Wooly totally missed several points and wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:18:19 -0600, Mike Avery
> spewed forth :
>
><much snippage>
>
>You asked for flour sources, I recommended a mill. You threw up
>objections, I countered by relating my experience with my mill.
>
>
As you later realized, I didn't ask for flour sources.

>You needn't get huffy, and you needn't feel as if I was teaching you
>to suck eggs since you never did mention that you have mills but are
>tired of doing the work yourself.
>
I didn't get huffy. I still haven't gotten huffy. Despite your
condescending BS attitude.

No, I didn't get tired of the work. I got tired of the inferior results
that were only salvagable by adding things to bread I'd rather not add
to bread.

And my comments were made so the OP would realize that grinding your own
wheat adds another layer of complexity to the bread making process, and
that the outcomes are not as wonderful as people who sell mills would
like you to believe.

I talked to a "Great Harvest" owner a while back. The two hardest
things in his life are staffing and grinding wheat. And they do it all
the time. They claim they grind all their own flour.

If its worth it to you, cool. I'm happy for you.

My experience was, inconsistent results, lower quality results over
all. I don't recommend it if your goal is better bread.

If your goal is mystical re-connection to the earth, a quest for better
nutrition, religous reawakening, other health issues, or whatever, then
it might be worth it.

Mike