily entertained as kids. :)
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Looks like @2-Bit Speed will need to start digging a basement.....
 
So home baked bread? Cakes? What else with all this fresh ground flour?
 
NealRomeoGolf said:
Or at least wheat grinders is what I meant. I wasn't kidding @SkyChaser . I have an Austrian-made grinder called a Komo. Does a great job for me. I have tons of wheat in storage. Need to start running through it.

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Moving the control knob to the right “Grob” is indeed the ‘course’ setting. In this case, Grob is pronounced “gross” very likely ending with what the Germans call a Sharfes S. Usually written as a mark similar to the Greek letter beta. Google “Scharfes S” to learn more. Because of this I think it is unlikely that the Grob setting has anything to do with the aircraft manufacturer. But I only took a German I class back in 1963, so…. “I know nothing!” -quoting Sgt. Shultz, Hogan’s Heros

-Skip
 
Not a grinder, a mill.

Wife has a a KoMo Fidibus 21 at one house and a Nutrimill equivalent at the other. She grinds all the flour she uses for baking, and she bakes 100% the bread we consume.
 
Racerx said:
@Tools what ya got? I don't have pics of any of my grinders, but they look VERY different from these
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If I wasn't in the field I'd be taking pictures of all my grinders. I can think of 8. One is even a grain grinder Teresa has for her kitchen aid mixer. I'm guessing Tools has a whole wall of them.
 
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Gary Ward said:
I just burned up a dewalt angle grinder after pretty many years. I am thinking Milwaukee next?
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Makita 9005b has been my go to for years. Have tried Hitachi, metabo, and DeWalt. Even a different model Makita. I like a trigger and lock on switch in a 5 inch grinder. A surprisingly difficult combination to find. Always went back to the 9005b
 
Jim K said:
If I wasn't in the field I'd be taking pictures of all my grinders. I can think of 8. One is even a grain grinder Teresa has for her kitchen aid mixer. I'm guessing Tools has a whole wall of them.
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I only have four, two angle grinders and two bench grinders. Tools will probably put us all to shame.
 
NealRomeoGolf said:
I do not. I buy it. Sometimes in bulk. Sometimes in small batches. I have a couple hundred pounds sitting in my basement at the moment.
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Are you into sourdough? That’s one of my wife’s hobbies. She’s more about canning, fermenting, and freeze drying this time of year. That ends in a couple of days.

My grinders are meat grinders. My fav is making Portuguese sausage. I had (have) a great teacher. She made a living selling it to restaurants in Hawaii for decades. My wife’s second mom.
 
Racerx said:
Makita 9005b has been my go to for years. Have tried Hitachi, metabo, and DeWalt. Even a different model Makita. I like a trigger and lock on switch in a 5 inch grinder. A surprisingly difficult combination to find. Always went back to the 9005b
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I have a Milwaukee 4.5 corded that is pretty old and hanging in there but it doesn’t get real use like in a real shop. Just hobby use. Was the metabo any good?
 
Old97 said:
I have a Milwaukee 4.5 corded that is pretty old and hanging in there but it doesn’t get real use like in a real shop. Just hobby use. Was the metabo any good?
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It was given to me to try. Paddle type. For my use in a steel fab shop I hate paddles. The grinder itself was fine.
 
Skip Miller said:
Moving the control knob to the right “Grob” is indeed the ‘course’ setting. In this case, Grob is pronounced “gross” very likely ending with what the Germans call a Sharfes S. Usually written as a mark similar to the Greek letter beta. Google “Scharfes S” to learn more. Because of this I think it is unlikely that the Grob setting has anything to do with the aircraft manufacturer. But I only took a German I class back in 1963, so…. “I know nothing!” -quoting Sgt. Shultz, Hogan’s Heros

-Skip
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Actually in this case grob really is grob. They aren't trying to say groß.
 
Stewartb said:
Not a grinder, a mill.

Wife has a a KoMo Fidibus 21 at one house and a Nutrimill equivalent at the other. She grinds all the flour she uses for baking, and she bakes 100% the bread we consume.
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Eh, tomato. Is that like who says weed eater or weed whacker?

Mostly use the flour for making breads and rolls. I like different varieties of honey and having fresh baked bread is a great way to try them. I haven't been doing it much lately. Maybe I need to start again.
 
Mine is a stone grinder. Bought it 40 years ago for my mother. Dad had gluten allergies so it was a corn and rice grinder. No pictures but it’s a heavy duty one with a modified 5 gallon pail for the ground material.
After his passing mother gave it back. Wife made some wonderful breads using our own spring wheat raised here on farm.
 
Half Fast said:
Now we need some classic POA wisdom about the best loading. What kind of flour? What weight per bomb? How do you select the best load for wind conditions?
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How many grains, what kind of primer…

(You do understand that flour is explosive in the right environment. I learned a lot about things that can go “boom” when I was in college.)
 
Half Fast said:
Now we need some classic POA wisdom about the best loading. What kind of flour? What weight per bomb? How do you select the best load for wind conditions?
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Followed by corrections of others' technical errors on the variants of wheat, all starting with "actually". Then a tangential discussion on windy places we have been, with some veiled political references, ending with an open reference and a mod lock.
 
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