I have baked my own bread for thirty years. This past weekend, due to
scheduling, I bought a loaf of bread from the grocery bakery.

On initial inspection, the loaf looked beautiful. Nice Wheat Bread
with a glazed top...oatmeal pieces on top. The price was 2.14 for
the loaf and I relinquished to the purchase.

After getting it home and slicing into it, it looked beautiful. Made
sandwiches with the bread and it actually has NO identifying flavor.
Just nothing. I was very disappointed. Next morning, lackluster
flavored toast. The Smart Balance spread was its only salvation.

Have you encountered this was any grocery products?

"Mr. Bill" > wrote in message
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>I have baked my own bread for thirty years. This past weekend, due to
> scheduling, I bought a loaf of bread from the grocery bakery.
>
> On initial inspection, the loaf looked beautiful. Nice Wheat Bread
> with a glazed top...oatmeal pieces on top. The price was 2.14 for
> the loaf and I relinquished to the purchase.
>
> After getting it home and slicing into it, it looked beautiful. Made
> sandwiches with the bread and it actually has NO identifying flavor.
> Just nothing. I was very disappointed. Next morning, lackluster
> flavored toast. The Smart Balance spread was its only salvation.
>
> Have you encountered this was any grocery products?
>
>

$2.14 for a one pound loaf of wheat bread is a very fair price, around here
it would cost a buck more.

I assume you mean with any grocery *baked* products. No, not really...
depends a lot on the store, some bake decent bread, but could be a lot
better. My main complaint with all baked products from any store around
here, even stand alone bakerys and pizzarias, is that they don't bake them
enough, to me they're raw... these hillybillys trim off the crust and won't
eat the ends/heels... they actually swoon orgasmic over raw cookie dough,
blech! My tenant is forever bringing me stuff she bakes, especially quick
bread... it's always much too under baked for me... the very centers of her
pumpkin bread is actually liquidy and the crust is ecru colored and soft as
a tubesteak bun, practically totally raw... I even tried rebaking it once,
made it worse. She spent a lot on ingredients, lots of nuts and seeds, but
I couldn't eat it. What to do, rather than embarrass her I thanked her and
raved how good it was, but I have to watch my carbs so next time bring me
just a slice.. but later as it was becoming dark out I'd toss it out the
window on the opposite side where she couldn't see, the critters seem to
like it... once the birds start in it's gone in a few minutes.

Baked goods flavor always improves when baked to a proper doneness... maybe
your groceries underbake like mine. And their muffins are the worst, they
use paper liners, there's no crust, those are NOT muffins, they're
fercocktah cupcakes, lousy cupcakes because they don't bake them enough, I
don't buy them anymore... I don't buy any baked goods that are baked in a
paper liner. Whenever I slice store bought bread and it makes my clean
bread knife all gooey I just know it's raw in the center. Only the Price
Shopper markets arond here have pretty good bread, the one north of here
better than the one south. The small market in town bakes bread that's
inedible... better off with packaged bread there.

In article >, bb0929
@gmail.com says...
>
> I have baked my own bread for thirty years. This past weekend, due to
> scheduling, I bought a loaf of bread from the grocery bakery.
>
> On initial inspection, the loaf looked beautiful. Nice Wheat Bread
> with a glazed top...oatmeal pieces on top. The price was 2.14 for
> the loaf and I relinquished to the purchase.
>
> After getting it home and slicing into it, it looked beautiful. Made
> sandwiches with the bread and it actually has NO identifying flavor.
> Just nothing. I was very disappointed. Next morning, lackluster
> flavored toast. The Smart Balance spread was its only salvation.
>
> Have you encountered this was any grocery products?

The market bakeries tend to use less salt in the process.

On Apr 1, 8:16�am, Mr. Bill > wrote:
> I have baked my own bread for thirty years. �This past weekend, due to
> scheduling, I bought a loaf of bread from the grocery bakery. �
>
> On initial inspection, the loaf looked beautiful. � � Nice Wheat Bread
> with a glazed top...oatmeal pieces on top. � The price was 2.14 for
> the loaf and I relinquished to the purchase. �
>
> After getting it home and slicing into it, it looked beautiful. � Made
> sandwiches with the bread and it actually has NO identifying flavor.
> Just nothing. � �I was very disappointed. � �Next morning, lackluster
> flavored toast. � �The Smart Balance spread was its only salvation. �
>
> Have you encountered this was any grocery products? �

The bakers working in many, if not all, supermarket bakeries aren't
professionally trained bakers. They're just regular employees who
either volunteered for the job or had the job thrust upon them. Some
of them who care about putting out a good product and know a little
something about baking are actually pretty good bakers. Then there
are others who only care about getting the job done as quickly as
possible