Has anyone else given up on grocery store bread - white loaf bread? It was never great bread but now it is disgusting to me. What have they done to it?
Are you talking about the commercial bread like Pepperidge Farm or the bread that's made by the grocery store bakery?Has anyone else given up on grocery store bread - white loaf bread? It was never great bread but now it is disgusting to me. What have they done to it?
Wonder bread and such. I don’t even find Pepperidge Farm decent any more. I either go to Breadsmith or make my own now.Are you talking about the commercial bread like Pepperidge Farm or the Bread that's made by the grocery store bakery?
When SWMBO and I were traveling in western Michigan a few years ago we swung into the Bellaire farmer's market.
There was a gentleman there with a pickup truck loaded with "round things". SWMBO asked me "what's that? Giant Turnups?". I looked and said, "looks like a truck load of bread to me". She said STOP we need bread.
We stopped and I walked back. Talk about one interesting person. He made a large clay and brick oven and baked bread. LOTS of bread. There must have been more than 80-100 hot loaves in the truck and he said his oven was still fried up and he was going to bake more.
I bought a loaf for $5 and after tasting it with SWMBO.... whoa... what a fantastic tasting bread. I walked back and said "I'm going to have to get that $5 back from you". He started to reach in his pocket when I finished up with "because I need to give you this $10 and get a second loaf". This made him laugh..
When I got back to the RV SWMBO had time to think and said we should get some for the friends we were staying with. So I walked back a 3rd time with another $10 for 2 more loaves.
We went back every week and never saw him again but I've never had such good bread before or since.
And that is my bread story.
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Mick, that was not me. But I can make bread like that. However... It is a heck of a lot of work. Starter (biga), time, kneading, time, effort. (And now, alas, I avoid carbs.)
Making great bread is easy. A few years of practice, the right ingredients, the right oven, and anyone can master it. LOL