KoMo Hand Grinder

Great little grinder. I had been wanting a grain grinder but just couldn't justify the expense. Saw this little grinder and liked the design. I am very pleased. Not only does it look great on the counter, it does a good job of grinding hard wheat. In about a minute of grinding I had a cup of wheat to use for bread. Easy handle to turn, simple adjustment of the grind and did I say, looks great out on the counter? Only complaint is that you have to use the clamps to keep this stable and it didn't fit onto my kitchen counter--there wasn't enough overhang to clamp to. So have to grind with it clamped to my kitchen table. Not the end of the world. Also like the fact this will work even if the electricity is out. Still not cheap, but less expensive than the big electric units. While it isn't obviously as fast or easy as a powered model, it gets the job done.

Purchased hoping to make breads and grind/mill fine flour. At the finest setting it takes a VERY long time to mill and the mounting hardware is not sufficient. Returned it and bought the electric Komo Classic.

great

Jams every few minutes.Lots of work for little flour.Even on the finest flour setting you still have to sift the meal out in order to have flour worth baking with.

Someone gave me this mill last year and I have used three or four times already. Every time I found grits in the flour and it was not pleasant for my teeth. Lately I learned those grits were the broken pieces of the stone mill and they are basically Aluminum Oxide and adhesives!

If you bake tons of bread daily, have a large family, or plan to grind all of your flour on the finestof settings you will probably need a different mill. But for those of us who are more casual bakers,this is almost perfect.I have owned my mill for nearly six months. It works great on wheat, rye, barley, spelt and rice. Corn andoat groats clog it up. Malted barley should be processed in a blender or a different mill. Fortunately, the millis easy to disassemble and clean. Moist flour can be removed from the stones with a chopstick and a pastry brush.Despite being such a small mill, it is possible to grind a cup of coarse flour in just a few minutes. For finerflour, you will need to regrind it at a tighter setting. I've stopped doing this because it can take a very loooooongtime. After consulting several websites, I now add water to my coarse flours and let them sit 24-48 hours in therefrigerator to hydrate. I then add this mixture to King Arthur All Purpose flour and my sourdough starter or instant yeast.I make my bread as usual. The resulting loaves are flavorful and rise higher than they would without hydration.I also use this mill to grind kamut wheat for homemade pasta. I add water after the first coarse grind, let it hydratefor a few hours, and then mix it with all purpose flour and eggs. The resulting pasta is very flavorful. We prefer itto pasta made with purchased semolina. We also like to grind rice flour for Vietnamese crepes. It is actually finerthan purchased rice flour.Supposedly, there is an optional motor that can be purchased to use with this mill. Maybe one day I'll invest in it, but for now I'mokay with grinding everything by hand.Would I purchase this again? Yes!