How Flour Is Made At A Traditional Watermill

At Lurgashall Watermill at Weald and Downland Museum in West Sussex, flour is still made using traditional methods. When grinding, it turns at about six revolutions per minute. Each complete turn is powered by 200 gallons of water.
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How Flour Is Made At A Traditional Watermill

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  • @andreanalee445
    @andreanalee4455 жыл бұрын

    Wow no bad music and not a lot of repeating clips This is quality content

  • @Zyra-Not-The-LOL-One

    @Zyra-Not-The-LOL-One

    5 жыл бұрын

    Andreana Lee This is Insider.

  • @cosmicallyderived

    @cosmicallyderived

    2 ай бұрын

    None of which shows the actual giant millstone in action. What a let down.

  • @RayMak
    @RayMak5 жыл бұрын

    Bread made from these flours are heavenly

  • @nene.8213

    @nene.8213

    3 жыл бұрын

    hello

  • @carthlim1572

    @carthlim1572

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Nathaniel Mateo no dont its a bot his acc was made 2 months ago

  • @carthlim1572

    @carthlim1572

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oop nvm both of them are bots

  • @mckennashea6916

    @mckennashea6916

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nene.8213 que. L

  • @Ignisan_66

    @Ignisan_66

    Жыл бұрын

    This bot is everywhere. Cringe.

  • @jbradshaw4236
    @jbradshaw42363 жыл бұрын

    Aged 8 I painted that mill on a school trip. Later in life became a member, proud to say I then married at the museum .. a national treasure. Can't attend the museum without buying a biscuit or two from the mill!

  • @soapbox187

    @soapbox187

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thats an amazing story! Hope you saved that painting.

  • @jbradshaw4236

    @jbradshaw4236

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@soapbox187 alas I was only 8 so I don't have it anymore but still vividly remember it. After the wedding we had some nice photos by the mill... If you get the chance visit the museum. A wonderful place.. atb

  • @MoxieBeast
    @MoxieBeast5 жыл бұрын

    this is really neat! and very picturesque. i would love to purchase a bag 😍

  • @watermill4854
    @watermill48542 жыл бұрын

    This is a really excellent overview of all the watermill stages in milling. Excellent

  • @zimbatron552
    @zimbatron5525 жыл бұрын

    That place its beautiful. I'd love to have a restaurant there

  • @Itdontmatter69

    @Itdontmatter69

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ha my exact thought

  • @cawaidesne
    @cawaidesne3 жыл бұрын

    God bless you for keeping tradition alive!

  • @NutMunchy
    @NutMunchy5 жыл бұрын

    My school went on a Field trio in 4th grade and we got to make flour

  • @lunarcorpse

    @lunarcorpse

    3 жыл бұрын

    My class went to a cheese factory, fresh cheese is so delicious. After the cheese factory we went to a chocolate factory. I was only in second grade then, but I don't remember everything that happened. All I remember is the taste of the cheese.

  • @gavnonadoroge3092

    @gavnonadoroge3092

    2 жыл бұрын

    free child labor

  • @anthonylatour8493
    @anthonylatour84935 жыл бұрын

    God video still going making iteresting videos congratulation from panama🇵🇦

  • @solochristo65
    @solochristo658 ай бұрын

    I looked this up because I was watching an episode of Escape to the Country with my 90+ year old parents and in that episode they showed a man that spent 14 years refurbishing a 17th century windmill and they also use it for making flour. This was great

  • @thecomputer9722
    @thecomputer97225 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, very cool.

  • @tastethejace
    @tastethejace2 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating video. Thank you for sharing

  • @muhammadafzal3865
    @muhammadafzal38653 жыл бұрын

    love for your work

  • @takagikiana4924
    @takagikiana49242 жыл бұрын

    Wow, that’s so cool and amazing!

  • @jflo6830
    @jflo6830 Жыл бұрын

    Truly a beautiful site. One poor man like me from Texas can only image of such a place. Thank you for sharing 🙏 "when it feels right It is right". Love it

  • @alejandromarquez3514
    @alejandromarquez35143 жыл бұрын

    Great educational video!

