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The
Grain Master Whisper Mill
- Fine
Flour, Fast & Easy: The
heart of the GrainMaster Whisper Mill is its innovative Microburst
milling chamber. Scores of stainless steel fins spinning at
high speed literally explode grain to produce a very fine flour.
This "impact milling" technology has all the advantages of the
old stone flour mills but none of their problems; there's no
gumming, jamming or glazing, and the GrainMaster Whisper Mill
won't overheat.
- Quiet:
Unlike earlier impact mills that had extremely loud, painfully
high-pitched sound levels, the Grain Master Whisper Mill sounds
like a normal vacuum cleaner in use. Oftentimes customers tell
us they have one of those other mills, and are buying the Whisper
Mill because they're just sick of the sound level; many have
been wearing ear protectors to mill their grain, and some have
been milling outdoors.
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- Powerful:
The Grain Master Whisper Mill grinds nearly 100 lbs. of flour per
hour. Its strong 1-3/4 h.p. motor is maintenance-free. Whisper Mill
runs on standard 110 volt current.
- Multi
Grain & Bean Milling: The Grain
Master Whisper Mill mills wheat (both hard and soft), oats, rice,
triticale, kamut, spelt, dried pinto beans, dried green beans, popcorn,
split peas, buckwheat, barley, rye, millet, sorghum, dried mung beans,
soybeans, dried corn and chick peas.
| Special Note: Pleasant Hill Grain sold the Whisper Mill for years, and for years it was the best impact mill made. But after a change of ownership, service from the Whisper Mill company began to decline. We continued to offer the Whisper Mill for some time because we were able to fill the service gap for our customers, but the company's behavior finally reach such a bad state that we said "no more" and dropped the product. A short while later we got word that the company had, without warning, closed their doors. In doing so, the owners turned their backs on obligations they had to us and to many other parties. Happily, the Nutrimill grain mill is now available. The Nutrimill does everything the Whisper Mill did, and offers major advancements. First, the Nutrimill company is owned by entirely different people — people who, in our experience, have displayed a high level of integrity and who have always provided good service to us and to our Nutrimill customers. Secondly, the Nutrimill can be turned on with grain already in the hopper, and can even be switched off and back on again with grain still in the milling chamber. Doing that with a Whisper Mill
would plug it, often requiring the user to return it to the manufacturer for warranty repair — an option that's no longer available. Most of our Whisper Mill owners avoided these pitfalls, but it took only one lapse (possibly by an uninformed or forgetful family member or friend) to cause a real problem. The technology of the Nutrimill makes such troubles a thing of the past. Thirdly, the Nutrimill has a much wider range of texture adjustability than the Whisper Mill. No impact mill can make "cracked grain" (large coarse chunks typically used for making cooked cereals), but the Nutrimill can grind much coarser than the Whisper Mill (a medium meal texture) or much finer (for pastry flour)... as well as anywhere in-between. So it's ideal for making bread flour, but can also do other things. Fourth, the Whisper Mill's 12 cup flour capacity is far exceeded by the Nutrimill's 20 cup flour capacity. The form factor of the two mills is an apples-and-oranges comparison... the Whisper Mill's milling unit was a little smaller than the Nutrimill, but because its flour bin sat outside the mill, the Nutrimill actually occupies less space, with its larger-capacity flour bin that slides into the lower part of the mill housing. Our conclusion is that the Nutrimill is a big step forward in grain milling. It's fast, easy, convenient, and with its self-cleaning milling heads, all you do when you're done using it is rinse out the flour pan. It's easy to see why it's been the best-selling grain mill in the world for a couple of years now. The bottom line for us is the judgement of our customers: We sell a lot of Nutrimills and our customers are delighted with them — we virtually never receive one back from anyone who was disappointed. You can see the Nutrimill here and we'll be happy to visit with you about any grain milling questions if you'd like to give us a ring! |
This view shows the stainless steel fins of the MicroBurst
milling chamber. The two plates fit together, with the left
side rotating at thousands of RPM's. |
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