I love the grain jar. I am making oat flour, corn flour, grinding wheat berries like kamut and Einkorn for a fraction of the cost of the gourmet ancient grain flours. I am also grinding coffee beans.
Pros: Texture Quality, Easy to use, Versatility, Power
So far, I love my dry grains container - particularly for grinding up coffee beans to whatever grind I need. I'll use it for lots of other things too, but so far, this use is my favorite!
Pros: Speed of Service, Durability, Easy to use, Versatility, Power
I wanted to help my grandson make acorn pancakes which he read about in the book "My Side of the Mountain". He has talked about them for several months and since it is now fall, I decided to help him make them. We collected the acorns from a local oak tree and then took the hulls off. We let them dry for 2 days before using the Vitamix Dry Grains Container to make them into flour. I used a pulse setting to chop them up and then blended on high (8) for another 30 seconds or so. This made a fairly fine flour. We then put the flour into a large bowl and covered it with about 3 inches of water, starting the process of to leach out the tannins from the flour. For 3 nights, each morning, we poured off the water and replaced it, stirring the mixture a few times each day. On the 3rd day, the flour mixture, still wet, had a nice nutty flavor without the bitterness of tannins. We used it in a standard sourdough, whole-wheat pancake recipe. We replaced 1/2 of the flour with acorn flour. The pancakes were tasty (just like in the book) and we all enjoyed them.