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Make Your Own Rice Flour!

TearzaRose

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TearzaRose Explorer
TearzaRose
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I've always been discouraged by the price of "specialty" food items, especially gluten free flours.

Well, laying in bed this morning I thought, "I wonder if I could make my own rice flour."

Hmmmm...

So, I got up and lo and behold,yes I can. And you can too! For a FRACTION of the price!!!

I just took some cheap brown rice, threw it into my coffee/spice grinder and ground it into a fine powder.

If you need/want it finer, just sift it through a sieve or cheesecloth.

Yay!!! No more expensive rice flour for me! :)

I love frugality. :D

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Pandy Newbie
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I've always been discouraged by the price of "specialty" food items, especially gluten free flours.

Well, laying in bed this morning I thought, "I wonder if I could make my own rice flour."

Hmmmm...

So, I got up and lo and behold,yes I can. And you can too! For a FRACTION of the price!!!

I just took some cheap brown rice, threw it into my coffee/spice grinder and ground it into a fine powder.

If you need/want it finer, just sift it through a sieve or cheesecloth.

Yay!!! No more expensive rice flour for me! :)

I love frugality. :D

I have done this, but I also found a 20 lb bag of rice flour in an Asian Food store for only 20 dollars. They have a lot of Rice products and are not too expensive.

hugs.. Pandy

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Aroostook
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Buying in Asian store, I worry about cross contamination. Packages I have read in there state possible wheat. I mill my own flour, and it really doesn't take all that much work.

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BRS-07
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What does it mean to mill your own flour? I have been looking for a way to make flour less expensive.

purple Community Regular
purple
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I have tried nuts and flax in the coffee grinder. I use little rice flour but I will try it. Thanks for letting us know it works. With almonds, I ran them through a nut chopper first. I don't have all the machines...just the basics- blender, crock pot, hand held mixer, nut/onion chopper, coffee grinder...so its nice to hear other ways work well. Thanks for posting!

Pandy Newbie
Pandy
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Buying in Asian store, I worry about cross contamination. Packages I have read in there state possible wheat. I mill my own flour, and it really doesn't take all that much work.

I had not thought of the cross contamination. but I have not had any problem with the flour and have used it for a long time now. I don't bake enough, a 20 lb bag is lasting me forever.

Thanks for that input though. I do need to watch and be careful. I ate peanut butter one time that had wheat. And chicken broth in a can. I was so shocked. Now I read ALL labels.

The products are too extremely expensive on the shelves, like was mentioned. I wind up eating meat, rice, veggies and potatoes mainly and I don't worry much about breads anymore. Just don't eat cakes, cookies breads, etc. After a year, I don't miss them all so much anymore.

Pandy Newbie
Pandy
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What does it mean to mill your own flour? I have been looking for a way to make flour less expensive.

Milling would be grinding your own rice to make flour, like Tearzarose did with her coffee grinder. I had a coffee grinder, but the first time i did the rice, I put too much in and burned the motor out. I need to buy another and just be more careful with it. A simple 12 dollar one from a dept store works fine.

I have a huge grinder that screws on a shelf, but its so dang heavy, I never use it. I would love a good electric one. I watch Ebay, but I'm on fixed income so I don't really have money for something that is more than a coffee grinder.

hugs.. Pandy

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Thanks :D Guess I'll be buying a coffee grinder here soon and testing it out.

TearzaRose Explorer
TearzaRose
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You can also make your own oat flour this way.....provided of course they are gluten free or you can tolerate oats anyway :)

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I went to the store last night and bought a coffee grinder and it worked awesome for making rice flour. I got to looking online and saw that kitchenaid makes an attachment mill for their mixers, and then found actual kitchen mills/grinders for wet and dry grains (so i could make soy flour too). Does anyone have experience with either of these? I was looking into the attachment for my mixer but was afraid it would be alot of wear and tear on my mixer, and I know nothing of brand names or what to look for in other types of products. Opinions????

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