30 DAYS OPEN PURCHASEFlour is a fresh product, even if it's rarely treated as one. As soon as a grain is milled, the oils in the germ start to turn rancid and the aroma starts to fade, and the flour in your cupboard has often been there longer than you think. Anyone who has baked with freshly milled flour knows it tastes like something else entirely: nuttier, sweeter, more of the grain itself.
Marga Mulino is Marcato's mill for home use, and it works differently from most. Instead of stones or burrs, it has three anodised aluminium rollers that turn in different directions and at different speeds. You set the gap between the rollers with the dial. On settings 1 to 4 the grains are pressed into flakes of varying thickness, for porridge, granola or muesli. On settings 5 and 6 they're milled into flour, and if you run the flour through a few more times on setting 0 you get a finer flour without bran.
It handles oats, barley, rye, spelt, wheat, durum wheat, kamut, buckwheat, millet, quinoa and rice, and home brewers can use it to crack malt for beer. The hopper is held in place by magnets and comes off easily, and a hatch at the bottom lets you see how the milling is going. Crank by hand, or attach Marcato's Pastadrive motor, sold separately.
The body is chrome-plated steel and the rollers anodised aluminium. Includes table clamp, crank, hopper, collection tray and a cleaning brush. Dimensions 17 x 13 x 22 cm, weight approx. 2.3 kg. Clean with a dry cloth and brush. The mill must not get wet or be immersed in water. Made in Italy.
