I finally figured out how to make all purpose flour at home from your own home ground flour (whole grain) without tedious sifting for hours and hours. Timestamp for those of you in a hurry - the magic starts at 4:19.
Seriously this is the best thing I have come up with all year. I don’t even know if this would be better called “how to bolt flour” because bolting flour was traditionally what it was called when you sift out bran from whole grain flour. As opposed to sifting flour for a particular recipe which is NOT what we’re doing here.
And because power tools are fun 🙂 This DIY flour sifter is the most efficient way I’ve come up with to sift large amounts of home-ground flour to make “white” flour that is suitable for finer things like white breads, cookies, etc. It’s a massive time saver for anyone who bakes large amounts of breads or anything with their own homeground flour but would like a “white” flour without spending hours and hours sifting
Back massager sifter video by Dan Ayo: • Sifting Bread Flour wi... (I didn't go this route because these big back massagers are $$$)
Here’s what I used (Aff. links when applicable). Note - the sifters can vary in price but at the time I made this video you can pick them both up together for under $40:
20 mesh sifter - amzn.to/37hZDcg
60 mesh sifter - amzn.to/30GSrFF
60 mesh sifter I’d buy in hindsight (larger) - amzn.to/3cOJNHu
Black & Decker Battery Reciprocating Saw - amzn.to/2Yoabmb (don’t forget the battery)
For blades - any old reciprocating saw blades will do - this is a good use for old dull blades.
Mockmill 100 - mockmill.us/product/mockmill-...
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