KitchenAid KGM All Metal Grain Mill Attachment for KitchenAid Stand Mixers

I would have given it a 5 star review but for a few issues with my old Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer. I worried since the mixer was so old it might not be compatable but it was! This was one of the reasons I was hesitant to order a mill for the kitchen aid but decided to give it a try. This worked well on my older model Kitchen Aid mixer. The weight of it was so heavy that it kind of sagged toward where the grinder was. I had to take off the bowl from the stand because the grain would wind up in front of it but it did not leave enough space below the older mixer design to place the bowl in front of it to catch the grain as it came through. I had to steady the mixer base while it ground the grains. I was happy that it worked and the fine grain seems good for baking. I have not had time to bake yet. I used a 24 oz bag of Kamut whole grain wheat to try it out. I fed the grinder in segments of about 2 cups at a time. It took a long time to get through the bag. It seemed a little louder than the normal mixer alone. It does not allow you to wash it in water. There was no smell to the actual grinder but the grain smelled very good that it produced. I know other people with Kitchen Aid Mixers and noticed theres had a different design than mine. I have a base that the metal bowl locks into.Thus, your experience may not be the same as mine. Again, I would give it 5 stars but for a few issues lining up an bowl to catch the grain and the weight of the grinder. I think it is a great value because of the quality of the grain it produces. I tried different levels too. I it has 12 levels of grain. Each level is different. It was very easy to set up and use.

IMO, this is a great starter mill for someone who has never milled before and wants to try it out, who also happens to own a kitchenaide mixer. Pros: Affordable compared to stand alone mill. Small and easy to tuck away. Absolutely does the job and allows me to have fresh milled flour for all my baking needs. Cons: It is slow in comparison to a stand alone unit. It is LOUD. If you have sensory sensitive people in your home, just be aware. My kids have gotten used to it, but this guy is not discreet. Running the mill on your kitchenaide WILL heat up the gears on the mixer during the run. In a former life, I was a lab tech and keeping machines running and processes moving smoothly was my mission. So here are solutions for the cons: It’s slow = prepare for it, set aside approximately 10-30 min depending on how much you are milling. It’s loud = my kids have noise canceling headphones, I just tell them I have to mill and give them the option to wear them or not. I do not mill when they are in the middle of things they are interested in. Heating up = be aware of how long you are running it and do not walk away from the machine while it is running. I run the mill early in the day (it’s hot here in the south) and I have an ice pack I lay on the mixer to help keep it cool while it runs. While I was a tech, our labs were kept obscenely cold for the purpose of ensuring the machines didn’t over heat. And for safety reasons, we never left them unattended and running. I do nothing else while I mill. In summary, it’s a great little mill that will get you into milling on a budget. Be aware of its limitations, be aware and take proper safety cautions so it doesn’t overheat, and enjoy milling.

I recently purchased the KitchenAid All Metal Grain Grinder, and it’s been a fantastic addition to my kitchen. If you already own a KitchenAid stand mixer, this attachment is a must-have for anyone serious about making their own flour or grinding grains at home. The build quality is excellent—it’s made entirely of metal, so it feels incredibly sturdy and durable. I’ve used it to grind wheat, oats, and even corn, and it handles each task without any issues. The adjustable grind settings are a big plus, allowing you to customize the coarseness from cracked grains to ultra-fine flour, depending on your needs. I love the ability to grind fresh flour for my baking. There’s something really satisfying about knowing exactly what’s going into your bread or muffins, and the flavor is noticeably fresher compared to store-bought flour. It’s also great for experimenting with different grains and blends. Installation is easy, and cleanup is straightforward as well. For anyone who wants more control over their ingredients and enjoys baking or cooking with fresh grains, this is a great investment. Highly recommend it for home bakers and anyone looking to step up their kitchen game!

I have had the mill almost a year now and wanted to give my opinion. Figure with a year of use I would know enough about it to provide a decent assessment for others looking into it. First and foremost, I do not believe this would be a good flour mill for bread/ pastries. However I knew this going in as that is not why I wanted it. I wanted something that was easier to crack grains or provide a course meal and for this use, it is a great mill. As others have pointed out it is slow, it is slower the more fine you have the adjustment. Even on the finest settings I would not want to make bread with it unless your goal is cornbread, then it works. I have a few other mills from a motorized Country Living that I purchased in 2007 and use ALL THE TIME, a Komo Classic (in beautiful dark Walnut vs the standard beech), and a wondermill Jr. I use the Country living and or the Komo for bread/ fine flours often. However the Country Living sucks to swap out for the corn/ bean auger more so when it is motorized. Thus when the kitchenaid went on sale for under $100 I bought it. I often crack dent corn or popcorn in it before running through other mills. I also use it for making bulgur for salads and several other course grain uses. But my favorite is what I used it for this morning. Hot breakfast cereal. I course crack the dent corn on the max setting. Then run the corn and everything else again at 2 settings finer than the middle setting (guess you would call it 8 out of 12 closer to the finest setting if that makes sense) to get what you see here. My favorite cereal blend is 0.5C each of dent corn, hulled barley, brown rice and Kamut. I cook 1C of this blend with 4C water a nice pinch of redmond salt, and a few tablespoons of coconut oil in my Le Creuset rice cooker (without the bubble plate). Bring it to a boil, stir (I use a wooden chopstick) cover and turn to the lowest your burner will go for 20 minutes. Top with whatever. Everyone in the family likes something different for toppings, honey/ maple syrup/ muddy pond, various spices, dried fruit, milk, nuts etc. I like mine with freeze dried apple dices, apple pie spice blend, and a drizzle of muddy pond sorghum syrup, which is what you see in my photo. And let me tell you, DANG is it great tasting, warms you up, makes the place smell amazing, and it will keep you full for a while even with moderate energy being burned doing what ever task like shoveling snow or whatever. The mill is easy to break down to clean when needed, I just store mine in a 2G gallon freezer bag and clean it every season, otherwise I just open the plates to the coarsest setting and shake whatever is remaining in the garbage, and wipe with a dry towel after each use. But once a season I tear it all the way down and clean it well and hit the grinder shaft end with a smear of food safe grease in the adjustment knob mating socket. You will see this the first time you tear it down from the factory.

