Stone Ground Whole Grain Products
"The Old Fashioned Way"

Are you sure your 100% stone ground wheat flour is what it says it is?

At one time all stone ground whole wheat flour was ground on large, slow-turning stone mills. The unique flour produced by these mills is rightfully called 100% stone ground.    

Just think, every time you eat a hearty bowl of whole grain cereal from Bob's Red Mill, you're eating just like the Romans did centuries ago.

We use and believe in stone milling because no machinery has yet been developed that grinds grains into flours, cereals, and meals quite as well as the flint-hard quartz stones used by master millers since early Roman times.

At Bob's Red Mill, our huge, slow turning, 100-year-old millstones naturally grind together the bran, endosperm, and germ that contains the grain's nutritious oil without overheating it. The cool stone grinding process preserves valuable nutrients which are lost in conventional high-speed, high-heat milling. Stone grinding mixes the germ, its precious oil, and finely ground bran throughout the flour, making for a more easily digested food.

We mill all common grains (and many unique grains as well) into healthy flours and meals, and blend approximately 30 unique cereals, five pancake and waffle mixes, six bread mixes, and six muffin and quick bread mixes. This broad selection includes 36 different baking flours alone. We are continually adding to this list, making our product line of natural, organic and Gluten Free whole grain foods the most varied and complete in the industry.

Over the years, the big milling companies have offered flour marked "stone ground" at a price very close to that of roller milled flour. Fact is, some mills label their flour as stone ground when in truth they only flush their wheat rapidly through a stone mill. Others mill only a small percentage by stone and then blend it with roller milled flour.

A genuine stone mill grinds slowly -- 600 to 800 pounds of fine bread flour per hour. When this slower method is coupled with the highest quality wheat, it requires a modest premium price to produce.

When Bob's Red Mill says 100% stone ground, you can be assured that we mean real stone grinding, resulting in the finest and most nutritious whole grain bread and pastry flours available. We have been producing this excellent and honest flour for many years and are confident in the integrity of our product.