As some of you may know, some people make oat flour through using a blender and oats.
However, I would like to have a more fine oat flour, as this current method, the oat flour produced (mixed with protein powder.. for taste), produces a sludge.
I have been able to sift (like flour) out a very small portion of fine oat flour, but this takes a VERY long time, hence are looking at other options to increase the efficiency of this process.
Has anyone used a coffee grinder/spice grinder for this purpose and able to comment about this method of using a coffee grinder/spice grinder to turn oats into oat flour?
Also, any brand recommendations?
Thanks, my fellow OzB members :)
Coffee Grinder for Oats?
cwongtech on 14/12/2013 - 23:00
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We're talking about large quantities, not a bowl of oats..
Blender and sieve is slow enough, don't need any slower..
I use a coffee/spice grinder to make rice flour from uncooked rice, works really well and makes a fine powder. Krups brand.
have you tried oat bran? it contains good things for you than oats. it also forms a soft gooey mess when soaked with liquid. i have a small bowl every morning. mmmmm
Interesting…I have a coffee grinder attachment for a Kenwood (actually…have every single attachment available for a Kenwood…all 20+ something of them). Might try this.
Actually a mortar and pestle is a lot faster than you'd think. Well, with most things anyway (not sure about oats). They're only $15 or so when Aldi have them on sale (and it's one of the few products I've actually bought from Aldi which I usually don't), so maybe still worth a try.
If you're set on using a coffee grinder, there's a certain Sunbeam model that coffee drinkers modify to bring the burrs really close together. There used to be a series of photos online showing how to modify it. Do a web search for the words "modify sunbeam to grind expresso" and it will probably pop up. Then you'll have the model number.
However people that grind their own expresso say it is still too inconsistent with particle size. Not sure if that would be a bad thing for flour. But why not just get a proper grain mill? There's suvivalist sites reviewing the many different types. Here's one mill that I recall: http://www.retsel.com.au/html/lil-ark.html/. You can motorise many of them too. You could buy their motor kits and do it cheap by adding a pulley from Bunnings and a wiper motor from a car, maybe.
Actually a mortar and pestle is a lot faster than you'd think. Well, with most things anyway (not sure about oats). They're only $15 or so when Aldi have them on sale
About $9 or $10 everyday at Kmart for a granite one about the same size.
Yeah, we've looked at the Kmart ones. Many had a large "lump" dead centre, bad scratches on the outside polished surface, fault lines in the pestle (where it's not a single piece of rock causing them to crack in half later on), and lots of deep chunks missing inside which would cause foods/spices to get stuck instead of being ground up. Admittedly it could just be the one store I went to though.
Even at Aldi we had to go through 20+ boxes to mix 'n match pestles to get 'perfect' sets. (We bought 3 for wedding presents.) But the good thing about Aldi is, they had 50+ of them to do the swap.
I've always wondered the difference between the Home Brand oats and Uncle Toby's Oats…the Home Brand version is around $1 a packet…Uncle Toby's around $5 to $6 a box…ingredients in both…Oats 100%.
Is the difference really only just the grind quality?
I note that the Uncle Toby's Oats are creamier than the Home Brand…therefore nicer to eat…but not $4 to $5 worth of nicer!they probably have a bit more flavour, but i really couldn't tell the difference.
Is the difference really only just the grind quality?
I note that the Uncle Toby's Oats are creamier than the Home Brand…therefore nicer to eat…but not $4 to $5 worth of nicer!Well for Aldi Oats (GoldenVale brand I think) and Uncle Toby's oats.
There is a HUGE difference in mix-ability after blending with the same blender.
At the moment I'm using Quakers Oats from Costco, that's alright, Uncle Tobys was a bit better though I think, but a LOT more expensiveUT probably use better/frequently serviced machinery to grind them up. But consistency is the only difference we can tell. We prefer stuff not be so processed though. 99 cents a kg makes up for any difference anyway (to us).
How about a mortar and pestle?