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Making Peanut Butter with our GrainMaker Mill!

This is our first attempt at making peanut butter with the Grain Mill!  We ordered six pounds of nuts from freshroastedalmondco.com.  Organic unsalted peanuts were $4.86/pound.  

There are two separate augers for the grain mill.  The Coil Auger (on the left) is for small grains such as wheat, barley, and rice.  The GrainBreaker Auger (on the right) is for grinding corn, legumes, coffee beans, dehydrated foods, and nuts. For peanut butter we used the GrainBreaker Auger.

We were a bit apprehensive about using the grain mill for making nut butter because it seemed like a messy job.  Here is what the grinding disks (aka Burrs) looked like after grinding six pounds of peanuts. 

To clean the burrs, you simply grind some wheat berries.  It sounded too good to be true, but this is what the burrs looked like after grinding a half cup of flour.  (click picture to enlarge).  Voila!  The mill is clean and ready to go. We used the "peanut cleaning flour" in our favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe.  Grinding peanut butter was super simple and something we will definitely do again!





2 comments :

Phoebe April 27, 2015 at 12:26 PM  

Buck and I were just discussing the possibility of making our own almond butter the other day!
We don't have the space yet for a grain mill but it is on our list for sure. It's good to know that it is so easy.
Smart idea to use the peanut flavored flour for cookies, I bet they were delicious.

Rebecca C. March 25, 2022 at 7:21 PM  

This is the exact information I was looking for! Thanks for posting!

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