Greetings from Whole Wheat in the Bread Machine

Hello, I decided to create an account to share my journey.

I am fairly dedicated to a healthy plant based life, but being strict is not  part of it. Whole Wheat Bread Machine adventures is my game, full time worker with an active personal life is my name. 

I recently bought Flour Water Salt Yeast book on kindle (most expensive kindle buy!). I took many notes on tips to try, but this book just doesn't speak to me because it doesn't commit to whole wheat like I need it to.  Also not ever going to maintain a sourdough starter/levain until maybe i retire. Skipped past that section.  Tried it once, yes it's tasty, I kill rocks.

Outside of that, been tinkering with bread machines off and on for 20 years. Now more recently familiar with cooking with whole grains (like brown rice, whole oats, all legumes).  I cook every bean in electric pressure cooker with a hot soak over night, and some beautiful brown rice in the rice cooker along side.  My favorite rices are thai brown jasmine, short grain brown, black, and Lundberg Wehani red.

So I'm no stranger to long old fashioned simple cooking.  I already owned a Vitamix, and decided to buy the dry grain blade container.  I will be posting in the milled grains and bread machine section.

The main little thing that prompted me to speak out loud tonight was this.  I milled 2 cups of wheat berries in the vitamix with the dry blade and took an instant digital temp.  Almost 140 F degrees.  Making this post while I kill time waiting for it to cool down to room temp!  :)

Thank you, all you good bread making people.

-J