What Are We Eating!

[Segilla]

I bought a below half price Hovis sliced wholemeal loaf specially to use to make a bread pudding.
I spread out about 2/3 of it in the kitchen to dry it out a bit and was astonished at the stink of vinegar / ammonia which arose. When was the last time you read the list of ingredients/ chemicals in packaged bread?

Needing more, I dried out two further slices in the micro and it took 3 x 1 minutes blasts to do that because they contained so much water.

[murraymints]

if you don't want it . don't buy it...simple..

[pastafreak]

Bake your own.

[AlwaysConfused]

I agree Pasta. Baking your own bread is so satisfying. And the smell, oooh, gorgeous.

[B00]

If I read the ingredients in the foods I bought, i'd never eat anything at all!

Hovis bread's ok, though not as good as good ol' Warbies, but at less than half price and only being used for a bread and butter pudding, it'd have been alright wouldn't it?

[whiskeryron]

We have not bought shop bread for years. Panasonic Breadmaker + packs of Breadmix from Sainsbury's, nothing to it. Smashing bread mmm.

WR.

[woofgang]

I buy hovis wholemeal regularly and it doesn't smell of anything but bread.....

[pastafreak]

There wasn't any mould on it,was there? That would cause a disagreeable odour.

[woofgang]

just a thought, I believe there is now a version that has rye flour in it with a very similar wrapping. To me rye bread smells very ammoniacal and sour.

[Segilla]

woofgang, the loaf I wrote about was normal Hovis, not ryebread, not mouldy. Maybe my sense of smell is more acute than yours. I no longer have the package but believe that spirit vinegar was near the top of the list of additives.

pastafreak. I can't imagine it is worthwhile to bake a loaf specially to make bread pudding.

Always confused. I do bake my own bread from time to time and as you say, the aroma is beautiful but I'm always disappointed by the bread's flavour. Made with fast action yeast, I imagine there has been a trade-off and taste loses out.

[woofgang]

http://www.hovisbakery.co.uk/our-range/wholemeal/wholemeal

no vinegar that I can see

[TheHangman]

Food is probably the greatest commodity in the world we all have to eat. Therefore like cars it is prime for making profit and ideal for maximizing profit by additions. More and more people are turning to grow your own, cook your own and smaller outlets that offer cleaner more natural produce. We may yet save the humble bacon sarnie.

[Segilla]

woofgang. It could well be that I misdescribed the exact type of loaf. Possibly it was

http://www.hovisbakery.co.uk/our-range/original-wheatgerm

which does contain vinegar. But I'm sure mine had spirit vinegar in it. I think it was bought from Tesco - so maybe it was a loaf made by them using Hovis flour ++++++

I'll have a look at the packages when next in my local T.

[Matheous-2]

The last Tesco wholemeal we bought tasted sour- even after toasting.....won't be buying that again.
The hangman has the correct way to go- bake your own!!