NutriMill Harvest Stone Grain Mill, 450 Watt - Periwinkle

My first experience with NutriMill was not a very pleasant one. I had a problem with my NutriMill Plus and I got tired of waiting on them to reply to my e-mail. So I called. The person that answered the phone was very rude and I was even more rude and we will probably never exchange pleasantries again. As a result, I disassembled the Plus and took care of the problem myself. This was back in December of 2021.Nine months later, My Plus has died. (Instead of flowers, a donation may be made to The Society to Prevent Premature Grain Mill Death. (For those of you with ABSOLUTELY no sense of humor, thats a joke.)On my review of the Nutrimill Plus, I lamented that I should have gotten the NutriMill Harvest because I grind only as much grain as I need for my particular recipe. The Plus was actually far more mill than I needed. Hence, the title. Be clear about your needs.So far this year, I have made approximately ninety loaves of bread, one at a time. I do not bake three loaves and then freeze two of them. I like my bread fresh and I enjoy baking.If you bake more than three loaves, then the Harvest is probably not for you. I would recommend the Nutrimill Classic over the Plus simply because mine lasted nine months.I used my Harvest this morning and I am impressed by the fit and finish. The people that made my Harvest took a lot of pride in their work.If the Harvest is so impressive, then why only four stars?I ordered my Harvest on September fifteenth of this year. Since my first experience was so unpleasant, I decided to extend an olive branch and let Nutrimill know that I harbored no ill will.Still waiting on ANY kind of reply.Funny story...When I ordered the Harvest, I ordered the one with the gold trim. While I was looking through the list of NutriMill Harvests in all of their colorful livery, I noticed the Nutrimill Harvest in Periwinkle. I've never heard of Periwinkle, but it had a forty five dollar coupon.COOL! I get to save forty five dollars!So I canceled the one with gold trim, confirmed the cancelation and ordered the Harvest in Periwinkle.Yesterday, I received my NutriMill harvest in Periwinkle...AND Gold.So I called Customer Service, talked to a very nice guy. He is sending me a return shipping label so I can send the gold one back to them.BTW...Periwinkle apparently is a light blue.The box even says "Light Blue", but the pick ticket says "Periwinkle".Go figure.Y'all have a great day.Pete

Basically doing great job for not German made prices so giving 5 stars. I make bread/pancakes/muffins which are all pretty forgiving- don’t know about pastries in terms of how fine it goes. My main issue/quirk is that adjustment. To get the grind fine, one needs to screw it down not just to where the stones start to touch but waaay past this. To avoid so much stone on stone, I start it backed up to coarse, throw in the grains, then quickly crank it to super fine, then right before it’s done back it up again. If it cost the same as the German machines I’d dock points, but as it stand I’m working with it. Pretty on the counter:)

I bought this grain mill because I wanted a grain mill to make my own flour, most other grain mills were out of stock, or on back order. I did a good amount of research beforehand and my options were to wait until others came available or try one that was in stock. I had originally been waiting for the Nutrimill Plus, but I saw this one was in stock and was on sale for $300 with $45 dollar off coupon so I thought I would try it. When I opened it, it is beautiful. I followed the directions to clean it with 2 cups of rice. I used long grain brown rice. While using the long grain brown rice, I tried different grinding settings. The coarse setting barely seem to do anything to the rice, there was some mild abrasions. The fine setting did grind the rice fine but it was loud and the stones were bumping up against each other and the instructions say if it does that, sounding like it might lock up to open up the stones a bit more turning counter clockwise. After the first grind I threw the flour away, cleaned it out and then tried short grain brown rice which the mill didn't do good with, even the finest setting the rice had mild abrasion and it flew out of the grain mill onto the counter. The stones on this mill also has some indentations in the stone and it wasn't an even surface which could have been the cause of uneven grinding. Im not sure the pictures show the indentations well. Upon looking at some more reviews I've decided to return it. I will have to wait for another one to come back into stock. I hadn't tried any other grains because of unsuccessful short grain rice grinding.

Great