Best Bread.. your recommendations please.

patchwork_cat

Oh come on the OP's post is pretentious. This is MSE, no we don't all want to eat bread made by the chorleywood process ( although squishy white bread is one of my comfort foods,), but a lot of people don't use Riverford nor have access to Waitrose.

OP rather than buying mass produced bread from supermarkets ( yes it is still mass produced) you would be better off finding a small local artisan baker and keeping them in business or making your own.

Also don't suggest someone is common just because they can see a post for what it is.However as my sig says express your opinion, just don't expect others not to laugh at you!

SailorSam

Sorry Patchwork i can't see that the Op is coming across as pretentious, all they are saying is they think some bread is nicer than others. Ok it maybe a bit more expensive and i know much of what we discuss here on Mse is about saving money, but sometimes it's worth spending that little bit more to get something made with quality ingredients rather than a loaf full of additives.
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Have i just written that considering my signature ?

salthepal

Chris25 wrote: »

:rotfl:*wags finger* naughty, naughty! :rotfl:

The bread I like for most sandwiches is Sainsburys Taste The Difference Multi-seeded - love, love, love it! .

I have to agree that this is by far the best and tastiest supermarket bread and the only one that I buy. The rest I make myself with the help of my Panasonic BM.

patchwork_cat

SailorSam wrote: »

Sorry Patchwork i can't see that the Op is coming across as pretentious, all they are saying is they think some bread is nicer than others. Ok it maybe a bit more expensive and i know much of what we discuss here on Mse is about saving money, but sometimes it's worth spending that little bit more to get something made with quality ingredients rather than a loaf full of additives.
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Have i just written that considering my signature ?

The thing is as it is mass produced I think it would have a lot more additives and processing than bread from a good local baker.

Kirri

^ Most of the links were from artisan or organic bakers??

It's very hard to find good local bakers now, there isn't one where I live in a big surburban town. I would love it if there was one within walking distance.

FatVonD

I like Warburtons brown bread, it seems to last for ages so it's probably full of all sorts of carp but it tastes nice!

I'm also partial to a nice, fresh tiger loaf.

Edwardia

I live in a town of 50,000 people. NO bakery which bakes its own bread on the premises here.

anniemf2508

Before i had problems with my teeth it would have been crusty tiger bread. But now it has to be warburtons white farmhouse.

Fire_Fox

patchwork_cat wrote: »

Oh come on the OP's post is pretentious. This is MSE, no we don't all want to eat bread made by the chorleywood process ( although squishy white bread is one of my comfort foods,), but a lot of people don't use Riverford nor have access to Waitrose.

OP rather than buying mass produced bread from supermarkets ( yes it is still mass produced) you would be better off finding a small local artisan baker and keeping them in business or making your own.

Also don't suggest someone is common just because they can see a post for what it is.However as my sig says express your opinion, just don't expect others not to laugh at you!

So just because we don't ALL want to eat longlife chemical packed bread means we ALL have to turn in to sheeple and want want you want? Did you bother to read the OP or just leap to conclusions? Are you sure the moderators haven't removed posts, or did you leap to conclusions there too?

The OP posted breads her family considers 'best tasting' (wow pretentious) from right across the board: Lidl, Tesco, and independent bakeries not just Waitrose or Riverford. Since when were 'best buys' and 'value for money' outside the ethos of MSE? Local artisan baker??? My city hits all the indices of multiple deprivation, my area is a food desert. To be fair tho, there is a Greggs. :rotfl:

A lot of people do not have the time, facilities, skills or physical strength to bake interesting breads, not everyone has a family who will eat it up fast enough to make that worthwhile. So how is your 'helpful' suggestion to bake your own any more inclusive? Are you going to advise people to make their own butter and pasta next? Milk their own cow and grow their own wheat in a high rise flat?

Is reverse snobbery, sneering at Riverford and Waitrose really much better than pretentiousness? Did Voltaire really intend his sentiments to be used to defend someone who did nothing but insult another member and in fact doesn't appear to have ever made a positive contribution to this community?

Callie22

Kirri wrote: »

^ Most of the links were from artisan or organic bakers??

It's very hard to find good local bakers now, there isn't one where I live in a big surburban town. I would love it if there was one within walking distance.

Local bakers are a dying breed. My mum's a baker and owns a small village bakery, but the reality is it's just not profitable any more and it's nigh on impossible to find bakers. People just don't want to work such unsocial hours (I didn't either lol, that's why I don't work there!) Bread is such a basic food but people don't think about the absolute crap they eat that's bagged up and sold as 'bread'. It's one of those products where sadly price is king, and that's one reason why there's so few decent independent bakers left.

Edited to add - you can also freeze fresh yeast. It does tend to work slightly less well after freezing but as long as you don't keep it frozen for too long (months and months) then it generally works ok. I usually pinch a block from my mum whenever I visit and keep it in my freezer