good bread, bad bread

[Trustmeimadoctor]

I just had some truly awful bread
Tesco hand crafted seed and sourdough £2.40 for a 600g lough

It looked great loads of seeds so I thought give it a go

fk me it was so tough and dry
I mean I'm all for a nice crust and a chew but by god it was like a really bad rye bread. I even left it soaking in some soup it made hardly any difference it was seemingly waterproof!
Soup was nice though Yorkshire Provender cauliflower so I can recommend that

But it got me thinking of other breads I don't like

Brown is the one that I've had the longest hatred against, I don't mean the new whomeal etc but brown from the 70's and 80's always so dry and seemed like a punishment if you ever were forced to eat it at some weird relatives house nowt like the lovely bleached sliced white at the same time
Rye
It's hard to call it even food and this isn't including ryveita either

Un-toasted bagels
I mean why would you even eat one not toasted

Flowery baps/burger buns
Dry pointless

So good breads
Cheap Sliced white
Especially with egg and cress with salad cream pure nostalgia.

Sourdough
Love the tang and except the one that caused me to write this haven't had a bad one

Scottish Morning rolls
Much better than the normal baps

Oven bottom muffins
Both white and whomeal these things are amazing for a lunch sandwich
I mean there is no reason for any other type of bread bun/cake/bap imho

Anyway the rest of the loaf is in the bin

Edited by Trustmeimadoctor on Monday 13th February 14:15

[ChevronB19]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

Un-toasted bangles

I prefer Susanna Hoffs natural thanks (edit: I’m so terribly sorry )

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Bloody autocorrect

[Big Stevie]

There can be only one

[Lotobear]

I agree that Scottish Morning Rolls are lovely, with butter and marmalade on.

..we've reached peak sour dough though, bloody hateful stuff - especially when prefixed with 'Artisan'

[RizzoTheRat]

The bakery at our local market does a fantastic Spelt loaf, sadly I'm back in the office full time again these days so rarely make it to the market but when WFH my standard Thursday lunchtime was a 5k run ending at the market to load up on fresh bread and something nice from the cheese stand.

The local supermarket does a pretty decent "donker" that I usually buy for sandwiches.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

wtf is a donker?

[BIRMA]

Morissons sell the excellent Coburg which is a plain white round loaf and it is lovely. Having said that the price has gone up from 50p to 90p recently so I just bought a bread maker and make my own these days.

[Gluggy]

Iceland do a some great "bloomer" loaves, both the white and tiger are some of the our favourite thick cut bread and whilst they have gotten more expensive (what hasn't?) for £1.60 they are equally as good, if not better than some of branded loafs.

[RizzoTheRat]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

wtf is a donker?

"Dark". Dutch/German bread with a mix of Wheat and Rye. A pure Rye loaf can often be a bit chewy but a donker's a lot lighter texture, more like a farmhouse granary but darker and flavour a bit like comparing light vs dark malts in beers. Quite a few UK bakeries do it these days but it's a bit artisan whereas here in the Netherlands it's a standard bread you get everywhere.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

hmm could try a donker them as i dont like the heavy chew of rye

[dapprman]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

Un-toasted bagels
I mean why would you even eat one not toasted

Bagels should not or ever be toasted, only reason they seem to be is it became a fashion to hide stale and over-doughy ones. Probably came out of New York where they still think they invented them

[Trustmeimadoctor]

hmm must admit never had one that wasnt from a supermarket

[Jer_1974]

Village bakery polish bread from any supermarket is decent. They do loads of different styles and it's not much more expensive than a loaf of Warburtons. The sourdough is really nice toasted.

[theplayingmantis]

didn't we have this thread the other?

[dapprman]

Jer_1974 said:

Village bakery polish bread from any supermarket is decent. They do loads of different styles and it's not much more expensive than a loaf of Warburtons. The sourdough is really nice toasted.

In Rickmansworth there used to be an award winning bakery, produce was superb (until Rickmansworth Council reduced free parking for 2 to 1 hours then they lost footfall and closed, though I believe they still do trade orders). Thing is they were cheaper than the local Waitrose, M&S and Tesco for the comparable loaves. Really do miss their sour dough.

[oddman]

The obvious smug answer



Once you have your own breadmaking routine dialled you won't look back. No bought bread tastes as good


Slightly less smug answer - Breadmaker

They're really very little effort and there are lots of ways to tweak the recipes to suit your tastes. You can also make dough to shape into rolls or pizzas.

[goldar]

I do like the Aldi bloomers. I also discovered stotties up north.

[Zarco]

I only buy bread from my local Warings bakery really. The multi seed (granary basically) is superb. Buy one of those and a white sandwich loaf every Saturday morning.

Everything from supermarkets is rubbish except maybe a French stick.

[Jonnny]

Salt & Pepper Rolls from the in-store bakery at Morrisons are nice, decent size too.

Bit of ham and cheese and a little mayonnaise.