I have had the mill almost a year now and wanted to give my opinion. Figure with a year of use I would know enough about it to provide a decent assessment for others looking into it. First and foremost, I do not believe this would be a good flour mill for bread/ pastries. However I knew this going in as that is not why I wanted it. I wanted something that was easier to crack grains or provide a course meal and for this use, it is a great mill. As others have pointed out it is slow, it is slower the more fine you have the adjustment. Even on the finest settings I would not want to make bread with it unless your goal is cornbread, then it works. I have a few other mills from a motorized Country Living that I purchased in 2007 and use ALL THE TIME, a Komo Classic (in beautiful dark Walnut vs the standard beech), and a wondermill Jr. I use the Country living and or the Komo for bread/ fine flours often. However the Country Living sucks to swap out for the corn/ bean auger more so when it is motorized. Thus when the kitchenaid went on sale for under $100 I bought it. I often crack dent corn or popcorn in it before running through other mills. I also use it for making bulgur for salads and several other course grain uses. But my favorite is what I used it for this morning. Hot breakfast cereal. I course crack the dent corn on the max setting. Then run the corn and everything else again at 2 settings finer than the middle setting (guess you would call it 8 out of 12 closer to the finest setting if that makes sense) to get what you see here. My favorite cereal blend is 0.5C each of dent corn, hulled barley, brown rice and Kamut. I cook 1C of this blend with 4C water a nice pinch of redmond salt, and a few tablespoons of coconut oil in my Le Creuset rice cooker (without the bubble plate). Bring it to a boil, stir (I use a wooden chopstick) cover and turn to the lowest your burner will go for 20 minutes. Top with whatever. Everyone in the family likes something different for toppings, honey/ maple syrup/ muddy pond, various spices, dried fruit, milk, nuts etc. I like mine with freeze dried apple dices, apple pie spice blend, and a drizzle of muddy pond sorghum syrup, which is what you see in my photo. And let me tell you, DANG is it great tasting, warms you up, makes the place smell amazing, and it will keep you full for a while even with moderate energy being burned doing what ever task like shoveling snow or whatever. The mill is easy to break down to clean when needed, I just store mine in a 2G gallon freezer bag and clean it every season, otherwise I just open the plates to the coarsest setting and shake whatever is remaining in the garbage, and wipe with a dry towel after each use. But once a season I tear it all the way down and clean it well and hit the grinder shaft end with a smear of food safe grease in the adjustment knob mating socket. You will see this the first time you tear it down from the factory.
