Make flour
How much grain for the flour you want
Whole-grain milling is nearly 1:1 by weight. Sifting changes the yield. Protein is a percentage of the flour — want more, add vital wheat gluten, or mill a stronger berry. Protein & calorie sources →
Miller’s desk
Grain to flour
Vital wheat gluten booster
Most bags of vital wheat gluten are 75–80% protein. The booster is added on top of the flour, not swapped in.
Whole-grain flour · No gluten
- Whole grain needed
- 521 g
- Flour you’ll get
- 500 g
- Bran left behind
- 0 g
- Protein in that flour
- 45 g · 9%
- Natural gluten
- 0%
- Add VWG
- 32.3 g
- After VWG
- 13% protein · 4.4% gluten
About 3 cups of berries → 4.2 cups of whole-grain flour. Whole-grain milling is essentially 1:1 by weight; sifting is where you lose bran.
How to mill it
Already often sold pre-hulled and sand-fine. Taste before you mill.
Spice mill or blender. Too fine for many hopper mills.
Tempering: No.
Everything the berry holds — bran, germ, and endosperm. Mill 1:1 by weight. Use within days, or freeze.
Milling 101 →Next: bake it
Pick a loaf for this flour
13% protein after VWG · Fonio whole-grain flour. Sandwich loaf, focaccia, sourdough — the kitchen will scale dough, hydration, and times to this mix.
