So I used my Vitamix last night to turn Wheat Berries into flour. I should start by saying in an effort to change my dieat I want to start making as many things as I can from scratch. So I ordered 35 pounds of wheat berries online...no that's not a type-o, that's 35 bloody pounds of wheat berries. 10 pounds hard red wheat berries and 25 pounds soft white.
You need a hard white or red berry for making bread. The soft one is for baking. So these two bags will fit into one of those big buckets you can buy at home depot. I think it's 10 gallons. So I decided last night I would mill some flour up to see how easy it would be. In the Vitamix you can mill 2 cups at a time and it takes a minute. Very easy but noisy. I did learn though that 2 cups of berries turns into 3 cups of flour...I then looked down at my 10 gallon bucket...so that makes 15 gallon bucket worth of flour...oh dear lord! I wont need flour for the next year! ....but then again if I plan to bake everything from scratch probably wont last as long as I would hope.
Why did I buy so much you ask? That's easy. It cost 19 bucks to buy a jar of 1.75 pounds of berries yet it only cost I think it was like $16 for a 10 pound bag....it actually cost more in shipping then it did for the cost of the berries themselves. I think that's why it's cheaper for the bulk. Plus you're not paying for the jar. All together it was like 68 I think for the 35 pounds so it was just over 2 bucks a pound.
Once I have a day off I'm going to try to make some bread which should be an interesting experiment. I'm excited. I'm going to make peanut butter bread with real peanuts. Hopefully it turns out.
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