Hand Crank FLOUR MILL and FLATBREAD

i esteem you from Gill brook farm when we take you along on our journey to become more self-reliant this is our off-grid cooking series and today we are going to grind gluten-free flour the off-grid way so while back we did a prepper Q&A and we had a few people that had asked us what kind of kitchen tools we were transitioning to that did not require electricity and I mentioned a coffee grinder and a few other things that you know we were slowly buying and replacing with off-grid tools and I said that the one thing that I really wish that I had was a hand mill for grinding flour and the reason that I hadn't purchased one to this up to this point was because they ran up there around $1,000 and it's just not something that I could afford well the couple viewers had recommended the wonder mill jr. and I'd never heard of it before I heard of wonder mill of course because I do have an electric wonder mill but somehow I never heard of the jr. it's a hand mill and when I looked into it I found that this is actually even better than some of these $800 or $1000 hand mills because it has the ability to buy adapters that can grind oily things so things such as peanut butter and sunflower seeds and flax seeds and for the price point that it's at it's totally worth buying and so we ended up getting one and we got additional accessories to go with it so we do have the ability to do a variety of different seeds and beans and oils and all that kind of stuff one of the accessories that we got was a clamp to clamp to the table because when you buy the wonder mill it just comes like this and you can mold it to your countertop and that's not something that we wanted to do so we ended up getting the clamp we also got the nut butter auger because we do want to end up making our own nut butter as well as other oily things and then we got the stone set this is the stone grinder this is just for regular dry grains and then we also got the steel burst this is the other grinder and this is for when you're doing oily things we also got a couple other accessories if you don't feel like hand cranking this thing which you know can be tiresome depending on what you're grinding we got a sprocket to test out which we can hook up to a bicycle chain and then we got this little adapter which will hook up to an electric drill now we're gonna get this thing set up I'm gonna show you guys how to actually get this set up and use it and by me I mean Jeremy because this is his forte and not mine so okay hey guys I'm going to mount the mill over here onto this table now you can mount this using the bolts straight through if you want a more permanent mount and we kind of intended to mount this to our kitchen countertop unfortunately this is so deep and so big it won't fit on our countertop because most kitchen countertops have only a one inch overhang but that's okay this actually works better I have this old table the old office table that is actually at a better height it's lower so we can work with it better and this can become now our flour grinding station so that's exactly what we're gonna do we're gonna put this on and it's pretty easy you want the opening facing away from the handle so you just kind of bolt this on here like this comes with four bolts and washers [Music] all right now I'm gonna tighten these with just a socket this is like 7/16 I believe [Music] now let's do it hand tight because these are plastic everything else is steel okay we got our mill mounted to our table and I have these laid out here so you can see the different options we have as far as milling stones or grinding stones these are the stones that you use to grind things that are not oily like rice and things like that and they're actual stone mount it to a steel backing plate and these are the steel burrs that you use to grind the more oily things like peanuts and almonds or whatever you want to do to make nut butter those that's what you use the steel for now it also comes with a set of Springs like the in this little bag that's hand written which is cool there's a thin spring that is silver and a thicker spring that is black and you use the thin spring with the stones and use the black spring with the steel burs that's this creates friction with the stones to allow you to adjust the grind and this is the adjustment knob to put the stones together so I'll show you how we do that alright so when you're doing mounting this make sure you push this as far forward as you can and I'm gonna stand back here and kind of hold it that way now we got our silver spring we're going to put into there and this particular stone is the one that has the holes that mounts up to here and this can only go one way because you can see these are kind of closer together than these are so it kind of looks like a why so this only goes one way under there like that so first put your flour guide on and put your stone on and then take this one and put it on this augur that put on your handle or your adjustment knob just tighten it so just so that everything stops moving around you don't want to crank it too much yet kind of like just like that okay now when you go to run this for the very first time with a new set of stones you throw away your first batch because you're breaking in the stones and it'll be full of like grit and grime and stuff so just take a you know a batch of rice and throw it through and just grind it and then throw that batch away the way this works is this back stone that is permanently fixed to the mill stays fixed and when you crank it it only turns this stone so that's how that works and you want to make sure that you always only ever turn this clockwise because the way this auger is threaded its threaded to move material this way you know forward if you if you crank it counterclockwise you'll be you know clogging it up by moving stuff backwards and you don't want to do that so