Moulin Astrié, a flour mill
When we talk about Moulin Astrié, we’re talking about a flour mill. Astrié’ is the name of the inventors, Pierre and André Astrié.
The Astrié brothers developed a flour mill that completely replaced the cylinders with stone millstones cut in a very special way to respect the chosen cereal.
Differences between a roller mill and a stone mill?
There are different types of flour mill. The best known are the cylinder mill (the most commonly used in baking) and the stone mill. The biggest difference is that a cylinder mill requires several passes to extract the flour from the grain.
In both cases, the grain is heated each time it passes through, so it gradually loses its nutritional qualities.
In both cases, the grain is crushed (by the cylinders or by the weight of the millstones), so the nutritional value is less, even if it is often better with a stone mill.
What makes the difference is not so much the stone mill versus the cylinder mill, but the Astrié mill versus the traditional stone mill.
What is the difference between an Astrié and a non-Astrié stone mill?
The system invented by Pierre and André Astrié allows micrometric adjustment of the distance between the grinding wheels. This is what enables the quality and finesse of the grind, with an extraction rate of 80% in a single pass.
The flour is not overheated or oxidised. On any other mill, it would take several passes between the millstones or cylinders to achieve such a high extraction rate.
This obviously determines the added value you can achieve with exceptional flour: How can you increase your added value with the Astrié flour mill? Follow the guide.
What does Astréia manufacture?
Our company manufactures Astrié-type stone flour mills, with no changes whatsoever to the invention of the Astrié brothers who gave their name to their mill.
As you will have realised, the expression ‘flour mill’ is nothing if we don’t talk about how the flour is ground. That’s why we say that Astréia manufactures an Astrié type millstone flour mill.
With this long sentence you now know that in addition to making a flour mill, we use stone millstones that we cut ourselves in the workshop while respecting the process and the invention of the inventors: Pierre and André Astrié.
