A Better Way To: Buy Flour | Fresh P

There’s more to buying flour than just price. Do you want bleached or unbleached? Bromated? Bread? All Purpose or Cake? What’s the difference? Bleached, unbleached. Definitely unbleached.

Gluten is protein. When you need bread the protein strands begin to form, this gives bread it’s structure, but it’s also what makes muffins and cakes tough. So here’s the protein levels in the four most commonly available types of white flour:

Cake flour 7-9% protein
Pastry flour 9-10%
All Purpose flour 12%
Bread flour 13-14%

The more gluten, the more chew and the more structure, but this is not a hard fast rule, technique is very important when making bread. For instance many pizza cooks in the US prefer high protein bread flour, but DOP pizza in Italy requires that bakers use double 00 flour with is very low protein, around 8.5%.

This is why you don’t want to buy flours that have been ‘improved”: http://www.kingarthurflour.com/professional/bromate.html

VIDEO LINKS
Artisan No Knead Bread http://goo.gl/gCj9sL
Why Use Baker’s Percentages http://goo.gl/8WFQfn
Homemade Biscuits From Scratch http://goo.gl/jJJwfu
Pizza Margherita w/ Wranglerstar http://goo.gl/iI3WMA
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/
http://giustos.com/

PRODUCTS USED IN THIS VIDEO
King Arthur organic all purpose flour http://goo.gl/9gilC9
King Arthur Sir Lancelot high gluten flour
Italian “00” flour http://goo.gl/U0JvKZ
Proofing bucket http://goo.gl/OdG4sM
w/ Lid http://goo.gl/0IS2Wz
Stainless steel bench scraper http://goo.gl/OSY4EO
8” banneton proofing basket http://goo.gl/VyH54t
Mure & Peyrot Bread Scoring Lame http://goo.gl/ZeEC6U
Saf instant yeast http://goo.gl/8mGp1Y
Escali kitchen scale (my favorite) http://goo.gl/1FqtyJ
Liquid measuring beaker http://goo.gl/6t4aCi
KitchenAid Professional 600 Series 6-Quart Stand Mixer http://goo.gl/8BHjxl
MY FAVORITE BOOKS ON BREAD & BAKING
Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza http://goo.gl/qNRFk8
The Pizza Bible: The World's Favorite Pizza Styles, from Neapolitan, Deep-Dish, Wood-Fired, Sicilian, Calzones and Focaccia to New York, New Haven, Detroit, and more http://goo.gl/WZRvr7
The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread http://goo.gl/GU8kzd
The Mozza Cookbook: Recipes from Los Angeles's Favorite Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria http://goo.gl/aknIhc

MUSIC
Waltz of the Flowers by Tchaikovsky

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