re: MAHA: worst breads on grocery shelves

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lsuguy84

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My daughter just won a kids baking competition sponsored by King Arthur at the fair last week. Should have entered her in the adult division she would have won that easily and the prize was twice as large. We need to get on their website and use the prize $ before we forget.

I've been meaning to try making french bread since we cant find any decent baguettes in FL all are just soft white bread w no crust. Wonder if these baguette pans would be useful


King Arthur baguette pan

King Arthur has some of the best pans and equipment out there. It is not cheap, but it's quality.

And big congrats to the young lady!

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And baking bread makes the house smell AMAZING!

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When we had our house listed and a showing scheduled, my wife (no pics) would bake a loaf in the bread maker.

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Good luck trying to find non-GMO flour

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https://www.ancientgrains.com/

Just bought a couple of 10lb flour bags from them recently. If the bread comes out good plan to get a flour grinding attachment for my Kitchen-Aid and buying thr 5 gallon buckets of raw grains.

I don't think many, aside from the really uneducated, buy any of those breads in the list not knowing that they're very unhealthy.

Most of those are the sweetest ones in the store.

Anyone making an effort at all to eat healthy can easily find breads in the aisle that aren't too bad though:

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Why would you even bother?

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TD Health/Fitness board: Wheat Belly / Super Gut / Unholy Trinity - Carbs, Sugars, & Oils make us sick & addicted

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i’ve never eaten bunny bread for the health benefits.

iniust know the bread my wife buys is like trying to eat bird seed

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I guess I got converted to eating my bird seed bread and smiling.

It’s pretty much foolproof. You need a Dutch oven, a kitchen scale, water, yeast, bread flour, and salt. You can also use a brotform if you want it to sit in its final shape for the last 2 hours or in the fridge up to 24 hours but that’s optional. Another thing you may need is a lame or a razor blade for scoring.

Mix the ingredients, let the dough sit covered for 12 hours, shape the bread into a ball, let it sit another 1-2 hours, preheat Dutch oven for 30 mins at 475, then bake uncovered for 30 mins in the Dutch oven. Take the lid off and bake another 30 mins to get it nice and brown. I like to score the bread right beforehand so the steam knows where to go with the oven spring effect. If you have any questions I’m happy to answer them

PS: I also like to stretch and fold the dough every half hour for the first 30 mins which takes like 5 seconds but this is optional. Just sets up the dough better. If you want a good YouTuber to watch on the subject, check out “the perfect loaf” channel. Lots of good nuggets.

PPS: the ingredient weights are 400g bread flour, 300g cool water like 55-65 degrees, 1-2tsp salt, and 1/4tsp yeast. You can just mix it in a bowl with a wooden spoon. I can put it all together in my sleep it’s so easy.