always go clockwise all right so we're gonna do about a cup of rice to break in the stones this is just a batch of we're gonna throw away the reason for that is because you know when using the stones for the first time you'll notice that there's a lot of grit that comes off and that's not something you want your food so we'll just take I have my rice here I'm just gonna take a cup spill it on the table and we're gonna grind and this is the first time we did this we're doing this so let's see how it works all right after a couple cranks you can see that there's whole rice pieces coming out so we're gonna adjust the knob a little bit make it tighter [Music] problem I'm having as my table is sliding around on me this is pretty heavy table so I can see why you might want this mounted to a counter top and and it's not that it's all that hard to push it's just that when I'm pushing this it's pushing the table as well destroyed [Music] [Music] so there's definitely some some grit in here I can see some black pieces and there's some whole pieces of rice now when you're using a hand mill sometimes it takes two or three passes before you get to the consistency that you want so let's run it through again we're going to tighten down or knob if I were actually gonna use this flower I'd want to grind it a third time because it's it's still a little too coarse for what I would I would use in any kind of cooking but this is our first batch this is one we're throwing away so I'm gonna toss this and then we're gonna get to making our gluten-free flour alright so now we're gonna grind up some of our gluten-free flour Bund now I make this the same way as I did in the first video that I made about a year ago it is two cups of gluten-free oats here's two cups of any kind of white rice I don't recommend brown rice just because one it's a little bit oily ER and two gives a different flavor to the loaf sometimes it can end up being a little bit dry two different kind of baked goods so I don't use brown rice and then four cups of tapioca starch and the only thing that I changed from the original recipes I used to put the xanthan gum in with the flour and now I only add the xanthan gum whenever I'm actually making a recipe it just it's easier to control the amount plus the anything gums pretty expensive quick note on xanthan gum xanthan gum is optional but in having done tests in not using xanthan gum in recipes the products are definitely not as good as with a xanthan gum they just don't have that chewiness a lot of times they just flake and fall apart and that might be good for a pie crust but when it comes to bread you don't want crumbly bread so I would recommend using xanthan gum but for those of you that don't like it or allergic to it or something like that then you can leave it out so the very first thing we're gonna grind is our 2 cups of oats right I just used regular us just regular rolled oats they are gluten free they're not steel cut and we're going to start by putting one cup in [Music] [Music] [Laughter] so this comes with a little brush to help you clean your stones so I'm gonna show you how to make a flatbread with the gluten-free flour that we just made so we're gonna use one egg and then I'm going to use a pint of beans now I have garbanzo beans here you can use any type of bean that it's already cooked we just want to drain off all the gooey stuff you can also use a pint of mashed potatoes you can use boiled beets or any kind of boiled root vegetable that you want it's pretty versatile I've made a bunch bunch of different varieties of this but we're gonna use garbanzo beans cuz that's what I have I'm gonna go drain these and I'll put them in the blender alright there's our garbanzo beans and we're just gonna blend that up gonna add a little bit of salt about half a teaspoon we're gonna add some baking powder to give it a little bit of foof Floop is my kids word of prob about half a tablespoon and like I said earlier I add xanthan gum to my recipe so again probably about half a tablespoon the fact that I don't measure tends to bother a lot of people but I personally think it makes you a better a better cook overall because you learned to look at the recipe and understand what's going right or wrong with it rather than just following somebody else's instructions all right now we're going to start off with how about a cup and a half of flour [Music] and we'll just blend that all together I [Music] need to scrape that down a bit [Music] all right now we're gonna add a little drizzle of water to this kind of forms a ball [Music] that's about we're looking for that kind of consistency we're gonna roll these out into flat patties and then we're going to put them on the grill and grill up some flatbread [Music] [Music] this is the griddle accessory to our propane grill we're gonna get this lit move on over and then get some coconut oil on there and then get our flatbread gone [Music] [Music] just got yelled at for using metal so I got the plastic spatula [Music] alright guys so that's how we grind flour off-grid that's one of the tools one of the many tools that you can use if you are looking for some sort of option for grinding flour when the power is out and also I've added recipe this is how I make my flatbread we're probably going to slice up some roast beef and put it on here with some cheese and maybe some peppers and have a nice dinner do you guys like this kind of stuff we have a lot more videos coming out on an off-grid cooking and just off-grid methods as we go through and learn them ourselves so stay tuned like subscribe say in the next video thanks for watching switching over to off-grid methods with and did not make any sense Krammer alright guys so that's how we make top

Channel: Guildbrook Farm

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Id: lCtlo-Ny_qQ

Length: 17min 15sec (1035 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 17 2017