VKP1024

I wondered if this mill would perform since it was only $80, and the next one I could find that seemed comparable was $250... I decided to go for this "Deluxe" Model (rather than the less expensive version) so that if I liked it, and wanted to free my hands I could order the electric motor - and I think I probably will, though I will probably grind by hand as much or more than with the motor :) It took about 5 minutes to do a cup, and that's leisurely grinding while watching TV, and picking a few grains of oats out every now and then ;) (Organic grain from a local farm!) My first batch came out SO COARSE!!! And I was very disappointed, but decided to give it a go again, and figured "what the heck, I'll REALLY tighten it!" So I kind of 'forced it' past what felt like tight, and voila! BEAUTIFUL, fine flour!!! The new metal, must have had a bit of a tight spot - I tightened a few times as I grinded, and was making very fine, wonderful flour! The first loaf if rising now, and I sprinkled some of the coarser flour on top - I expect it will be as lovely as it will be yummy! Update: The bread WAS as yummy as it was lovely! The texture was wonderful - and it was all whole wheat flour - no white. I am SOOOO impressed with this little mill!! And I ordered it through my Amazon Prime and got 2 day free shipping! It doesn't get much better! UPDATE: I've been using this regularly (once or twice a week) for a month and a half now, and am very pleased with this purchase. I have and will continue to recommend it to anyone looking for a hand grinder. I'll be ordering the motor one of these days, but am VERY pleased with it's efficiency and ease of use!

We bought this mill to grind wheat berries for my banana muffins. It worked well, though it did take a while to grind 2 cups, but I expected that as this unit is NOT some huge machine. (Please folks: if you need to pump out 8 cups a flour at a time, don't bash a small unit that is made for "small batches" because it's taking you hours! ... grrrr!) OK, rant over. Then I went off wheat (buy the "Wheat Belly" book, lose weight, and cure your digestive issues) and we now use it primarily for buckwheat groats. The muffins taste MUCH better with the freshly ground flour. I've also made rice flour and oat flour. (Don't try sliced almonds ... I didn't figure it would work as they're oily, and it didn't. Get a mini food processor if you're wheat-free and baking with nut meals.) The unit cleans up like a breeze: I just use a kitchen brush and brush inside, outside, right-side, upside-down, very gently shake, and blow into it, brush again, and put it back in the box. (I'm lazy, my husband rinses it out.) It assembles nicely, is made of high quality materials, and is definitely worth the price. Now that my mate is not home as much, I'm going to buy the electric motor as I have neck/back problems. I'm glad the electric crank works slowly. Slow grinding preserves the nutrients much more than fast grinding! And it can be QUIETLY running while I'm assembling utensils and getting the rest of the wet and dry ingredients in their respective bowls. Also, use a wide, rather short bowl that can sit snug to the mill and you'll have no flour spilled on the counter - assuming little kids aren't the operators! Well, this isn't one of my most coherent reviews, but I'm not really awake yet! I hope it helps. Cheers!

The Victorio VKP1024 Deluxe Hand Operated Grain Mill was great, except there was no place in my house to attach it. I had to take it to my daughter's house to use it, and the only place at my daughter's I could use the mill was a granite-top table. The instructions say to attach the mill to a surface with straight sides and to push it all the way against the surface until it stops. That means you have to have a counter with at least a 2 inch overhang, and my counters and my daughter's counters have only a 1 inch overhang. Also, the counters have to have straight sides, which means if you have rounded or beveled edges on your counter tops, the mill will not stay put at all. So, even if you have a bar where you could attach the mill, if the bar does not have straight sides, it just will not attach. However, it was easy to attach the mill to the 2 inch thick granite table top, and it stayed in place with only occasional re-tightening. As far as the operation of the mill, I loved it, and the instructions were clear. A lot of problems people have had with mills is likely that they haven't read the instructions or the instructions were hard to understand. These instructions say that before using, grind 2 cups of plain, white rice to clean the mill, then throw the rice away. They say to expect small metal particles in the rice, but I did not see any. The adjustment knob stayed in position and the flour seemed fine enough, although I am new to grinding flour and making bread. The handle was easy to turn, although I did get a workout when grinding 7 cups of flour! The wheat berries fed through smoothly and the flour dropped into the bowl without making a mess. My next mill was a less-expensive Back to Basics that is supposed to be the same as the VICTORIO VKP1012, and the pictures sure do look the same. Let me assure you, the Back to Basics does not operate the same as this Victorio VKP1024! The Back to Basic assembles very differently than this Victorio VKP1012, and it is definitely not as good. I’m still looking for a hand operated grain mill. If Victorio would fix the attachment problem of the VKP1024 so that it would attach to a standard 1 inch counter overhang, I would definitely repurchase it.

