How Flour Is Made At A Traditional Watermill

At Lurgashall Watermill at Weald and Downland Museum in West Sussex, flour is still made using traditional methods. When grinding, it turns at about six revolutions per minute. Each complete turn is powered by 200 gallons of water.
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How Flour Is Made At A Traditional Watermill

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None of which shows the actual giant millstone in action. What a let down.

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Bread made from these flours are heavenly

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[@jbradshaw4236]

Aged 8 I painted that mill on a school trip. Later in life became a member, proud to say I then married at the museum .. a national treasure. Can't attend the museum without buying a biscuit or two from the mill!

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Thats an amazing story! Hope you saved that painting.

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@@soapbox187 alas I was only 8 so I don't have it anymore but still vividly remember it. After the wedding we had some nice photos by the mill... If you get the chance visit the museum. A wonderful place.. atb

[@MoxieBeast]

this is really neat! and very picturesque. i would love to purchase a bag 😍

[@cawaidesne]

God bless you for keeping tradition alive!

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That place its beautiful. I'd love to have a restaurant there

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Ha my exact thought

[@solochristo65]

I looked this up because I was watching an episode of Escape to the Country with my 90+ year old parents and in that episode they showed a man that spent 14 years refurbishing a 17th century windmill and they also use it for making flour. This was great

[@watermill4854]

This is a really excellent overview of all the watermill stages in milling. Excellent

[@NutMunchy]

My school went on a Field trio in 4th grade and we got to make flour

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My class went to a cheese factory, fresh cheese is so delicious. After the cheese factory we went to a chocolate factory. I was only in second grade then, but I don't remember everything that happened. All I remember is the taste of the cheese.

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[@MarkNieuwenhuizen]

Greetings from a guide on a Dutch traditionali grain windmill called De Hoop (hope) in the western town of ‘t Zand

[@joeydr1497]

I’ve been here there building a bakery next to it so they can make bread and cookies for tourists

[@ShinKyuubi]

Very near where I live there is an old mill..the river dried up years upon years before I was born and the mill is in disrepair..I haven't been by it in years..the road it was on used to be dirt and gravel but I think they paved it in the years since I was a kid so the mill may be gone..there are a few other mills in my state but I don't know if any make flour or cornmeal..if they did I'd buy some from local markets but they keep that stuff very close to the mill if not outright in it as a specialty item..I got a local outdoor market..might have to see if there is any stone ground flour there..that would make some dang good homemade bread..

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Holy crap I didn’t know this was an insider video until I noticed the insider logo.... They have gotten so much better with their content....

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CARBS!

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DELICIOUS!!!

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Gluten!

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Thank you, very cool.

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I live in the watermill country (the Netherlands)

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now this is epic.

[@Exoclypse]

Since you have to pump the water back into the pond, you might as well save a lot of energy and use an electric motor. I know they want to show how it worked back then so I hope they only make it work during visits.

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@dev null I mean, it's not only a watermill but a museum as well, showing how it was done in ye olde days, wouldn't be very educational if they just did it with a motor.

[@Rohandutt]

then it wOuld end the motive of it which is showing the visitors how it works without electricity

[@karv9445]

If you're pumping water from the lower to the upper reservoir arent you losing energy? It would be more efficient to use the energy put into pumping to turn the wheel instead. The only benefit would be the fact that the upper reservoir serves as a battery to keep the mill running if the pump is shut off. I'm assuming the original site of the mill was along a river and the system currently in place for the sluice gates was with new materials made to look period appropriate.

[@beatar.1130]

Undershot water wheel is indeed less efficient than overshot one (when water pours down from upper reservoir) but it's just the oldest version of the vertical water wheel sooo I assume people used it until they invented better wheel

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It's history not an energy efficiency competition you dolt

[@marcpjoyner]

Very cool!

[@tastethejace]

Fascinating video. Thank you for sharing

[@thechitchanman]

Yeah, you grind that flour! Grind it good!!

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Wow, that’s so cool and amazing!

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This is beautiful 😍

[@cosmicallyderived]

I’m sorry was there any footage of the actual mill stone which all that machinery is used to power? I only saw footage of the hand mill stone. We saw flour coming out the full size one why no detailing the scale of the actual millstone. Seems like a gaping omission.

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[@abeonthehill166]

But can you solve this in less than ten minutes .....? A miller ground out 336 pound of wheat into flour . Enough to fill 128 bags ; some were 2 (Ib) and others were 7 (Ib) bags of Flour. How many 2 (Ib) bags and 7 (Ib) bags of Flour were filled ? If a 2 (Ib) bag is sold for £2 each and a 7 (Ib) is £6 each; how much were all 128 bags sold for ? If only 25% of the total selling price of the Flour was profit ( after expenses ), how much profit did the Miller have for the 336 (Ib) of Flour sold that day ? Regards.......Abe

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To fill up 128 bags with 336 lb flour. You’ll need 112 bags of 2 lb. And 16 bags of 7 lb. 112 bags of 2 lb Profit: 112 bags • £2= £224 total 224•0,25= £ 56,- profit 16 bags 7 lb Profit: 16 bags • £6 = £96,- total 96•0,25= £ 24,- profit So the total profit would be 56+24= £80,-

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Great educational video!

