Is a cheap grain mill worth it?

[TimpanogosSlim]

Wasn't necessarily directed to you, tre9er. My question was "so long as the grains are broken". Some people seem to have an almost aesthetic wish for uniform grain particle size in the crush. I know that's not you. Personally, I don't care a whit whether my particles are a matched set (and I don't think conversion does either).

unbroken grains, and insufficiently broken grains, represent an efficiency loss. Whether or not it's significant is up to the brewer imho.