Wheat Cereal Types

• There are two main categories of wheat cereal: flaked wheat, such as Wheaties, and hot cooked wheat, such as Farina. While flaking mills generally are far too large and expensive to have at home--making the production of flaked wheat cereals difficult to impossible by the home chef--cooked wheat cereal is easy for the home chef to prepare.
  
  

Grinding Wheat in a Grain Mill

• More serious home chefs or those who grind large quantities of wheat often will invest in a grain mill. These can be either electric (often with multiple speeds or blade types for grinding different grains) or hand-cranked.
  To grind wheat in a grain mill, turn the mill's setting to "coarse" and run the wheat through on the lowest speed for an electric mill, or at a moderate pace with a hand-cranked mill. Repeat the process if you enjoy finer cereal.
  
  

Grinding Wheat in a Blender or Coffee Grinder

• Chefs who don't wish to invest in specialty equipment often will choose to grind their wheat in a blender or coffee mill. To grind wheat using this method, place a half-cup or less of wheat berries into the blender jar or coffee mill and pulse at one- to two-second intervals until the wheat is the consistency you like. The less wheat you try to grind at once, the faster it will go.