Grinding Rice for Homemade Baby Cereal
We received 2 emails during the week asking about grinding rice for homemade baby cereal. I thought I’d clean the coffee grinder and post some images in response. Below I am using Basmati rice because that is what’s for dinner and that’s what I have to use up before I can move onto the brown basmati. I highly recommend using brown rice for baby’s cereal – it’s just more nutritious!
My coffee grinder is a Braun coffee grinder. It is a blade grinder and not a burr grinder. The coffee grinder is simple and cost about $14.95; it’s very old and did the grinding of rice for my (now 7 3/4 years old) twins when they were babies.
You can use old hard bread to clean your coffee grinder and rid it of coffee. The images below will show bits of coffee dust because I did a quick clean as we only use the grinder for coffee now.

First up, the coffee grinder

The grinder with 1/4 cup of whole Basmati rice (I ran out of brown rice!)

Rice after 8 seconds of grinding

Rice after 10 more seconds of grinding

Rice after another 10 seconds of grinding, now in a bowl

Rice in a bowl – part 2 Total grind time: about 30 seconds
Visit our Baby Cereal Recipes page to get recipes and our Homemade Baby Cereal FAQs page to learn about homemade baby cereals.
This grinder really can turn rice into a nice powdery type consistency that is perfect for making homemade baby cereals. It will do barley, steel cut oats, kamut, qunioa etc..

This is the coffee grinder – the link goes to amazon.com
Category: appliances, Cereals, Friendly Baby Food Advice, grains, Uncategorized

Thank you so much for doing the step by step!!
Comment by Ginger — August 23, 2009 @ 4:28 pm
How do you cook it/prepare it once it’s ground?
Comment by amanda — August 23, 2009 @ 8:46 pm
Would a tiny-sized food processor work the same?
Comment by Julia — August 24, 2009 @ 9:11 am
this is great. Thanks! I have been having trouble w my grains!
Comment by N.D — August 24, 2009 @ 10:52 am
The Cuisinart Mini-Prep plus does grains as well; we used both but mostly the grinder. I do think the grinder works better due to the way the blades come in contact with the grains. BUt, you’ll find some who say the food processor works better.
HTH
Comment by Maggie — August 24, 2009 @ 9:27 pm
Hi Amanda, I saw your question on the Wholesome baby food site regarding cooking ground rice for your baby.
You simply prepare it like you would oatmeal or porridge on the stovetop in a pot with water, formula or breast milk–your choice. Allow it to cook until you reach the desired consistency for your baby’s age–thinner for younger babies and thicker for older ones. And feel free to add yummy mixers life fruit, veggies and spices like cinnamon, nutmeg or ginger!
Your baby will gobble it up!
Happy Feeding,
Joni
http://www.feedinglittlefoodies.blogspot.com
Comment by Feeding Little Foodies — August 25, 2009 @ 10:29 pm
This item is out of stock at amazon.com. They may not be getting it back. Has it been discontinued? Will any coffee grinder work? Any other suggestions?
Comment by Tracy — September 1, 2009 @ 9:19 am
Tracy – What a bummer that it’s out of stock now! I just posted it last week
It seems like it’s out of stock everywhere! I’ll send an email to Braun and see what they say.
I did find one on Craig’s List. I’m not a fan of Craig’s List; you might do a search of ebay.
Comment by Maggie — September 1, 2009 @ 7:50 pm
can you just use a food processor to make the powder or will it not make rice powder?
Comment by erica baty — October 21, 2009 @ 3:47 pm
Does the rice have to be rinsed prior to grinding? And does it have to be dried after rinsing?
If yes, how do I dry it? In the open or…?
Comment by Michelle — November 17, 2009 @ 7:46 pm
I would like to know (like Michelle) if the rice has to be washed before grindling and how to dry it. thanks
Comment by Anyvic — November 20, 2009 @ 6:05 pm
Anyvic, an email regarding the washing was sent to another visitor; I thought I had also posted the info. here, apologies.
“We have never washed and then ground grains so we cannot tell you that it will work. If you try it, simply ensure that the grains are dried out prior to grinding them.”
I’m going to do a post about this very topic today! Stay tuned.
Comment by Maggie — November 21, 2009 @ 11:03 am
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