  • @q6k
    @q6k5 жыл бұрын

    now this is epic.

  • @ShinKyuubi
    @ShinKyuubi4 жыл бұрын

    Very near where I live there is an old mill..the river dried up years upon years before I was born and the mill is in disrepair..I haven't been by it in years..the road it was on used to be dirt and gravel but I think they paved it in the years since I was a kid so the mill may be gone..there are a few other mills in my state but I don't know if any make flour or cornmeal..if they did I'd buy some from local markets but they keep that stuff very close to the mill if not outright in it as a specialty item..I got a local outdoor market..might have to see if there is any stone ground flour there..that would make some dang good homemade bread..

  • @sophieparker4574
    @sophieparker45743 жыл бұрын

    This is beautiful 😍

  • @Exoclypse
    @Exoclypse4 жыл бұрын

    Since you have to pump the water back into the pond, you might as well save a lot of energy and use an electric motor. I know they want to show how it worked back then so I hope they only make it work during visits.

  • @rocketmik65

    @rocketmik65

    2 жыл бұрын

    @dev null I mean, it's not only a watermill but a museum as well, showing how it was done in ye olde days, wouldn't be very educational if they just did it with a motor.

  • @Rohandutt

    @Rohandutt

    2 жыл бұрын

    then it wOuld end the motive of it which is showing the visitors how it works without electricity

  • @Varunkm110
    @Varunkm1103 жыл бұрын

    Excellent

  • @aleatorioemais5168
    @aleatorioemais51685 жыл бұрын

    Kiss from Brazil! 😘

  • @Stephen_Strange
    @Stephen_Strange2 жыл бұрын

    I like it!

  • @farahpriem7193
    @farahpriem71935 жыл бұрын

    So cool

  • @darrenchan7652
    @darrenchan76525 жыл бұрын

    Holy crap I didn’t know this was an insider video until I noticed the insider logo.... They have gotten so much better with their content....

  • @joeydr1497
    @joeydr14974 жыл бұрын

    I’ve been here there building a bakery next to it so they can make bread and cookies for tourists

  • @thechitchanman
    @thechitchanman6 ай бұрын

    Yeah, you grind that flour! Grind it good!!

  • @WillysToys
    @WillysToys5 жыл бұрын

    CARBS!

  • @bryanmartinez6600

    @bryanmartinez6600

    5 жыл бұрын

    DELICIOUS!!!

  • @nizammahamood4540

    @nizammahamood4540

    4 жыл бұрын

    Gluten!

  • @Jasynatics
    @Jasynatics2 жыл бұрын

    Me when answering hard question in exams: If it feels right, it is right

  • @pineapplelord2422
    @pineapplelord24225 жыл бұрын

    West *SUSSEX*

  • @nonovaey3652
    @nonovaey36525 жыл бұрын

    This is the best flour.

  • @karv9445
    @karv9445 Жыл бұрын

    If you're pumping water from the lower to the upper reservoir arent you losing energy? It would be more efficient to use the energy put into pumping to turn the wheel instead. The only benefit would be the fact that the upper reservoir serves as a battery to keep the mill running if the pump is shut off. I'm assuming the original site of the mill was along a river and the system currently in place for the sluice gates was with new materials made to look period appropriate.

  • @beatar.1130

    @beatar.1130

    11 ай бұрын

    Undershot water wheel is indeed less efficient than overshot one (when water pours down from upper reservoir) but it's just the oldest version of the vertical water wheel sooo I assume people used it until they invented better wheel

  • @Ottoschmitz-hi

    @Ottoschmitz-hi

    3 ай бұрын

    It's history not an energy efficiency competition you dolt

  • @dr.omeganebula1529
    @dr.omeganebula15295 жыл бұрын

    I live in the watermill country (the Netherlands)

  • @unlucky_2nd897
    @unlucky_2nd8975 жыл бұрын

    wow

  • @snotnosewilly99
    @snotnosewilly996 ай бұрын

    Same way the Romans made flour 2,000 years ago with stone mills powered by water.

