How to Make Wheat Flour From Wheat Berries

Intro: How to Make Wheat Flour From Wheat Berries

In this cooking basics Instructable, learn how to make your own wheat flour at home from wheat berries using a blender. Homemade flour is incredibly easy to make and you don't need a special mill to make it.

Although, if you do plan on grinding your own wheat at home regularly, you may want to pick up specific wheat and or grain-grinding mill.

Home-ground wheat is awesome because it doesn't contain any preservatives or additives and is healthier than normal store-bought flour. Use this flour in all your whole wheat flour baking needs.

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Follow the easy steps below or watch the really short video tutorial or do both!

STEP 1: Grind the Wheat Berries

So this couldn't be simpler.

Add the wheat berries to your blender and put the lid on. You really want a high-speed blender something like a Vitamix, Blendtec, or Nurtibullet, because cheaper blenders just aren't strong enough to blend the wheat berries up fine enough. With that said, try it first with whatever blender that you have.

Start the blender on low speed and then slowly turn it to high. Let it run for about 30 seconds on high and that is all you need to do.

Pour the flour into an airtight container for storage or use it right away. Simple right?

NOTE: Keep in mind this is whole wheat flour. If you want to make white flour like all-purpose or plain flour, you will need to sift out the germ and bran. Run the milled whole wheat flour through a sieve or sifter a few times to remove those two things. Then you will have plain all-purpose white flour.

STEP 2: Video Tutorial

Now watch those steps in action with this video tutorial.

Comments

[Izzymad]

I'm sorry to say this but. These are just wheat not berries they are grain...

[In The Kitchen With Matt]

Sorry, but you are wrong. They are called wheat berries. Yes, they are grain, but that doesn't change the fact that they are called wheat berries. Read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_berry Wheat is the term for the WHOLE plant. The wheat berry or wheatberry is the edible part of the plant. Here they are being sold on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/1000-Springs-Mill-Sprouting-Resealable/dp/B08FRRD15H/

[GDC]

Nice instructable! I have on small issue with the title though. At the risk of being pendantic, you are not making wheat, you are making wheat flour. You caught this error in the text, but not in the title. Otherwise, very good info..

[In The Kitchen With Matt]

Thanks and yes that was an error it should have said wheat flour! Good catch!

[joen]

I use a different blender but the same process. I always wondered why home ground whole wheat flour tasted better than store bought whole wheat flour until I learned that the wheat germ is removed so that the fat in the wheat germ doesn't go bad thus extending the shelf life of the flour. I won't buy grocery store not so whole wheat flour again if I can help it. Thanks for posting this.

[In The Kitchen With Matt]

Awesome!! Yes, home ground is so much better. Then if you want white, just sift out the wheat germ and bran, leaving just the ground endosperm. And it is so much healthier, with no preservatives, etc.