flour milling
Making wheat powder
Flour milling is the process of grinding grain into flour, typically wheat but also corn, rye, or other cereals.
The term covers both the industrial operation and the industry itself: Her family has been in flour milling for generations.
Modern flour milling involves multiple stages of crushing, sifting, and separating to produce flours of different grades and textures.
- watermillRiver-driven grinding facility
- gristmillBuilding for grinding grain
- grindingMolar action sometimes
- siftingSeparating by particle size
- wheatCereal crop for flour
wheat berries · bolting · windmill · corn · semolina · purifying · bran · tempering · millstone · stone ground · germ · rye · endosperm · industrial revolution · grain elevator · chaff · oats · barley
- food processingcanning, freezing, drying, packaging, pasteurization
- Grain Industrywheat farming, rice farming, corn farming, cereal production, grain storage
- grindinggrinding, crushing, pulverizing, granulation, powdering
- Maghreb economyphosphates, argan oil, citrus, dates, olives
- Midwest Economycorn farming, wheat farming, grain elevators, farm equipment, John Deere
- millingmills, millstone, millrace, quern, gristmill
food production activity
flour millingbaking
Cooking with dry heat
sugar refining · bread making · meat processing · grain harvesting · dairy production