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I like it!

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So cool

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[@Ignisan_66]

So it's basically an electric mill with extra steps since all of the energy for grinding comes from electric water pumps which circulate the water between the two ponds. This is not how it was done for "generations" cause old watermills used natural flow of a river to power them.

[@Varunkm110]

Excellent

[@sfbluestar]

do the two pieces of grindstones touch each other? If no, how is the top piece suspended? If yes, wouldn't there be a lot of sand in the flour? And how do the grains get forced between the grindstones?

[@dhruvatri8894]

Yes, the two pieces touch each other. There is no sand in flour because grindstones are made out of very hard rock.

[@marcusaurelius652]

The do not touch each other. Educate yourself

[@masonallen3916]

When i used to live in West Virginia there was a an old mill that sat along a beautiful river. It is sad to seee how people have ruined it with graffiti and vandilism.

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I think I found what I want to do in 40 years after I retire

[@snotnosewilly99]

Same way the Romans made flour 2,000 years ago with stone mills powered by water.

[@misterfunnybones]

The issue is the grain & the time between milling and consumption. Industrialized food production creates mutant seeds, dead soil, & chemically induced production. At the very least we need to return to local milling to grind the whole grain without removing all the constituent parts & reduce the time between milling & consumption to avoid spoiling the milled product. Mass produced bread is now a baked extruded foam product.

[@sanzidakhannargis986]

Isn't the flour gritty in the end

[@jbradshaw4236]

Surprisingly not. The flour is very fine actually. This natural milling process retains more nutrients than modern flour making process.

[@brd8764]

A flored worker is all we know here about a flour mill. In a common four mill there is a lot of flour dust.

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I want to know about splitting pulses tradition.

[@nonovaey3652]

This is the best flour.

[@ashasalian9887]

It's tradition of India

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It didn't originated in india

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Mitochondria is the power house of the cell.

[@diptyabhashgagoi5727]

I'm fearing about the crasher dusts of those two stones 😮

[@Cyberphunkisms]

I thought this was cool.. until the part about constantly pumping water to maintain an artificial river to accommodate the mill... that was ridiculous considering, it was an energy-saving device. But I guess this is the long history about how everything led up to 2020.

[@venividivivi]

They can make one Amberlynn Reid of flour a day.

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This is how they did it in RuneScape

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Tom can complete a job in 60 minutes; Jerry can do the same job in 50 minutes and Bob can do the same job in 40 minutes ! How long will it take Tom and Bob to do the job working together ? How long will the job take if all three work together ? Can you solve in Ten minutes ……?

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Praise the LORD for creating flour!

[@kingofsomething3250]

yeah and praise us for breeding and cultivating wheat

[@danarthur771]

my dreams(wheat) + society(watermill) = reality(flour)

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That lady sounds like David firth

[@guyeshel9316]

I wonder how the flour is

[@canethings91]

still operational until this time?

[@flowstate6769]

Doesn’t it take more energy to pump all that water than it takes to make the floor in the first place?

[@loam6740]

If they have to pump the water back to the top its not even really water powered is it?

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wow

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*starts at **2:08* ^-^ you’re welcome

[@JustYourAverageGirl2002]

Didn't they also use mules and what not back in the day to grind flour?

[@polishedmeat6399]

yep but this was more efficient. no need to feed mules and care about them

[@aridroutsas3786]

All I learnt was that wheel spins and then flour. No further information passed that.

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All Java classes in that village are singleton.

[@julianbernard6183]

Holy crap I thought they created power like a windmill 🤦🏽🤦🏽I feel so uneducated

[@tangoraven]

Pump the water up and then let the water flow back to turn the mill. That can't be energy efficient.

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8.

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rule of thumb

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4:33 people eat that food!!

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Ben Kellner Its really unhealthy to eat raw flour, i doubt it

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Ok.

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[@notjalyn2162]

@dev null ahh that makes sense, thank you :)

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From what i saw, we need pigeon in making a flour.

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Versace on the flour

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[@seezie]

why not just... use the electricity to grind the flour instead of digging out a lake and pumping water into it?

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wheat flour has gluten in the mill with water

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*Windmills are memes!*

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_Bob McCoy Lisa Guerrero would confront that windmill

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so glad native British are there to tell us about their history

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Gimme that gluten

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Sorry

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Look at the grinder. It us made of stone. In the end you will have bread with stone that will grind your teeth. Sometimes older does not meen better

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[@WhyDoThat]

This seems pointless. If you are pumping the water back up to make the wheel turn then you might as well just having it powered by electricity.. Energy can be changed into another form but additional energy isn't going to be created. First Law of Thermodynamics If anything it will take more energy to spin the wheel and the evaporation loss from water pumped up.

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Early

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More like how a watermill works

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Well watermill is in the title

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