Prompt: Bread

[runpunkrun]

Bread. It's the gluten-free elephant in the room. Do you have a no-fail recipe? A favorite loaf pan? A commercial GF bread that does the job? Come tell us about it.

To fill this prompt, you can:

1. Slide into the comments of this post and share a link to a recipe and why you like it.
2. Write up a favorite recipe and post it to the comm.
3. Post a review of a related product or cookbook to the comm.
4. Try someone's recipe and reply to their post (or comment) with any changes you made and how it turned out.

This prompt lasts all month, but it's only for inspiration and not a requirement. You can still post to the comm if it isn't related to the prompt.

Here's what's going on in the comments:

• writedragon on Canyon Hills Bakehouse breads
• harmonic_tabby on Canyon Hills & Franz
• loligo on Trader Joe's GF Whole Grain bread
• nerakrose on Genius triple seeded farm house loaf
• runpunkrun on Toaster bags

Comments

[writedragon]

Canyon Hills Bakehouse breads are consistently good, especially toasted. They don't fall apart and stay soft. The downside is that they can be gummy if too damp (hence the toasting recommendation).

Other than quickbreads like muffins, I've pretty much given up on baking my own gf loaf bread since there are actually companies that seem decent at it. That said, I'm interested to see what others have found or recipes. I live in hope!

agreement

[harmonic_tabby]

Canyon Bakehouse out of Colorado makes very good gluten free bread AND bagels. I have ordered directly from them and my husband has also carried home loaves from Costco for my eating pleasure.

I've also had some great loaves from Franz (Franz Family Bakeries) who are in the 'regular' bread business. They've branched out to gluten free and I think it shows that their expertise carried over...gotta love the cinnamon raisin bread!!

Several of the 'mainstream' gluten free companies also make nice loaves of bread (and occasionally bagels). I have eaten and would purchase again from Rudi's, Udi's and Schar.

I am living in the USA Pacific Northwest and Franz is a regional company. Probably other companies with perfectly good gluten free bread on the East Coast I'll never taste because they're regional and it's unlikely I'll ever get to Europe to try those brands, either. So I continue to order online and buy from the local grocery store.

There is a Trader Joe's not far away but I've never tried their gluten free bread so now I have a New Year's Resolution, heehee.

Tabs

[loligo]

We moved to a rural area 20 years ago, and I had to give up shopping at Trader Joe's. (The closest one is now a two hour drive away.) So one of the things I enjoy about going home for the holidays is that my mom always buys me Trader Joe's GF Whole Grain bread. Aside from the smaller loaf size, it is almost indistinguishable from wheat bread. Our local natural foods co-op has tons of options for alternative diets & food allergies, but the one thing they don't have is a decent GF sandwich bread, so I really enjoy that TJ fix once a year.

(I just haven't had the time to experiment with making GF bread at home, but maybe if someone here posts a recipe that they swear by, I will give it a shot!)

[nerakrose]

my favourite GF bread here in the UK (so far, haven't tried them all) is the Genius triple seeded farm house loaf. I don't often eat it plain (if I do it's it's a tuna sandwich) but it's great toasted with eggs and in grilled cheese sandwiches. Genius also does a plain white sandwich loaf that's great for grilled cheese sandwiches but for plain toasted I don't like the flavour of it much - so for stuff where you're not supposed to taste the bread much I'd use that, probably.

I don't eat a lot of bread since going gf and I learned to eat without my old staples (bread and pasta). Used to be I could eat a loaf of bread in two-three days, these days a loaf will last me two weeks...

Toaster bags!

[runpunkrun]

I just learned about toaster bags, which are little reusable bags you slip your slice of bread into and then put the whole dang thing in the toaster so as to avoid any gluten crumbs touching your bread if you're using a shared toaster.

I read about them here: 9 Gluten-Free Hacks Every Celiac Should Know. It's hack #8, so scroll down.