Bread flour choices

[JoeV]

Do you use bleached or unbleached bread flour?

[suziquzie]

unbleached..... one less thing they "do" to my food..... :)

[Fisher's Mom]

I use unbleached, too.

[homecook]

I tend to buy the unbleached also.

[Fisher's Mom]

It's funny - I don't know why I buy the unbleached. I guess in my mind, I'm thinking bleach shouldn't be in my bread. But I have no idea how flour is "bleached" - there may be no bleach involved!

[homecook]

It wasn't until Joe got me started baking bread that I knew there was an unbleached. lol I'm not sure if some of his recipes called for unbleached and that's why I started buying it. CRS, you know!

[lilbopeep]

i buy heckers unbleached when i can find it.

[ChowderMan]

the theory behind "bleached flour" is TADAAA! a not yellow color.

'bleaching' will actually occur naturally if the flour is allow to "age"

early methods for bleaching involved bromate compounds which have become 'outlawed' in some countries.

see: http://www.prosphora.org/page8.html
provides a basic background to the question . . .

[FryBoy]

Check this out:

http://www.americastestkitchen.com/ibb/posts.aspx?postID=285658

[UnConundrum]

Use pretty much exclusively King Arthur flours... all are unbleached. I use some Caputo which I believe is also unbleached, surely not bromated.

[Fisher's Mom]

Thanks, guys, for the info about bleaching flour. (Am I the only one who is confused now about flour?)

[mandy]

I love bread

[David C]

I actually prefere to use a wholemeal flour for bread as it is the healthy option containing all the goodness of the whole grain!

[Tuscan Chef]

What involves bleaching flour, is it chemicals? We here don't have the choice. Flour has it's original coloration

[PieSusan]

I buy unbleached flour.

[PieSusan]

For further discussion, see. http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/484917

[Guts]

unbleached and not bromated / KASL and ALLTRUMPS

[Maverick2272]

Thanks, guys, for the info about bleaching flour. (Am I the only one who is confused now about flour?)

I was too but JoeV set me straight, LOL. I now buy King Arthur unbleached bread flour and Hodgkins Mill whole wheat flour for my breads. I still use plain bleached all purpose flour for everything else.

[UnConundrum]

Edit to my earlier post.... I'm now milling my own wheat and rye flours. I can't sift it well enough to get a white flour, but by putting it into a soaker overnight, and baking with it the next morning, there's no better way to preserve the vitamins :)

[Guts]

I wanted to add this to my post but no edit:unsure:
KASL
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