Fresh Bread or packaged bread

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March 11th, 2018 at 9:34:06 AM permalink
terapined
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Just got done shopping at my local Publix
They have a bakery and I buy French bread every week
I never ever buy pre packaged sliced bread.
Never even consider it.
Yet the pre packaged bread section is huge
No doubt a lot people buy
I just don't get it,
If given a choice, I am always going with freshly baked
How about everyone else?
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March 11th, 2018 at 10:23:21 AM permalink
Fleastiff
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With all the air in that cotton-wool type packaged bread and the cheap dough conditioners they use, I'd love to have fresh bread perhaps even some more exotic grains such as Teff. Love to have my own grist mill too. Any of you utilize urban grist mills?
Fresh hot bread and real butter. Nothing like it.

Unfortunately, I can't afford fresh bread very often and if you look at the ingredients list its pretty obvious that while better, it ain't much better.

PS: I posted before about it being illegal to sell sliced bread during WWtwo. Supposedly it was because the metal was needed for the war effort but it was just a public relations ploy to sell war bonds.
March 11th, 2018 at 10:27:02 AM permalink
beachbumbabs
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Quote: Fleastiff
With all the air in that cotton-wool type packaged bread and the cheap dough conditioners they use, I'd love to have fresh bread perhaps even some more exotic grains such as Teff. Love to have my own grist mill too. Any of you utilize urban grist mills?
Fresh hot bread and real butter. Nothing like it.

Unfortunately, I can't afford fresh bread very often and if you look at the ingredients list its pretty obvious that while better, it ain't much better.


I have a bread maker that makes small loaves that I'm not using. If you want it and will actually use it, let me know. It includes instructions and recipes and does the kneading, rising, and baking automatically.

I know you have dietary and financial issues, which is why I'm offering it. But you have to USE it...yes, I'm a nag.
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March 11th, 2018 at 10:43:32 AM permalink
Fleastiff
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Quote: beachbumbabs
...yes, I'm a nag.
Ah, but a bright and beautiful nag. (And what's more you don't count on your fingers).

As to a bread machine, I used to actually have one of those mini-loaf yeast bread machines... got crumbs all over my apartment and gave fresh bread to many tenants in the building. Woke a few up with its four am noises the first few times though. I finally gave it away to keep my studio apartment from being nothing but bread crumbs.

Now of course I'd feel like a fool lugging a bread machine around with me. I'm still a fugitive from Hurricane Irma's wrath.

Thanks anyway, though.
March 11th, 2018 at 11:29:42 AM permalink
Evenbob
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Quote: Fleastiff
As to a bread machine, I used to actually have one of those mini-loaf yeast bread machines...


Gave up bread and carbs 2 years ago
and never looked back. Carbs and
sugar is what's killing us. It's why we
have a diabetes epidemic.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
March 12th, 2018 at 10:08:38 AM permalink
Nareed
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Quote: terapined
I just don't get it,


Well, a package of pan Bimbo (really) stays fresh enough to make sandwiches or French toast for about ten days. Bakery bread goes rock hard in three days.

Maybe it would be as simple as storing the bakery bread in a plastic bag?
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March 12th, 2018 at 10:23:29 AM permalink
terapined
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Quote: Nareed

Maybe it would be as simple as storing the bakery bread in a plastic bag?


That's what I do
My bakery puts fresh baked bread in a bag with holes so a crust will form
They do provide no hole plastic bread bags that I always grab to store my bread in
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March 12th, 2018 at 3:04:31 PM permalink
gamerfreak
Member since: Feb 19, 2018
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Philly area bakeries that make the best hoagie rolls give them to you in a paper bag. Airtight bags ruin them.
March 12th, 2018 at 3:43:15 PM permalink
Nareed
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All bakeries here put their product in paper bags.
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March 12th, 2018 at 4:35:11 PM permalink
Fleastiff
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I always thought that was partly financial and partly that so many sugared surfaces would stick to plastic.

Mushrooms are sold in paper bags as opposed to plastic for some reason. Chefs reject any mushrooms inside a plastic bag.
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