Okay. Where did the flour go?

[TimT]

No yeast, no problem...

Yeast is in the air all around us, its on the milled flour ( if you can get any)

Harvest your own.. make sourdough starter, granted a sourdough starter wont play nice with desserts or pastries (most)..but you can make an awesome pizza dough... just make a high hydration/long ferment dough...

A bonus is that every geographical areas sourdough have slightly different tastes..

I just have to wonder did several of folks go buy huge amounts of flower and yeast, or is it suddenly millions of people buy it that had never bought it before.

This, I know its the case here on Lawn Guyland that many people who never bake were buying flour,yeast, etc.. The homesteader/self sufficiency ethic is small here..mostly...

I've been baking, curing meats, brewing ( i'm learning how to make cheese) for many years because it is therapeutic to me..and my friends and family benefit....

I recently made some pepperoni with Venison my friend harvested, and pork from a small hippy back the the earth farm near my place in Vermont..

Hormel=no way..

[sammyg2]

[aigel]

It has been tough buying bread at the store, or so I hear. We only do home delivery.

People bake at home. I ordered a couple big bags (one white, one whole wheat) at a bakery supply store and am done chasing after 5 lb bags online for a while. We have always baked bread once a week, but with more hungry mouths at home to feed it is 2-3 times a week now and you can add sweet breads, cakes, pancakes etc. to it. So, usage rate is definitely up and there won't be any bugs eating our supplies, for sure.

I don't think everyone will be obese as a result of baking at home. Will people ad half a cup of sugar to their bread dough? Because that's what you'll find in your average store bought crap.

That Tyson announcement is self serving. There is no food supply issue if the company acts responsibly. All these huge plants pay very little, so everyone bunks at home and they cram them in the line without making any adjustments for COVID. And frankly, if there is no puss chicken for sale, I could care less ...

G

[red-beard]

Costco & SAMS are not taking back toilet paper, sanitizer, rice or flour that people bought in the panic.

[RWebb]

in answer to the OP, "where did all the flour go?"

... has no one else noticed that stress baking is common in women?

[Tobra]

Food supply thing could turn into a big deal.

Pigs for example, can only be so big before they can't be processed in the regular way. When they are ready for slaughter, they need to be processed to make room for the next round of livestock growing up. There is going to be a massive amount of meat wasted if the meat packing plants stay closed very long. It happened during the great depression, which was a ripple compared to the economic tsunami brewing now

[aigel]

I agree that we are not out of the woods on food supply chain. Especially on highly perishable items like meat and fruits / vegetables. Will we run out of flour, rice, beans etc.? Probably not, and even if the supply chain there would break down, there is a way to getting the bare necessities out to people. Of course, what is challenging nowadays is that many people don't even know how to cook from scratch.

You also can't shortcut the supply chain. If I wanted pork, I couldn't just go pick up a live hog at the rancher, even though I would know what to do with a live hog ... The ranches that serve my area are probably thousands of miles away.

I still don't like the Tyson statement, it deals with their problem only but it will cause another run on grocery stores. I bet you money, chicken is sold out as we speak.

G

[pwd72s]

Tyson foods...friend of the Clintons. Is it any surprise they manipulate the public?

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by RWebb

in answer to the OP, "where did all the flour go?"

... has no one else noticed that stress baking is common in women?

There is that..whenever a big storm threatens, Cindy heads for the kitchen.

That said, she's always been baking something or other. So, the newcomers messing things up for the people who always baked. I agree with the earlier post...lots of soon to be expired yeast being stockpiled throughout the country.

[RWebb]

you know there are a lot of worse behaviors in response to stress...