There's a thread on here somewhere about the customer support for the barley crusher, which has been...well, spotty at best. Some with the quality.
I owned one, and I wasn't all that impressed. Sold it.
@CascadesBrewer has had one for a long time; I suspect, can't prove, that quality went downhill since he bought his.
I bought a Monster Mill 3-roller. The selling point is that you can crush grain with less of it presumably turning to flour. The reasoning behind that is in part that flour will oxidize, larger particles not so much. You can believe as much of that as you like.
If I were doing it again and looking for the more budget-model, the Cereal Killer would be my choice.
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I bought the Monster Mill to enhance LODO stuff I am doing--and I don't want to turn this into a LODO thread. I motorized it, and part of the reasoning was to crush grain as close to dough-in as possible, to minimize the time the grain would be oxidizing after crush.
It's also a higher capacity mill. It takes me about 2 minutes to crush 12 pounds of grain, which is part of what I was looking for, faster crush.
The price of all that was over $500. Worth it? Who knows? But I am a scientist, testing out the LODO stuff, and the only way to fairly do that is to implement all the elements of that, including a slow RPM crush yet with high capacity. It certainly is more convenient the way I have it set up, but the price is, well, pricey.
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