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Post by pancakes on Apr 4, 2020 7:36:37 GMT
We can’t find yeast here either.
I love good bread and am usually purchasing loaves, but now that we are stuck indoors, I am baking more. I have baked yeast breads in the past, but it’s not something I did regularly simply due to ease of access to good bread.
I am not too surprised that it’s hard to find now. I know plenty of people who bake, though it’s usually cakes or other pastries. I am assuming they are also baking bread these days as well.
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Post by pyccku on Apr 4, 2020 7:39:59 GMT
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Post by gar on Apr 4, 2020 7:42:03 GMT
Just had an email from the supermarket detailing substitutions and items missing from the order I'll collect today - no yeast - again
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Post by Lindarina on Apr 4, 2020 7:54:01 GMT
I’m baking a lot these days. Yesterday, started my own sourdough because I will be running out of yeast eventually. I’ve never baked with sourdough so I expect some trial and error before I get the hang of it.
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Post by gsquaredmom on Apr 4, 2020 8:34:00 GMT
I have a bread machine that I don’t use often. Over a month ago, when I was quietly buying a few extra of this and that to prepare for this, I bought a strip of 3 yeast packets and bread flour, just in case bread became hard to get in the stores. Have not had to use it yet, but people home all day trying to figure out what to do might be.
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Post by catmom on Apr 4, 2020 8:48:41 GMT
We've been making our own pizza dough for pizza and movie night. DH found out you can make yeast so he's super excited to try it.
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Post by miominmio on Apr 4, 2020 9:46:36 GMT
I bake often, corona or not, so I always have yeast at home. It’s the only thing that is impossible to find in stores these days, so I might make a sourdough starter soon.
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Post by peaname on Apr 4, 2020 11:22:27 GMT
I buy yeast by the pound at Costco for my bread machine. It’s grinding out a loaf everyday now to feed five people lunch. We use a lot of peanut butter too. I simply will not make special lunches.
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Post by carhoch on Apr 4, 2020 11:32:07 GMT
I always have yeast in my freezer,I use SAF yeast in 16oz pack it keep at least one year in the freezer in a mason jar . You can find it at amazon it’s 3X more expensive then usual but it’s available.
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Post by scrapcat on Apr 4, 2020 11:49:15 GMT
I always have yeast, flour and ample baking supplies on hand. I bake and cook from scratch regularly, garden, preserve & can. I’m 37. It was how I was raised. And my father is the baker & cook, so taught me a lot. He buys yeast in large quantities and gives them to me & my brother. I keep in an air tight jar in back of fridge.
I have seen limits on flour, but my store still had the store brand, no King Arthur though.
I believe there is a “beer bread” style that doesn’t require yeast bcz you get it from the beer. Also there are yeast less style breads, more rustic. And making & using a starter can help. I was on that kick for a couple years, so looks like I have time to get back to it!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2020 12:06:11 GMT
I have never bought yeast. The supermarkets here have everything well stocked including bread, seriously, things would have to be a lot worse than this before I start making things from scratch.
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Post by sabrinae on Apr 4, 2020 12:34:23 GMT
I ordered yeast from Sam's. I had a couple of strips at home, but now that my culinary student needs to do her baking labs at home, we knew that probably wasn't enough. I couldn't find it anywhere around here, and Amazon was no help. I decided to check Sam's, and lo and behold, they had a package of 2 one-pound bags for $4.98 with free shipping. However, you couldn't just order one--the minimum order for that item was 2! I didn't need 2! I ordered anyway since that was the only way I could get it. What in the world am I going to do with 4 pounds of yeast? My mom will take one package when I see her again, and I have offered up the other two packages to a couple of co-workers and will leave it on the porch for them if they want to pick it up. It was a great deal--$2.50 for a pound of yeast beats the cost of buying the little strips. My bread machine is going to be busy! Depending on the type of yeast it is you can freeze it. I buy a one pound bag of yeast every year from King Arthur Flour and store it in the freezer. It lasts great that way.
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Post by sabrinae on Apr 4, 2020 12:38:23 GMT
I regularly bake but usually only make bread a couple of times a year because I work full time and it’s not unusual for that work to spill into the weekend. Now I’m working from home except one day a week. I have more time to bake bread. I have yeast because I do regularly bake and buy it a pound at a time. But, flour has been next to impossible to find. I managed to order a 25 pound bag from a bakery supply online so I’ll be ok for a while.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Apr 4, 2020 12:55:54 GMT
I totally mis-read your title. I thought it said you can make yeast, out of stock. Vegetable stock? Chicken stock? I have plenty of that. How do you use it to make yeast? I swear my brain is turning into mashed potato.
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Post by Lindarina on Apr 4, 2020 12:56:12 GMT
I have never bought yeast. The supermarkets here have everything well stocked including bread, seriously, things would have to be a lot worse than this before I start making things from scratch. For me, it’s not about the supermarkets being stocked or not. There is no shortage of bread where I live. It’s about not wanting to potentially expose myself to the virus more than absolutely necessary. And I don’t want 2 weeks worth of bread filling up my freezer either😂 Besides, I love making food from scratch!
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Post by SockMonkey on Apr 4, 2020 12:58:42 GMT
So many people I know are baking more! Including sourdough, which doesn't require yeast because you do the starter and make your own.
But like, the comment about "women these days not knowing how to bake with yeast?" Uhhh... We have the Internet. It's science, but it's not rocket science.
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Post by pierkiss on Apr 4, 2020 13:05:16 GMT
My husband and I are doing (mostly) keto. But our children are not. They still like/want to eat bread. Especially pizza. 😄. Thank god my husband had enough foresight to grab a very large jar at the beginning of this. We’ve made pizza dough several times now. We have a fantastic recipe by Mike Isabella and it always turns out great. Bread loaves are hit or miss at the store. We have sandwich bread now, but should we run out I’m sure we can make some more.