  • @cosmicallyderived
    @cosmicallyderived2 ай бұрын

    I’m sorry was there any footage of the actual mill stone which all that machinery is used to power? I only saw footage of the hand mill stone. We saw flour coming out the full size one why no detailing the scale of the actual millstone. Seems like a gaping omission.

  • @jesseolson109
    @jesseolson1094 жыл бұрын

    I think I found what I want to do in 40 years after I retire

  • @masonallen3916
    @masonallen39165 жыл бұрын

    When i used to live in West Virginia there was a an old mill that sat along a beautiful river. It is sad to seee how people have ruined it with graffiti and vandilism.

  • @sfbluestar
    @sfbluestar4 жыл бұрын

    do the two pieces of grindstones touch each other? If no, how is the top piece suspended? If yes, wouldn't there be a lot of sand in the flour? And how do the grains get forced between the grindstones?

  • @dhruvatri8894

    @dhruvatri8894

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, the two pieces touch each other. There is no sand in flour because grindstones are made out of very hard rock.

  • @marcusaurelius652

    @marcusaurelius652

    Жыл бұрын

    The do not touch each other. Educate yourself

  • @abeonthehill166
    @abeonthehill1662 жыл бұрын

    But can you solve this in less than ten minutes .....? A miller ground out 336 pound of wheat into flour . Enough to fill 128 bags ; some were 2 (Ib) and others were 7 (Ib) bags of Flour. How many 2 (Ib) bags and 7 (Ib) bags of Flour were filled ? If a 2 (Ib) bag is sold for £2 each and a 7 (Ib) is £6 each; how much were all 128 bags sold for ? If only 25% of the total selling price of the Flour was profit ( after expenses ), how much profit did the Miller have for the 336 (Ib) of Flour sold that day ? Regards.......Abe

  • @Anzar_riffi

    @Anzar_riffi

    4 ай бұрын

    To fill up 128 bags with 336 lb flour. You’ll need 112 bags of 2 lb. And 16 bags of 7 lb. 112 bags of 2 lb Profit: 112 bags • £2= £224 total 224•0,25= £ 56,- profit 16 bags 7 lb Profit: 16 bags • £6 = £96,- total 96•0,25= £ 24,- profit So the total profit would be 56+24= £80,-

  • @diptyabhashgagoi5727
    @diptyabhashgagoi57277 ай бұрын

    I'm fearing about the crasher dusts of those two stones 😮

  • @Ignisan_66
    @Ignisan_66 Жыл бұрын

    So it's basically an electric mill with extra steps since all of the energy for grinding comes from electric water pumps which circulate the water between the two ponds. This is not how it was done for "generations" cause old watermills used natural flow of a river to power them.

  • @brd8764
    @brd87644 жыл бұрын

    A flored worker is all we know here about a flour mill. In a common four mill there is a lot of flour dust.

  • @brd8764

    @brd8764

    3 жыл бұрын

    I want to know about splitting pulses tradition.

  • @venividivivi
    @venividivivi5 жыл бұрын

    They can make one Amberlynn Reid of flour a day.

  • @farhanhossain3867
    @farhanhossain38675 жыл бұрын

    Mitochondria is the power house of the cell.

  • @abeonthehill166
    @abeonthehill1664 ай бұрын

    Tom can complete a job in 60 minutes; Jerry can do the same job in 50 minutes and Bob can do the same job in 40 minutes ! How long will it take Tom and Bob to do the job working together ? How long will the job take if all three work together ? Can you solve in Ten minutes ……?

  • @misterfunnybones
    @misterfunnybones Жыл бұрын

    The issue is the grain & the time between milling and consumption. Industrialized food production creates mutant seeds, dead soil, & chemically induced production. At the very least we need to return to local milling to grind the whole grain without removing all the constituent parts & reduce the time between milling & consumption to avoid spoiling the milled product. Mass produced bread is now a baked extruded foam product.

