KitchenAid GMA Grain Mill Attachment for Stand Mixers

by KitchenAid

Product Features

• Grain mill attachment greatly expands a stand mixer's flexiblity
• Ideal for making your own flour from low-moisture, non-oily grains
• Includes brush for cleaning, tips, and recipes
• Can make up to 10 cups at a time
• Grain mill can be used with any KitchenAid stand mixer

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3 x 6 x 8 inches ; 4.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004SGFL
• Item model number: GMA
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,810 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Cooking from scratch is made easier with a stand mixer, and made all the more literal with this grain mill attachment. Use it to make flour out of wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, buckwheat, barley, and millet--any low-moisture, non-oily grain (peanuts and coffee are a no-no with this tool). Make up to 10 cups at a time. The mill is sturdy, heavy, and easy to assemble and attach to the mixer's hub. Adjust the knob to the desired grind, fill the unit with grains, and crank it up to 10. When you're through, brush it clean with the small brush included in the kit. If you need to, wash it by hand, but don't put it in the dishwasher. --Betsy Danheim

Product Description

Get the most fiber and protein for your homemade multi-grain and wheat breads, cereals or tortillas. Grind your own using this Grain Mill attachment with your KitchenAid stand mixer. Use with low-moisture grains, such as wheat, corn, rice and select the desired consistency - fine to coarse. Stainless steel attachment safely secures to front of mixer and detaches easily for convenient storage. Refrigerate ground grains for lasting freshness..

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

414 of 429 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother with this, buy a real wheat grinder...., February 18, 2005

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Joel R. Helgeson "JRHelgeson" (St. Paul, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: KitchenAid GMA Grain Mill Attachment for Stand Mixers (Kitchen)

This attachment reveals a design flaw in the Kitchenaid Mixer design. Inside every Kitchenaid Mixer you have a transmission/gearbox that drive both the mixer and the accessory drive shaft. This gearbox has a PLASTIC cover that holds all the gears in place.

The grain mill attachment places the *most* stress on your kitchenaid, more than any other attachment you can buy. What happens is when you're grinding wheat, it heats up that gearbox and the plastic cover starts to flex, and if you run it more than 10 minutes it'll heat up enough to break the plastic.

I bought this attachement for my wife for Christmas 2004. It broke the transmission and stripped the gears on the mixer in January. We removed the cover and saw the cracked plastic. Kitchenaid promptly sent a replacement mixer even though ours was "out of warranty". This tells me that they KNOW about their design flaw.

We got our shiny new Kitchenaid Mixer the next week. My wife took it out of the box, attached the grain mill and started it grinding flour. Within 10 minutes the plastic cover failed on the new one. Kitchenaid sent out a new one, again. We're now on our third mixer and we're looking to get a refund from Kitchenaid for the Grain Mill so we can go out and buy a real wheat grinder.

It's really sad. All Kitchenaid needs to do is put a metal gearbox cover on the transmission and you could grind wheat into flour non-stop. I can't believe that they're willing to stake their good name on a plastic part!

166 of 169 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Does GREAT if....., January 13, 2001

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A Paul (Idaho United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: KitchenAid GMA Grain Mill Attachment for Stand Mixers (Kitchen)

This product does a great job...what the manufacturer fails to tell you that your local distributor probably would, mine did, is that you need to first run the wheat through on a really course setting. Then run it through on a finer setting. I actually take the time to run it through 3 times. It doesn't take that much longer, and its worth the time. I have found if I do this, my machine doesn't have to work as hard.

This is a great an "cheaper" way of getting a wheat grinder. ;o )

99 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth the price ?, November 18, 2002

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Maureen Ogorman "leneker" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: KitchenAid GMA Grain Mill Attachment for Stand Mixers (Kitchen)

Generally I've been satisfied with all Kitchen Aid attachments, but this one is a little different. For the price I could buy myself a stand alone grain mill with more features and save the load on my beloved workhorse.