Okay. Where did the flour go?
 

I’m actually just as perplexed with the flour shortage.

Did the panic make everyone crave carbs in the form of home baked things? I typically use flour to make a roux. I don’t bake. However, I am hoping to use spring onions for a Chinese onion pancake. I only have bread flour. I’ll try it for sure. AP flour is nonexistent.

Everyone needing bread? Hmmm, a virus. Oh, I know homemade BISCUITS! Ironically, the bread shelves are fully stocked. Flour? Just dusty shelves. Everyone going full “little house on the prairie”? Sliced bread is no good?

Cindy reports "no yeast"...so, guess we'll try to make some sourdough starter?

Vash - I don't know why but it seems most of my friends and family are posting homemade breads.

pwd - beer bread doesn't use yeast. My wife made a batch a few weeks ago before she found yeast, it was pretty good.

Aww crap. My onion pancake needs instant yeast.

over here a lot of people are either bored home, locked down, and now baking loads of bread and cakes.

or worried bout fresh bread because they think the fresh bakery will at some point touch the bread with his hands and then that causes corona infection...
Same reason why all the premade bakeoff at home bread was sold out along with the TP for quite some time (supplies on everything have now caught up here)

They’re hoarding. I’ll bet most of it sits in pantries until the bugs eat it. Same with yeast. The only place to get bread flour around here is the GB market. They only sell flour in 25 lb bags. Yeast goes by the pound.
Ironically the bread shelves are full of ready to eat bread.

Spring Onions, green garlic and ramps are usually found in farmers markets but this year is different- almost impossible to find. With the hoarding of beans, pasta and flour, I hope the food shelters will have plenty of these items come Christmas time.

A bit of irony here...with all of this baking going on more folks will end up being obese, knowing that this (obesity) factor presents as a major statistical risk of facing more serious consequences from covid.

Yep... and yep... It's been the same here for the last 6 weeks or more. Flour and Yeast are almost as hard to come by as TP, hand sanitizer, and disinfectant sprays.

Mom made sourdough starter, has some beer bread recipes I believe too.

Have seen flour again, and there is rice, but still no yeast

FB II has been baking bread for the usual reason but he told me that the fragrance of the bread has helped keep FBIII from torturing everyone in the house! ;)

It's going to get worse.

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/food-supply-chain-breaking-tyson-foods-chairman-claims-plant-coronavirus-closures

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.

When the panic buying started, it was like they had announced a hurricane. No milk or bread. Water in short supply (water?). And the Toilet paper, etc.

With the bread all gone, people bought flour to make their own. I guess they did not know they needed yeast, because there were plenty of jars of yeast.

The only flour left was the high dollar stuff (Gold Medal). I pulled out my old (28.5 years!) bread maker and made some. And it was better than the store bought cake (batter) "bread". So we are no longer buying bread. I run a load every few days. And with the store brand flour back in the store, The bread is about 1/4 the cost of store bought stuff. And no real work with the bread maker.

I expect people have figured this out. Better bread, less money. Things "might" return to normal when this is over. Maybe.

Next stop: home made flour tortillas! Anyone have a good recipe?

My wife is always baking something, making some fancy dessert, etc. She has been complaining for several years about the ever-shrinking baking section of supermarkets. In pre-covid times home baking has been on the decline for a long time. Even the cake mixes are smaller and fewer on the shelves. So now, there is lots of interest in baking and bread making. No baking stuff to be had. Empty shelves. No parchment paper even. She's been trying to get a bag of light brown domino sugar for fudge, she swears it's the only brand that doesn't get all granular. Down to 2 packs of out of date yeast. Missed that one coming!

I ran out of Rapid Rise yeast for my pizza dough so am having to use the regular which I still have about 6 packs of. I proof it a while to get it going good before adding it to the flour. Makes for a thicker fluffy crust than I am used to. I should run out of flour, both whole wheat and white that I mix 50/50, about the time I run out of yeast. Then I will just take a brush and a zip lock bag to the grocery store to collect all the spilled flour off the empty shelves. :D

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Nothing...you fixed it :)

^^^ Do I get a prize...maybe some bread?

No dough....