  • @lobsterdad6051
    @lobsterdad60515 жыл бұрын

    That lady sounds like David firth

  • @flowstate6769
    @flowstate67693 жыл бұрын

    Doesn’t it take more energy to pump all that water than it takes to make the floor in the first place?

  • @canethings91
    @canethings91 Жыл бұрын

    still operational until this time?

  • @Nina-fg1ym
    @Nina-fg1ym Жыл бұрын

    This is how they did it in RuneScape

  • @ashasalian9887
    @ashasalian98873 жыл бұрын

    It's tradition of India

  • @LeuBlue

    @LeuBlue

    3 жыл бұрын

    It didn't originated in india

  • @danarthur771
    @danarthur7715 жыл бұрын

    my dreams(wheat) + society(watermill) = reality(flour)

  • @sanzidakhannargis986
    @sanzidakhannargis9865 жыл бұрын

    Isn't the flour gritty in the end

  • @jbradshaw4236

    @jbradshaw4236

    3 жыл бұрын

    Surprisingly not. The flour is very fine actually. This natural milling process retains more nutrients than modern flour making process.

  • @Cyberphunkisms
    @Cyberphunkisms3 жыл бұрын

    I thought this was cool.. until the part about constantly pumping water to maintain an artificial river to accommodate the mill... that was ridiculous considering, it was an energy-saving device. But I guess this is the long history about how everything led up to 2020.

  • @jesusdiedforyouproofjohn3.16
    @jesusdiedforyouproofjohn3.16 Жыл бұрын

    Praise the LORD for creating flour!

  • @kingofsomething3250

    @kingofsomething3250

    8 ай бұрын

    yeah and praise us for breeding and cultivating wheat

  • @loam6740
    @loam67403 жыл бұрын

    If they have to pump the water back to the top its not even really water powered is it?

  • @JustYourAverageGirl2002
    @JustYourAverageGirl20025 жыл бұрын

    Didn't they also use mules and what not back in the day to grind flour?

  • @polishedmeat6399

    @polishedmeat6399

    3 жыл бұрын

    yep but this was more efficient. no need to feed mules and care about them

  • @irem-xh5rr
    @irem-xh5rr5 жыл бұрын

    8.

  • @harjitsingh6962
    @harjitsingh6962 Жыл бұрын

    💪🏋️🤗👍

  • @julianbernard6183
    @julianbernard6183 Жыл бұрын

    Holy crap I thought they created power like a windmill 🤦🏽🤦🏽I feel so uneducated

  • @guyeshel9316
    @guyeshel9316 Жыл бұрын

    I wonder how the flour is

  • @skyy3852
    @skyy38524 жыл бұрын

    Advertisement?

  • @AnggaTirtaFL
    @AnggaTirtaFL3 жыл бұрын

    From what i saw, we need pigeon in making a flour.

  • @dumitrulangham1721
    @dumitrulangham17213 ай бұрын

    😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

  • @aridroutsas3786
    @aridroutsas37863 жыл бұрын

    All I learnt was that wheel spins and then flour. No further information passed that.

  • @fortfish8190
    @fortfish81905 жыл бұрын

    I'm going to make a Go Fund me page.

  • @gavnonadoroge3092
    @gavnonadoroge30922 жыл бұрын

    rule of thumb

  • @neobind4079
    @neobind40794 жыл бұрын

    4:33 people eat that food!!

  • @notjalyn2162

    @notjalyn2162

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ben Kellner Its really unhealthy to eat raw flour, i doubt it

  • @JohnDoe-vw4zf

    @JohnDoe-vw4zf

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ok.

  • @notjalyn2162

    @notjalyn2162

    2 жыл бұрын

    @dev null hello i find this so funny because i have no recollection of commenting this (mostly because it’s from a year ago) anyways, i have no idea what a “carcinogen” is, would you be so kind as to inform me what it is :D ??