We bought this as an affordable option for our first version of a grinder. We didn't know how much we would use it, but once we got into the habit of grinding our own wheat to make bread, we were hooked! We have since moved on to an electric version, but this one works great for smaller batches, or for locations that don't have elecricity. It is much quieter than the electric versions, it's easy to use, and it really doesn't take up that much space.

This is my first grain mill so I can't compare it to any others, but it is working well so far. I have been using this for about a month now grinding hard white wheat berries for bread and pancakes/waffles. I use it almost exclusively on the fine setting and the flour it produces is very fine and soft. It is very easy to set up and disassemble and easy to clean. The only issue I had was some of the flour was drifting onto the tabletop and floor. The remedy was to use a bowl tall enough to fit under the throat of the mill with very little clearance to catch all the flour. Also, the adjustment knob does stay on its setting without moving, but since I haven't used it on the coarser settings I can't speak to how well it stays on them. It does clamp securely to a table top without loosening. I had to lubricate the clamp screw to get it to turn easily without binding but this was only because the threads were dry, not a manufacturing defect. Now, this little mill will give you a good workout! It should be called "Grain Mill/Exercise Machine". I did know this going in and wasn't surprised. It takes me 12-14 minutes to grind 2 cups of wheat berries (with a couple rest breaks), turning the handle at approximately 1 revolution per second. It must be doing some good because I am grinding for a longer duration and taking fewer breaks! I just consider it a mini exercise routine with some great tasting bread as the payoff. Overall, a great grain mill.

With windmill farms showing up everywhere and reliable energy sources going away there will even be rolling blackouts in our near future. Not to mention storms are other natural disasters that can knock out power. We wanted a manual way to grind our grains so we decided to get this mill. Seems to be very solid and well designed. Simple to use but if you're not in half decent shape you may find the grinding a bit tougher than you may think. We tested it on hard white, hard red and kamut. It did a fine job on all three. We packed it back in the box and will use it when an emergency arises. The directions stated how to put it together but ours had the grinding wheel already installed which makes us think we may have recieved a used one. Not a good business practice if true. Highly recommended

I just opened this today and tried it out. It worked perfectly the first time. I ground slightly over a quarter of a cup of hard red wheat in 1 minute. I ground a cup of pop corn in to corn meal but this took considerably longer, it required adjusting the grinder to a coarser setting. I sifted the corn meal and had approximately 1 table spoon of "stuff" left over that was sifted out. Next I ground a cup of long grain white rice, it went very quickly and ground as easily as the wheat. Finally I found some black eyed peas. They fed into the mill better than the pop corn and ground in to flour fairly easily. The flour made by this mill is not going to be as fine as the store bought flour. With that in mind, people have eaten bread for all of recorded time and they didn't have access to equipment that would have provided them with a flour product as consistant as this. I'm glad I purchased this, I've thought about it for over a year. I'm gladed I waited though, because I was able to purchase the newer model which can be upgraded to a motorized version.

Purchased 5 years ago, have used sporadically in that time. It grinds a good whole wheat flour, which I've used numerous times. It's work to grind flour from wheat or rice, but since it's a manual mill, that's to be expected. Just need more counter tops that are of sufficient depth for it to mount to.

This grinder is better built than I was expecting. On the up side: It’s one piece moulded construction makes for a solid device. The hopper doesn't look very large but once you start hand grinding the hopper suddenly becomes stinking huge and you wonder how long it will take to get finished The actual grinding chamber is well built and nicely adjustable The clamp has enough variance that it can be attached to many different surfaces The handle fits well and is strong enough, I believe, to handle some hard seeds Fit and finish is good. Mould lines have been nicely trimmed and machining such as is required for the grinding chamber is smooth and the pieces fit well Clean up is easy as the grinding chamber reassembles with no hassles, just make sure that all pieces are completely dry before reassembling On the down side: The table clamp is a little flimsy when extended especially if your clamping onto something as thin as a half inch table top. If it was better attached on slides at the grinder column this would greatly reduce the swing out that I have experienced If you don’t buy the motor attachment the hopper is WAY too big, unless you count this as part of your upper body work out Over all it was a good buy and I appreciate being able to grind my own flour which has been sourced form an organic farmer, there is no wondering what might have been added after the seeds were ground as in plants that churn out wheat flour. The peace of mind on just this one item makes this grinder worth buying.

