OKF 550g Grain Mill 304 Stainless Steel Spice Grinder

I always read reviews before purchasing an item. There were complaints that the motor burned out quickly on this mill. Here what I believe lies the problem. When milling grain berries, seeds or really anything. The whole mill gets very hot. Enough to burn your skin. After I empty the contents. I wait at least 10 to 15 minutes before using the mill again. This allows the whole mill time to cool down. I will definitely get many years of use from this mill.DO NOT RUN THIS MILL CONTINUOUSLY FOR MORE THAN 5 MINUTES. Or the motor will burn out quickly. I NEVER run the mill continuously for more than 3 minutes. At 3 minutes the mill turns 500 grams of Hard White Wheat Berries into a fine flour. DO NOT SUBMERGE THE MILL IN WATER. Use the provided brush and a damp not dripping wet cotton towel. To clean the inside and outside of mill. I fortunately have an air compressor and blow out any residual dust left. Then I wipe the mill down with a day not dripping wet cotton cloth.This mill is quite noisy and don’t leave the mill running and walk away from it. It does move around on my counter top. Enough that it could possibly make it to the edge of my counter top and fall off. Don’t add more volume than your mill says.After several uses. I used a cordless impact driver with a 17 mm deep well impact socket. To removethe acorn nut and blades. To deep clean the mill and look for any worn out parts. Using the provided brush and a damp not dripping wet cotton cloth.I made excellent whole wheat grain bread. Using the mill to grind into flour Hard White Wheat Berries. I also used my Kitchen Aid K5SS. With the dough hook to knead the dough until it doesn’t tear apart and stretches. This took 13 minutes. Whole wheat grain bread is actually healthy. I also incorporated toasted Sun Flower seeds,toasted Pumpkin Seeds. Flax and sesame seeds into the dough the last 3 minutes. This grain bread is absolutely delicious. It also freezes well and is easy to slice with a serrated bread knife when froze. NO PRESERVATIVES .I also always have on hand Sour Dough Starter. No yeast required to make bread. The difference in taste between packaged yeast and the natural wild yeasts floating around in the air and naturally on Wheat Berries and in Wheat or White flour. That creates the sour dough starter. Is like night and day. Don’t get me wrong, packaged yeast is perfectly fine to use instead of sour dough starter. I do occasionally use yeast when making certain recipes.Sour Dough Starter is simple to make yourself. It can take up to 12 days for the Sour Dough Starter to be able to be used. Usually 4 to 6 days. You do have to discard half of it Sour Dough Starter. Until it is ready to use. After that you use half of your Sour Dough Starter then add the same amount of flour and non chlorinated water to the left over Sour Dough Starter. It will last in your refrigerator for at least 2 weeks before the Sour Dough Starter begins to spoil. If the 2 weeks are nearing. Discard half of the Sour Dough Starter and add equal amounts of flour and non chlorinated water. DO NOT USE DISTILLED WATER. You should always use non chlorinated water when making bread. I’ve a filter for the cold water on my kitchen faucet. Sometimes I will double filter the already filtered water from my cold water side of my kitchen faucet. By running the already filtered water through my 1 gallon container brita filter. The night before I’m going to make more bread. I boil a gallon of water from the cold side of my kitchen faucet. After boiling the water for 5 minutes. I remove it from the stove and put a lid on the pot. Doing this will dissipate any chlorine that shouldn’t be present from the filtered cold water from my kitchen faucet. You can also use spring or purified water.There are plenty of easy to follow recipes to make Sour Dough Starter on YouTube. If you enjoy making you own bread? Go ahead and make your own Sour Dough Starter. It will last indefinitely if you use it regularly and replace the same amount of flour and water.

Great for making peanut butter, can’t wait to use it for flour making!

This is the first electric grain mill I’ve purchased. It certainly can do the job but is difficult to clean. Maybe it’s just me & my OCD tendencies. It would have been nice if the manufacturer had included a wrench to remove the blades. Once I have one maybe the cleaning won’t be so difficult. When I turn it on, I have to hold on to it because it’s so powerful it jerks itself around. Before I bought this mill, I researched a lot of mills in this price range & from what I could tell they all have the same setup. I’ve only ground rice & eggshells so far. It took no time & I had a very fine powder. Neither one of my food processors can get a fine powder. The machine is impressive. Except for the cons I mentioned above, I would have given it 5 stars. Overall, I would buy it again.

Bought this as a gift and my daughter absolutely loves it. Easy to use and clean, not too loud. Very reasonable price compared to other options.

Is is so powerful! It grind all that I put in it into dust in seconds and it is easy to clean as well. It functions the way it say it should and the instructions are easy to follow. From I put in the required amount I have no problem with spillage. It gets hot but I understand will due to how fast it grinds the items but I'm okay with that.

When I first opened the grinder and checked it out, I thought I had been sold a Mickey Mouse product. I am used to grinders with stone grinding wheels that crush the grains into powder. This unit uses a stack of various shaped blades of different diameters. The instructions told me to not clean the unit with water, but to put some rice in the grinding container, grind it, then use the powder for cleaning the sides. Hmm, I thought, this is weird. I turned the grinder on and within 30 or 40 seconds, the rice had been reduced to a very fine powder. Unbelievable! I am so pleased. This really does work. I will be grinding wheat and buckwheat and other grains in the future. Great product for the price.

The mill itself worked great. Unfortunately the lid was shaving off pieces of metal into the flour. I’m so glad I was able to see it before I baked bread for my family. I received a full refund however even though I explained what happened, the company did not say they were going to investigate. I hope they do. Either way, I would not purchase this mill and I will not buy any stainless steel mill going forward.

Update:the customer service of the seller is fantastic. Despite the time difference, the seller is as prompt to respond as possible. They have been beyond fair in resolving the issue. I appreciate the helpfulness, promptness, and willingness to quickly resolve the issue!I loved this mill initially. I have had it less than a year. Been using it regularly for maybe 7 months. Never had it run 5 minutes milling wheat berries without shutting off. The most of its use I had to run it 30 seconds, give it a few minutes break, repeat this process maybe 5-10 times and settle with the flour produced (sometimes fine, often not. Now, it runs 7 seconds and trips. It’s always seemed to overheat. All I’ve ever killed has been wheat berries. Not overfilling the hopper. I’m very bummed with this investment. Now I am stuck needing to purchase a new one 9 months later