This attachment has steel on steel mill plates, with a decent hopper size, a bit over a cup. It will grind, but not super finely. One cup of corn will produce about one and a half cups of meal. With the addition of a half cup of dehydrated potato flakes plus the other usual ingredients that one and a half cups will produce a pan of gluten free cornbread. However to get the fineness needed for decent cornbread even with the potato flake cheat, one has to first grind the corn then regrind the coarser meal produced on the first pass. Expect the same two passes to grind decent rice flour. The second pass for wheat flour is easier than for rice. The rice semi-ground ground flour tends to stick together more above the feed screw, expect to stop numerous times to shake it down. But the wheat shakes down more easily. That second pass is what makes grinding with it less than perfect. On the positive side this attachment doesn't take up so much counter space nor sound similar to a jet engine like a full sized electric mill. And it isn't as tiring to use as a hand mill. The best hand mill I've ever seen, the gold standard of home mills, was the Corona King convertible mill, which was a star of the old Whole Earth Catalog fifty plus years ago. I see that Amazon sells Corona mills, but my five minute look-see at them didn't reveal any with the conversion plates for stone grinding, necessary for fine corn flour. So I’ll stick with this one. Edited 1/11/2025 for clarification, word choice and to increase rating from 4 to 5 stars.

I had this attachment for about 2 months, and I started hearing grinding noises coming from my KitchenAid mixer. So I instead bought a Nutrimill and have been much happier. Pros: MOSTLY easy to disassemble to clean. It being all metal, I wasn’t concerned about plastic leaching. It did a great job with the courser settings, and it was easy to assemble to the mixer and easy to use. Cons: Get ready. The hopper has a grate over it, which makes it hard to pour grain into because it keeps spilling out. It’s very heavy, and my Professional 5-qt, 450 W motor began overheating around the 20 minute mark. I put cold packs on the mixer to keep it cool, but after a few weeks of use, I started to hear grinding noises coming from my mixer. It’s not good at a fine grind, so I tried milling my wheat twice and sifting out the bran and germ to add in later. It was laborious, and every time I wanted to mill, I knew it would take 45 minutes of double-milling and sifting to turn out 3-4 cups of flour. When I milled, I had to prepare cold packs for my mixer to keep the motor cooled, but there’s no way to cool the attachment, and it gets HOT to the touch, so the flour began getting gummy and sticky too. This mill is ok for the inconsistent, infrequent mill operators who want course grinds, but it’s VERY hard on your mixer, and I cannot recommend this attachment at all. Don’t waste your money. Buy a stand-alone mill.

If you want to try your hand at freshly milled recipes but not ready to invest in more expensive mills start here. It is solid and gets the job done. It takes about 10 minutes to grind 4 cups of hard white wheat berries on the finest setting which i have used for sourdough loaves. It does take a little time but i just turn it on and walk away.

This worked better than the off brand one, and did get the grain fine enough to make bread, but on the finest setting it took forever... like 20-30 minutes to grain a full load. Since I make a few loaves of bread at once so I don't have to bake as often, it took me a full day to grain enough for my loaves. Just not realistic for me so I ended up returning. Will just have to invest in a regular one. If you only bake one loaf at a time this could work for you. Also very messy. The bowel doesn't fit in the best place so grain is getting outside the bowl.

La uso para moler trigo y hacer pan con masa madre y la masa madre esta mejor que nunca alimentándola con el trigo recién molido. Al pan le puedes poner un poco de esta harína y fermenta mejor que con harian de fuerza o integral. El sabor que da el trigo recién molido es único y estoy muy contento con la compra. No es la harina mas fina comparado con un molino de piedra por ejemplo pero por el precio este es muy buena opción y no es muy grande.

Very good product, build quality excellent and no issue with performance as described in few reviews.Not making much noise .flour thickness can be adjusted as per requirement. Simple to clean.

I had a Wisper Mill actually 2, and these went 28 years. They did not whisper, they screamed. But they were very effective. so now I have this new Kitchen Aid Wheat grinder. You have to watch that you have it far enough over in the selection to get fine wheat, but you can play with it, and put the wheat back through. Yes, it is a little slower than the Whisper Mill, but the product of the grinding is capable of being sifted to remove the bran for separate usage from the whole wheat. Actually comparatively, this is much quieter but you do need to put a platform under the bowl that catches the wheat. You do need a platform for most attachments. Overall, there was much less dust in my kitchen environment from this machine than past ones. And with this, you don't need a separate machine.

Very useful to mill emmer wheat. Small enough to keep the counter clean.

Mi idea era pulverizar condimentos. No se alcanza a obtener condimentos en polvo, sólo alcanza a triturar a un tamaño, que para el café no es problema.