Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I wanted a Kitchen Aid grain mill for a year or more and I wanted to love this product. Used it yesterday with my pro series 600 watt Kitchen Aid mixer. This mill should not be used with an artisan 325 watt Kitchen Aid mixer; it was too much work for my pro! After reading all the instructions i happily set about grounding my newly arrived red fife wheat berries, non gmo, organically grown by Belle Valley Ancient Grains. It was mind numbingly slow but did turn out a beautiful, commercial grade flour. The instructions say not to grind more than 10 cups of berries at time without allowing the mixer to cool for 45 minutes, between batches. I ground six cups it took over three hours to grind, not including three 45 minute rest periods, she had to knead dough too! My mixers motor became to hot to touch, the mill, the all metal mill became to hot to touch! Seriously had to use pot holders to detach the mill. During the process I shut the mixer down and cooled for 45 minutes after just two cups of again mind numbingly slow grinding. I wanted 12 cups of flour to make six loaves of bread. (Froze five 'loaves' of dough for a constant supply of freshly baked bread.) I settled for six cups of flour and supplemented with store bought. This mill while beautifully built, solid all metal, open the box and make your heart pound with joy and anticipation; disappoints. More importantly I believe it is too much work for the motor. I'm afraid to use it again. I love my mixer to much to threaten it's lifespan for six cups of flour. While the flour was grinding I set about making a tanzhong bread rue; in the short time, thirty minutes that the rue took, the grain mill overheated my mixer. I began to smell the motor burning! Shocked because i read the instructions which stated grind no more than 10 cups and i was just into two cups, I touched my mixer, HOT and then the mill Hot! I unplugged and took the grain mill apart with oven mitts on. I thought there must be a blockage, something must be wrong to overheat my mixer like that. Nothing. I used the mill according to the manufacturer's exact instructions and even with the pro series mixer, milling grain is to hard on the motor. I pushed my mixer, cooling for 45 minutes in between grinding two cup batches of the red fife wheat berries. I ground the six cups of flour. It took all day, seven hours to turn out just the bread dough, before the rise. The mixer is my back bone, she made two, three loaf batches of bread yesterday. Turned out beautifully, fine ground flour but way to much work for even the 600 watt professional series. I have more mixer than i need in my kitchen on most days, however yesterday the grain mill threatened to kill my motor. Again, do not even consider this attachment if you don't have a pro series mixer. I think Kitchen Aid should make that point very clear. If you get this mill it would be better to grind flour one day and make whatever gives you joy the next. But sit on top of the mixer, grind in two cup batches cooling 45 minutes in between. The Kitchen Aid pasta attachment, pasta roller, meat grinder, the shredder/slicer attachment have them and love them all. I am returning the grain mill with a heavy heart. I wanted this grain mill to work!