  • @notjalyn2162

    @notjalyn2162

    2 жыл бұрын

    @dev null ahh that makes sense, thank you :)

  • @lylethahawkins1150
    @lylethahawkins11505 жыл бұрын

    *starts at **2:08* ^-^ you’re welcome

  • @tangoraven
    @tangoravenАй бұрын

    Pump the water up and then let the water flow back to turn the mill. That can't be energy efficient.

  • @C.Ezra.M
    @C.Ezra.M5 жыл бұрын

    The 51st!

  • @nataliabalazs7355
    @nataliabalazs73555 жыл бұрын

    😶

  • @likeconvideodicaniSAM
    @likeconvideodicaniSAM5 жыл бұрын

    Versace on the flour

  • @nancysmith5587
    @nancysmith55874 жыл бұрын

    B

  • @seezie
    @seezie5 жыл бұрын

    why not just... use the electricity to grind the flour instead of digging out a lake and pumping water into it?

  • @esa2419
    @esa24193 жыл бұрын

    :)

  • @omaxiee
    @omaxiee4 жыл бұрын

    Coronavirus [lil baby voice]

  • @annaandersson630
    @annaandersson6305 жыл бұрын

    1

  • @mia-qf5ml
    @mia-qf5ml5 жыл бұрын

    2nd

  • @BobMcCoy
    @BobMcCoy5 жыл бұрын

    *Windmills are memes!*

  • @kimjunoof8143

    @kimjunoof8143

    5 жыл бұрын

    _Bob McCoy Lisa Guerrero would confront that windmill

  • @xyhmo
    @xyhmo4 жыл бұрын

    Here because of Kingdom Come.

  • @fep_ptcp883
    @fep_ptcp8833 жыл бұрын

    Gimme that gluten

  • @victorasprem6252
    @victorasprem62525 жыл бұрын

    First

  • @lalakakakaka
    @lalakakakaka5 жыл бұрын

    6th commenter❤️💖

  • @fatoshalimi3703
    @fatoshalimi3703Ай бұрын

    wheat flour has gluten in the mill with water

  • @kelpfrming8512
    @kelpfrming85123 жыл бұрын

    so glad native British are there to tell us about their history

  • @nehreenkana8356
    @nehreenkana83565 жыл бұрын

    Early

  • @ENEN-tz6eg
    @ENEN-tz6eg5 жыл бұрын

    More like how a watermill works

  • @bigbird4481

    @bigbird4481

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well watermill is in the title

  • @27nadira
    @27nadira5 жыл бұрын

    21st

  • @anonymoustoes7623
    @anonymoustoes76233 жыл бұрын

    And they say we dont have culture.

  • @empire23singh28
    @empire23singh284 жыл бұрын

    Sorry

  • @WhyDoThat
    @WhyDoThat2 жыл бұрын

    This seems pointless. If you are pumping the water back up to make the wheel turn then you might as well just having it powered by electricity.. Energy can be changed into another form but additional energy isn't going to be created. First Law of Thermodynamics If anything it will take more energy to spin the wheel and the evaporation loss from water pumped up.

  • @user-pl5oj1hr8n
    @user-pl5oj1hr8n Жыл бұрын

    Look at the grinder. It us made of stone. In the end you will have bread with stone that will grind your teeth. Sometimes older does not meen better

  • @mytinplaterailway
    @mytinplaterailway Жыл бұрын

    This would be so much better without the awful music.

  • @nayotorres111
    @nayotorres1115 жыл бұрын

    0:30 she kinda looks like Trump 😂

  • @josephsmith1893
    @josephsmith18934 жыл бұрын

    What a waste of time and effort... These people need to get a life!

  • @lovelychuikira8417
    @lovelychuikira84175 жыл бұрын

    1

  • @c0ltz450

    @c0ltz450

    5 жыл бұрын

    The real first comment, congrats

  • @lovelychuikira8417

    @lovelychuikira8417

    5 жыл бұрын

    Blubber Blub Thanks!☺