Roller mill for flour
Molino de rodillos para harina
- Date
- 1834 · confidence medium
- Place
- Frauenfeld, Thurgau, Switzerland
- Credited to
- Jacob Sulzberger; Andras Mechwart (Budapest, 1874)
- Field
- Life & health
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
Iron or porcelain rollers replaced millstones and cleanly separate the bran from the endosperm. It gave white, fine and cheap flour and turned milling into an industry.
The first roller mill is credited to Sulzberger in Switzerland (1834); Mechwart's chilled cast-iron roller system in Budapest (1874) made it industrial.
What it led to
- white flour for mass consumption
- the great mills of Budapest and Minneapolis
- loss of nutrients and flour enrichment