Bread Difference

Edwardia

OH has, after feasting on bread all his life, developed a wheat intolerance. His favourite breads were:

1. Olive bread, Gail's Bakery from Ocado
http://gailsbread.co.uk/

2. Flour Power City pain de campagne from Riverford
http://www.flourpowercity.co.uk/

3. Waitrose organic baguette, 99p preferably warm

4. Burgen soya and linseed bread, £1 from Iceland
http://www.burgenbread.com/

He's switched to Genius GF brown sliced and seems happy with that but yearning for a breadmaker for weekends. (Santa may arrange it)

The essential accompaniment to good bread though is surely a slathering of butter ?

I have to make do with crackers because bread is too carby for me, spikes my blood sugar. I do love the smell of toast though mmmmm

Organic loaves tend to go stale quickly, not quite as bad as French bread though.. I've known baguettes go hard as soon as they reach Dover
Cheap white bread always seemed to start off chewy and then get very dry.

paulineb_2

Tescos cheapest own brand bread and their dearer own brand version looks smells and tastes identical.

RHYSDAD

I hand bake my own wherever possible but this isn't always practical. It's nothing to do with snobbery, more that fresh hand baked bread is just sooo far removed from the tasteless crap peddled in shops.

dandelionclock30

paulineb wrote: »

Tescos cheapest own brand bread and their dearer own brand version looks smells and tastes identical.

I'll remember that, its best to steer well clear of Tesco's own bread.

Kirri

The Real Bread Campaign will tell you the difference in real bread and mass produced stuff (usually has a load of extra crap in to preserve it etc). Unless it's organic where they can't put so much crap in, I shouldn't think there is much difference between the various supermarket levels of bread, that's more marketing budget..

However, the new Hovis (best of both?) loaves have less additives in than some brands (Warburtons seem to have a lot).

http://www.sustainweb.org/realbread/what_is_real_bread/

Amys

If you want to know the different between the mass produced sliced loaves and 'fresh' bread, just look up the Chorelywood method of production.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process

Edwardia

Yeah but I seem to remember reading that some of the supermarket fresh bread is made from frozen mass-produced dough and that doesn't really seem fresh to me.

I was with my mother in a huge 24/7 Tesco Extra store at Easter and as you came up the travelator there was the yummy smell of hot cross buns. The instore bakery was waay over the other side of the store though and I suspect it was a fake hot cross bun smell cos we couldn't smell it in the aisles in between the entrance and bakery or even at the bakery bit

A._Badger

Amys wrote: »

If you want to know the different between the mass produced sliced loaves and 'fresh' bread, just look up the Chorelywood method of production.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process

Yes, but make sure you read carefully. The fact is that a lot of independent bakers use the same process, too, Even crusty bread from your local baker could be made using the Chorleywood process - in fact even 'organic' bread can be (and is) produced that way.

Whether it is actually harmful is the subject of much debate.

sleepymans

Most breads that are produced by the "Chorleywood method" are pretty poor taste quality IMO.

Generally speaking Tresco bread in my local store is underbaked and "pappy".

I find rolls/cobs/barms to be generally more palitable but I do understand that personal taste will vary.

Home baked bread or rolls are yummy....but maybe too yummy! Its easy to eat too muchof a good thing!!

I have to admit that I make OH pack-ups with Warburtons or M&S or Morrisons sliced bread.

Cheaper than having Paul Hollywood in my pantry;)

sniggings

why don't you try one and see which you prefer, there is a difference wether you like that or not is a different matter.

I find brown bread is easier to get a way with a cheaper one than white, white bread I just stick to Warburtons or rolls, just tried Aldi white rolls and they are about half the price(55p)of the others I used to buy and taste much better.