I am very disappointed in my dry grains container. I've had my Vitamix for 3 years and have loved it, so I recently purchased the dry container because I wanted to make my own flours. I tried to grind wheat berries and could just not get a fine powder, so I thought maybe it was not made for that purpose, even though it is advertised as a DRY GRAINS container. However, today I attempted to grind oatmeal into a fine powder and, after stirring and grinding 3 times it was still very grainy. My smooth cake batter is NOT smooth at all. I had better results when using my original container. I feel like the grain container is a waste of my money. So unfortunate.

I believe my Vitamix was purchased in the early 1990s. I've used it constantly since, especially the dry container which served to grind the rice for our waffles every Sunday morning since. It finally wore out this year, though the liquid one still seems okay. So I asked you which of available replacements would work. I guess I've had the replacement for over a month now and have been amazed to discover that it takes me almost twice as long to grind the rice kernels as it did with the old one. And the rice never gets to the desired fineness; I have to put it into an even more ancient coffee grinder that was purchased second-hand in the eighties to get it to the desired fineness. The shape is different; this is more square and the old one was more rounded. I don't know if that's the source of the lost efficiency. I won't return this since I'd have nothing to prep my waffles in, but I am very, very disappointed.

Use for nut butters. roast them and let them cool completely and it blends up in 10 mins