The Best Own Store Brand Strong White Flour?

Butterfly_Brain

I add a vitamin c tablet to Asda Breadflour and I get good results

goodgodthatonesevenbigger

I use Asda bread flour all the time, tho i dont use a BM and i have never had any probs with it, dont forget environmental factors can affect your loaves.

bitsandpieces

Asorbic acid (vitamin c) does make the yeast do more. Another factor to how much the bread will rise is how strong the flour is (how much gluten is in it). Added asorbic acid or gluten to the flour can - up to a point - make the bread rise more.

MrsE_2

nicky_s wrote: »

Waitrose essentials flour is excellent. It also has ascorbic acid in it, and is approx 60p.

That will explain why people rate the Waitrose & Lidl flour.

Justamum

*SmallFry* wrote: »

Hi I bought Asda's own brand 1.5kg bag of strong white flour for 50p because Tesco shot the price of theirs up to a shocking £1.29 :eek:

£1.29! Oh no, I was going to pop in there tomorrow to buy some as I've run out and need a couple of bags (and some soya milk) but I've only got just over £4 left for the week. That's an appalling rise - it was 52p last time I bought some a couple of weeks ago.

bitsandpieces

Justamum wrote: »

£1.29! Oh no, I was going to pop in there tomorrow to buy some as I've run out and need a couple of bags (and some soya milk) but I've only got just over £4 left for the week. That's an appalling rise - it was 52p last time I bought some a couple of weeks ago.

I'm hoping it's not nationwide. Suspect it is, though

Justamum

bitsandpieces wrote: »

I'm hoping it's not nationwide. Suspect it is, though

Drat! Well if it is I'll just have to buy some Waitrose flour at £1 a bag!

*SmallFry*

Justamum wrote: »

Drat! Well if it is I'll just have to buy some Waitrose flour at £1 a bag!

The Waitrose one is 64p at the moment

emiff6

bitsandpieces wrote: »

I'm hoping it's not nationwide. Suspect it is, though

Bound to be - the global price of grain has risen by 40%, mostly because of the failure of the Russian wheat crop , so the price of all wheat products will rise as old stocks are used up and the new price grain begins to come into the market place.

esmf73

If any of you have a large freezer, I buy as much of the flour as possible (when it is cheaper) and then put it in the freezer as soon as I get home. I currently have Tesco, Asda and Allisons (wholemeal and Granary only). Good thing is it doesn't need defrosting!