Greetings! My first post

Hello,

Just an introduction here. I'm pretty new to making bread - mostly doing sandwich loaves at the moment.

I started out a couple months ago with store-bought whole wheat flour, but now I'm a-few-loaves-in making bread exclusively with fresh milled flour. I intend to make all of my bread with fresh milled grain for the foreseeable future. I don't intend to buy bread or flour for household use (never say never - but...) ever again. Circumstances can always change, but I don't see myself going back.

I've got a few varieties of wheat and I'd like to make some wonderful bread with them all, which is why I'm here.

The wheat berries I have on hand: Butler's Gold, Hard Red Spring, Rye, Emmer, Spelt, and I have a bunch of Kamut on the way which I am looking forward to trying.

I use a hand-crank mill, which will very soon be operated by an old Schwinn exercise bike if the bread gods see fit to let me carry out this plan. Hand milling is a lot of work, even for a one-pound loaf. I made an Ezekiel loaf yesterday, and I think it was the garbanzo beans that put up the biggest fight. Anyway, pedal power needs to happen.

The nutritional aspects of fresh milled whole wheat are very appealing to me, as well as the ability to mill things like legumes or coffee beans into my flour. I am vegan, so being able to get whole proteins from my bread by milling in some lentils is amazing.

I haven't sprouted any grains yet, but that is in my future as well.

Anyway, nice to meet you all! See you in the forums!

- Wiil