Bob's Red Mill Almond Meal/Flour, 16-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4)

by Bob's Red Mill

Product Features

• Case of four 16-ounce packages (64 total ounces)
• Made from 100% all-natural blanched almonds
• An excellent source of Vitamin E, protein, and magnesium
• Gives baked goods and sweets a rich flavor and moist texture
• Packaged in Milwaukie, Oregon

Product Description

About the Brand

Bob Moore's secret to life may just be "work hard and keep it simple." Living this philosophy, Bob literally puts his nose to the grindstone every day. Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods is an Oregon-based company that utilizes simple, old-world technology to mill hundreds of all-natural whole grain products.

Bob's Red Mill is dedicated to the manufacturing of natural foods in the natural way. In their own words: "With all the sophisticated knowledge of recent times, no machinery has yet been developed that grinds grains into flour quite as well as our flint-hard quartz millstones quarried in France and used by discriminating millers since early Roman times."

"Our well-dressed (sharpened) sets of millstones turn the highest quality wheat into a finer, better baking bread flour than all the hammer mills, steel roller mills, steel buhr mills, or pulverizers ever built! These slow turning millstones grind the bran, endosperm, and germ (containing its nutritious wheat germ oil) into flour in a cool natural way, creating a more assimilable food."

Bob's Red Mill stone grinds all common and most uncommon grains into flours and meals on its over 100-year-old mills. They mix them into an astounding array of unique cereals, pancake and waffle mixes, machine and hand-made bread mixes, quick bread mixes, gluten-free mixes, and specialty grain products.

Product Description

From blanched whole almonds. Almonds Meal/Flour is simply skinless, blanched almonds that have been finely ground. It lends a moist texture and rich, buttery flavor to cakes, cookies, muffins, sweet breads and a host of other desserts, especially the classic French frangipane. It is also superb as a breading for meats and vegetables. Almond Meal/Flour is low in carbohydrates and a good source of protein, fiber, Vitamin E, and magnesium. All natural. Bob's Red Mill products labeled gluten free are batch tested in our quality control laboratory. We use an Elisa Gluten Assay test to determine if a product is gluten free.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EDG598
• UPC: 039978013811
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)
  • #2 in Grocery & Gourmet Food > Cooking & Baking Supplies > Flours & Meals

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great product -- use it to make wheat-free flour substitute!, September 14, 2006

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Char P. "Char" (Stevensville, MT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bob's Red Mill Almond Meal/Flour, 16-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4) (Grocery)

I can't eat any kind of wheat flour, but since I discovered Almond Meal (Bob's Red Mill), my diet is much easier to live with. I use 4 parts almond meal with 4 parts garbanzo (bean) flour and 1 part potato starch (NOT potato flour)as a substitute for regular flour. I've made brownies, peanut butter cookies, banana bread, and carrot cookies and found the texture and taste are not noticeably different than the original recipe, at least to me.

59 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Gluten Free and SCD, yes, but NOT My Top Pick, October 22, 2008

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Chef Stacy "Gluten Free and Allergy Friendly ... (Manhattan) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bob's Red Mill Almond Meal/Flour, 16-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4) (Grocery)

While these arrived fresh, freshness isn't the only hallmark of a quality product. You can get the same results with a good food processor (i.e. a Kitchen Aid). This is NOT a fine, even grind. If I sift the product, I find a lot of chunks. I want a fine EVEN grind when using nut meal/flour (the terms are used interchangeably in the industry) as the main or only flour in my baked goods.

Since this brand is easy to find in many supermarkets, I do recommend it for some uses. It's good for folks who don't do mail order, those non-GF cooks looking to lower the carb count of their bread coatings, and those looking for an easy GF or a no-carb "breading" option, but only when a coarse coating is suitable. For instance I like fine coatings if I'm going to "pan fry" a white/light flesh fish fillet.

When used as the main or only flour for baking, the batter will look lumpy and the finished product will taste a bit gritty. It won't perform well in some recipes because the chunkier nature of the grind will affect the way the batter handles moisture, which could result in a dense rather than light texture. It could also yield products that fall severely upon cooling.

In order words, disappointing outcomes might not be the recipe or your culinary technique, it could be your choice in ingredients!

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fry that chicken!, June 2, 2006

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Jirka "Two Little Chicks" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bob's Red Mill Almond Meal/Flour, 16-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4) (Grocery)

This is wonderful on chicken! I use this product to fry chicken in and it brings a whole new meaning to fried chicken! Just use the flour as you would any other and then pan fry. Delicious!