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Post by SockMonkey on Apr 4, 2020 13:06:41 GMT
My husband and I are doing (mostly) keto. But our children are not. They still like/want to eat bread. Especially pizza. 😄. Thank god my husband had enough foresight to grab a very large jar at the beginning of this. We’ve made pizza dough several times now. We have a fantastic recipe by Mike Isabella and it always turns out great. Bread loaves are hit or miss at the store. We have sandwich bread now, but should we run out I’m sure we can make some more. Can you post the pizza dough recipe? I'd like to try it!
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Post by pierkiss on Apr 4, 2020 13:11:30 GMT
My husband and I are doing (mostly) keto. But our children are not. They still like/want to eat bread. Especially pizza. 😄. Thank god my husband had enough foresight to grab a very large jar at the beginning of this. We’ve made pizza dough several times now. We have a fantastic recipe by Mike Isabella and it always turns out great. Bread loaves are hit or miss at the store. We have sandwich bread now, but should we run out I’m sure we can make some more. Can you post the pizza dough recipe? I'd like to try it! Let me get some coffee in me and then I will. You might have to remind me how to stick a picture on here though. 🤣
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Post by epeanymous on Apr 4, 2020 13:19:56 GMT
I usually work f/t outside of the house. I am now suddenly home all day. I haven’t baked bread since I was in college, but, yes, now that I am home constantly, I am baking constantly too. I ordered a big bag of yeast at the beginning of this, and I think I was able to get it because Seattle was early to close.
Our stores have been low on flour and often are out of butter and/or eggs, which I am guessing is also baking-related. I can also tell you that my Instagram feed reflects that everyone is a baker now.
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Post by SockMonkey on Apr 4, 2020 13:20:16 GMT
Can you post the pizza dough recipe? I'd like to try it! Let me get some coffee in me and then I will. You might have to remind me how to stick a picture on here though. 🤣 LOL, yes absolutely coffee first!!! Take your time. Really, I have LITERALLY NOTHING BUT TIME.
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Post by ameslou on Apr 4, 2020 13:20:17 GMT
This!!
I've thought about making bread with my teenagers. But - my 16yo is much more interested in gardening .. which I enjoy more anyway ..
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Post by littlemama on Apr 4, 2020 13:20:27 GMT
I finally got a little bit of yeast, but still no bread flour.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2020 13:25:12 GMT
I have never bought yeast. The supermarkets here have everything well stocked including bread, seriously, things would have to be a lot worse than this before I start making things from scratch. For me, it’s not about the supermarkets being stocked or not. There is no shortage of bread where I live. It’s about not wanting to potentially expose myself to the virus more than absolutely necessary. And I don’t want 2 weeks worth of bread filling up my freezer either😂 Besides, I love making food from scratch! We go to the supermarket once a week, it's the only place we're going.
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Post by LisaDV on Apr 4, 2020 13:36:35 GMT
I hadn't made bread in a long while. DS usually makes our pizza dough and occasionally a bread or GF rolls for DD.
But I wanted to serve bakery bread with a meal that first week we were isolating. Normally I'd just run to the store. Instead I made it. Then I didn't get sandwich bread on my order. So I made sandwich bread. (I didn't get it on my 2nd order either, so I'll be making it again). DD will be out of GF sandwich bread by the end of this week and I'll be making her bread too. Luckily I bought some yeast the last time I bulk bought GF flours for DD (3 all purpose GF flours, 3 GF baking mixes) which was February. Of course, if I really knew how things were going to explode supply wise and how much more I'd be using it, I probably would have bought a lot more. I would have bought bread flour and lots more AP flour for the rest of us too. I didn't have bread flour and had 2 extra bags of AP flour which goes quick when your baking bread.
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Post by kitbop on Apr 4, 2020 13:39:37 GMT
We bought an extra jar a couple of weeks ago. If we had to go into isolation (I work at a hospital, so this is likely down the road) my family NEEDS it's bread and I can bake. We use it normally for cinnamon buns and pizza dough. I no longer have a bread machine because with the volume of bread my boys eat, it just isn't worth making it. But it's fun and rewarding if you are sitting at home!
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Post by Darcy Collins on Apr 4, 2020 13:56:05 GMT
My husband does homemade pizza dough regularly, so I was hunting for it last week. It was tough to find. My daughter is baking continuously, so we're going through tons of flour.
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Post by jenjie on Apr 4, 2020 14:01:54 GMT
Those look delicious Steph! Please share your recipe! Not Steph but Pioneer Woman’s cinnamon rolls are AMAAAZZZZZING. Thank you! Seeing these cinnamon rolls made me wonder whose recipe I made that was so good. PW is it!
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Post by huskermom98 on Apr 4, 2020 14:03:59 GMT
DH has always made bread,cinnamon rolls, and pizza crust whenever he has time. So naturally when all of this went south he let me know that he almost out of yeast and could I pick some up at the store...nope, nothing there! He went to 3 or 4 stores after work and finally found some. I saw a jar last week so I went ahead and picked up that one too (although I might have to look into bigger sizes when this is over, never thought to look beyond the jar on the shelf). He's still going into work so of course he hasn't had much time to bake...
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Post by rainangel on Apr 4, 2020 14:07:46 GMT
Can't find yeast, but no shortage of flour yet. I bake several times a week anyway, so yeast is definitely a staple. I am rationing it. I'm not baking just for fun right now.
Baking with yeast was definitely something I had to try and fail at a fair few times before I got the hang of it. I am very curious about sourdough baking, so I'll be looking into that over Easter. Let me know if you have a great beginner's resource for baking with sourdough!
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