Got this one and the smaller version too. Both operate very well. It is very important to inspect the seeds or grain prior to milling as small rocks might find their way into the mill and wrack havoc with the grinding/milling mechanism. I have milled some oat/barley mix and the flour comes out nice and smooth, my wife then mixed it with whole wheat flour and made awesome tasting bread. Will try next with flex seed and many other kinds of seeds (non-oily seeds only). The whole mill is made of steel, well done and quite thick, obviously made to last. We felt this shopping was one that was definitely not a waste of money.

Yes, this mill does the job of milling grains into very coarse flour. After 3 re-grinds, I was able to make rice flatbreads and dough-boys. But the mount is not sturdy enough, probably due to the rubber gasket being way too soft and the screw lever being too short. The mill also requires constant tapping with the heel of the palm, or slapping, in order to shake the grain and meal down into the screw because the floor angles are too gentle. Overall, this is Okay for survival, but absolutely not good for daily use. It grinds into coarse meal on the 1st grind, into fine meal onto the 2nd, and into coarse flour on the 3d. Also, Amazon dropped the ball. First, it took them almost 1 month to ship, and then they split my order of 2x mills into 2x shipments, with 1 week delivery apart. Huh? UPDATE: I am coming back to upgrade the rating from 3 to 4 stars. The mill works very well on buckwheat and oats. I am still waiting to see how it will work on the new crop of wheat and rye, but my oat cookies and buckwheat pancakes are now awesome. Clearly not a 5-star product, but a strong 4-star for sure.

I have used this for couple of months now, and have had great quality flour with good consistency. I have also got the smaller version as a gift, and it too works great. I would say the bigger version suits my need better, because the mill disk is removable, so I can clean it better and catch any issues with mill early if they ever happen. The mill teeth is very high quality. It is obvious the material is cast professionally by engineers who knew what they were doing. Operation is easy and quick. The hand-mill does work your arm to get decent amount of flour. For an average dude like me, it feels like I am cleaning glass pane when rotating, so it is fairly easy and smooth to make your flour manually. The clamp is really nice. You get 200g flour from about 5 min of milling at average speed. The flour obviously needs to be sifted, even if you want to get whole-wheat flour, because the wheat bran content has to be lower to allow gluten development, so get yourself a nice fine sifter, and sift the milled flour. (Add back small amount of the bran to create whole-wheat breads). The flavour of bread is phenomenally better than what you get from any store-bought flours. I hear there is trace amount of rodent and insect parts in those flours you buy in stores, which require a lot of chemical processing to reduce to acceptable levels, but you never get rid of those completely in any industrial settings. I think there is a Health Canada regulation allowance of 15 particles of pest and rodents per 100 grams of flour (if I remember correctly), which all flour sellers have to comply with. There is another story I heard from a guy who worked in flour mills, who said basically the way to deal with rats in wheat inventory after harvest is to allow the rat to eat and engorge as much wheat as they can, until their gut explodes of disintery. They are then filtered out the rodent corpse and any larvae from the wheat, with some obvious trace amount left. I guess that's where the 15 particles comes in regulations. With your own grain mill though, you will have none of that gross problem. Initially I went cheap and bought one of those corn-mill hoppers. Don't waste your time and money for those if you want to mill wheat. Mine broke a piece and metal and milled it into flour. Had to return. Don't go cheap for your flour mill.

Good build quality, cast aluminum, appears it will last. Nice and compact, large, strong clamp, handle comes off and feed bin comes apart, so it all stores flat in a drawer. Previously had a couple of vertical burr grinders, and the orientation of the handle on this grinder makes it MUCH easier to use. But be prepared, it takes a lot of cranking to get the job done. Which is why I bought the model that will take a motor. Not for the lazy or easily bored. :) I will also be getting the larger burr that they sell for coffee beans as after a brief trial I think the larger auger from the coffee mill will feed better. I was going to buy the motor but it has doubled in price :( , so might go for an extra handle and cut it down and use a cordless drill.