Bread Flour Versus All Purpose Flour

Marsha — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:25:28 +0000

Many people use all purpose flour in bread making instead of bread flour. I started wondering what the difference is. It turns out that the difference is gluten. Gluten is a type of protein found in flour. The more gluten in the flour the heavier the bread.

Bread flour has more gluten than all purpose flour. However the amount of gluten in particular brands of flour varies. In general, all purpose flour has a gluten content of 9% to 12%. Bread flour typically has a gluten range of 10% to 13%. Note the overlapping areas.

If you’re using all purpose flour in your bread machine and it works for you, that’s great. It may be that your brand of flour is in the upper, and perhaps overlapping, range of the gluten levels.

Here’s more information on flour:

Flour for the Bread Machine

Marsha — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:28:57 +0000

As you might guess, we make a lot of bread at our house. We get all of the flour for our bread at Costco. Costco sells it in 50 pound bags. (Flour procurement is a job for the Man of the House as I’m not sure I could manage such a heavy, unwieldy item.) While we love our bread, it does take us months to go through the entire 50 pounds. So what do we do in the meantime?

It fits into two five-gallon buckets with no problem. These are food grade buckets that store the flour with no loss of quality that we’ve noticed.

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Bread Flour Versus All Purpose Flour

Flour for the Bread Machine