bread phase five...grind

i received a japanese made grain mill for christmas and now that the excitement of the holidays has died down it seemed a good time to turn the wheat and rye i have been storing into flour...

three hundred grams maximum ( and i have found that using less is inadvisable since the mill seems to need that amount to work effectively...timing is an issue as well...we will get to that ) is the prescribed amount per batch so that's what i used...

in with the three hundred grams...put the lid on ( a facet i seem to have neglected to photograph )...turn the mill on for thirty seconds...and you have some warm flour...or that is what i thought...

when i sifted the flour i discovered there were more than just a few unmilled wheat "berries"...so i refilled the mill and let it run for a full minute rather than just half...that did resolve the issue...there were no more berries when i sifted the flour again...it did come out quite a bit warmer though...actually hot is more accurate and i am left thinking it would be a simple matter to actually burn some flour if the mill runs too long...

my backyard crop yielded almost five and a half pounds of whole wheat flour...

which is now on the counter top in a container acquired for that purpose...

a small container of rye yielded three cups or so of rye flour...i am perusing bread recipes and have more rye to mill if necessary...actual "bread from scratch" is the next step...if things work out it will be in the next day or two