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Follow grain to bread

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A sequence from the wheat kernel through milling, flour, baker's math, and a teaching loaf, landing at Bay Area grain places.

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Giusto's Vita-Grain

Roller milling is streams and ash, not a romantic stone 1. After the spine: Rye and Durum as other grains; The Mill as a closed Divisadero mill-bakery; San Francisco Baking Institute as a teaching bakery. Barley is malt's parent, not a second wheat.

At a glance

Level
beginner

Ingredient

Place

Sequence

  1. Wheat
  2. Milling
  3. Flour
  4. Starch
  5. Gluten
  6. Formula language
  7. A loaf
  8. A Peninsula mill

Sources & further exploration

Cited in this article

  • Miag Multomat Milling Method — USDA Agricultural Research Service, Soft Wheat Quality Laboratory — Experimental mill that approximates commercial roller milling: break and reduction rolls, tempering, straight-grade flour yield and ash ranges.

Updated 2026-08-26. gg:pathway:learn-grain · CC BY 4.0

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