Bread Flour

newlywed

I gave up trying Aldi sainsbury and Tesco... one tip on here was for Lakeland and they had yeast and bread flour for a small delivery charge.

Grumpelstiltskin

My Tesco had Bread Flour this morning, in plain plastic bags not the usual paper bags.

pogofish

Bread flour is back at my local Lidl and Tesco stores! Tesco also has a good representation of other types of flour, incl new lines of very basic-bagged flours in larger quantities.

So I am well stocked-up again now. 

Bacman

Nargleblast - it isn't sifting the flour it is how fine it is ground originally. Sifting improves the air around the flour to make things lighter however some recipes state it some don't. The fineness of flour contributes to the gluten in the flour which after all is what traps the air expelled from the yeast that rises the bread.
Steve_L - Yes, I actually, after over 2 months, got some flour a week back from Asda online too!

GaleSF63

Earlier today Waitrose had 16kg  bags of white bread flour on their website for the first time. It's all gone now, "sold out online", it says, but it probably means they will get some more soon as they've obviously found a supplier. 

MysteryMe

16kgs, you'd be rivalling Warburtons with all that bread making!

GaleSF63

MysteryMe said:

16kgs, you'd be rivalling Warburtons with all that bread making!

Not me, I've still got the same half bag of self-raising and an out-of-date bread-mix that I had at the beginning of lockdown!  I don't want to use it until I can get some more in case I really need some for something and I've run out.

But there seem to be some industrial levels of bread-making going on out there judging by some of the posts. (And from the speed at which Waitrose ran out of it!)

Bacman

If you buy such big bags, it would be sensible to bag them in freezer bags (ie plastic bags with no holes in for example) to keep weevils out and if you have some, hopefully only some bags will be infested not the whole lot. Weevils are tiny insects you see in flour, about 1mm long; they are capable of eating through paper; people with respiratory issues could have problems if they eat weevils. (I always bag my paper bags of flour separately for that reason).

PiersHudson

Clowance said:

no normal flour seems to be available either. Everyone baking?

My wife bakes, but we can't find good quality flour around anymore

molerat

Aldi had 16Kg bags of bread flour this morning.  Lidl had a shelf full of 1.5Kg.  Asda site said I could order some wholemeal for an on line order, don't know where they would get it from as there was none on the shelf in store.