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The junk we eat that passes for bread.

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  • #62
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    The whole of western culture has gone for style over substance including the food trade .We have generations today that have never known the taste of a lot of the foods that we knew in the fifties .I have had deja-vu recalls of tomatoes and apples and we simply hav'nt got food like that anymore .The decline was imperceptible over decades to many people and older people were blaming themselves at times but the food has been decreasing in quality for years with intensive production methods and wily and very clever marketing .


  • #63
    Going Forward
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,224 ✭✭✭Going Forward


    The Holy Grail of a decent 800g slice pan for less than a euro doesnt exist then?

    I do love the home made style brown breads, such as McCambridges etc, unfortunately its usually gone (devoured) in one sitting!!!!!!!!!!!


  • #64
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    I have never met anyone who doesnt love a fresh Brennans bread , I find this thread amazing ,
    Ok mcambridges and sour dough bread and stuff are nice but you need a white sliced for sambos and making your kitchen smell nice.
    Monday mornin go to Dunnes and get a Brennans pan.
    On topic : If you are looking for a white sliced for cheap , you wont get a good one , Id rather have ham and cheese with mayonaise without bread than a 99cent tesco white sliced sandwhich.
    Its like cardboard.
    How much does baking your own bread cost . Like for each pan how much would you spend on ingrediants.


  • #65
    Sergeant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    Going Forward wrote: »
    I do love the home made style brown breads, such as McCambridges etc, unfortunately its usually gone (devoured) in one sitting!!!!!!!!!!!

    I wouldn't classify McCambridges bread as being anything approaching home style.


  • #66
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    cloptrop wrote: »
    I have never met anyone who doesnt love a fresh Brennans bread
    I don't particularly - and definitely not the white. Bleh.


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  • #67
    huskerdu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭huskerdu


    cloptrop wrote: »
    I have never met anyone who doesnt love a fresh Brennans bread ,
    How much does baking your own bread cost . Like for each pan how much would you spend on ingrediants.

    If you like commercial factory produced processed white bread, Brennans is one of the best brands.

    I do eat it sometimes, but, like a bit of people here, I would consider it a very poor substitute for bread made by the traditional method, either at home or in a bakery.


    As for the price, here is my estimation.

    2kg of strong flour is about €2.
    a packet of 7 sachets of instant yeast is 99c.

    This means that the ingredients for a 500g homemade loaf of bread is 57c.
    The electricity cost is hard to estimate accurately, but making an guess based on the calculator on the esb website, it seems to be about 20/30c.

    If you buy the ingredients in bulk, they will be a lot cheaper and you can use the oven for multiple things at the same time.


  • #68
    al28283
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283


    cloptrop wrote: »
    Whats wrong with Brennans , todays best bread today , Im shocked

    maybe so, but Pat the Baker is first with freshness. So fresh it's famous!


  • #69
    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,418 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    huskerdu wrote: »
    As for the price, here is my estimation.

    2kg of strong flour is about €2.
    a packet of 7 sachets of instant yeast is 99c.

    This means that the ingredients for a 500g homemade loaf of bread is 57c.
    The electricity cost is hard to estimate accurately, but making an guess based on the calculator on the esb website, it seems to be about 20/30c.
    Electricity usage is actually very low .. the main usage is during baking which takes about 1 hour, but the element is only on for part of that time because of the thermostat. I attached an energy monitor to mine once and I seem to remember it only costing about 5c, certainly not as much as 20/30c anyway.


  • #70
    huskerdu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭huskerdu


    Alun wrote: »
    Electricity usage is actually very low .. the main usage is during baking which takes about 1 hour, but the element is only on for part of that time because of the thermostat. I attached an energy monitor to mine once and I seem to remember it only costing about 5c, certainly not as much as 20/30c anyway.

    Interesting, thanks. I went with the estimate on the ebs website and I thought it seemed very high.


  • #71
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    So your looking at close to a euro to make the bread yourself and then at least a euro in manpower , like if you did an hours overtime and just bought a loaf of bread on your way home surely youd profit.


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  • #72
    Melendez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭Melendez


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  • #73
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,075 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    I bought a brown bread pan in Dunnes over the weekend,own brand. It was stale 15 minutes after opening it and tasted like paper. They do a own brand batch which I find better than the Brennans batch for 99c.


  • #74
    murphyebass
    Registered Users Posts: 5,553 ✭✭✭murphyebass


    I make bread a bit from scratch no machine. Soda bread mixture can be made in 5-10 minutes then just baked for 40 mins. Eg I made Guinness,apple and cheese version yesterday before work. Other breads like whites crusty loaf are a more time consuming Sunday type thing as it has to rise twice, etc. I haven't bought a loaf of bread in at least a year now though. Brennans etc are all full of rubbish and taste terrible in comparison to home made.


  • #75
    huskerdu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭huskerdu


    cloptrop wrote: »
    So your looking at close to a euro to make the bread yourself and then at least a euro in manpower , like if you did an hours overtime and just bought a loaf of bread on your way home surely youd profit.

    I do it because I like doing it and the result is fantastic.
    The effort is minimal, and because I like doing it, it doesn't feel like work.

    If you don't like baking, I am not trying to convince you to try it.
    If you don't like homemade bread, then, again, I am not bothered.


  • #76
    blatantrereg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭blatantrereg


    Sean's quarter brown soda bread. Ingredients: Wholemeal flour, buttermilk, Bicarbonate of soda, water, salt. Homemade in a bakery, bougt in a petrol station at a reasonable price. Goes off in about three days, not kept in a firdge or whatever. Really very nice indeed though.


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