Whole wheat, where to buy?
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I'd get out of the city and start asking for wheat farmers. YOu might as well directly pay the hand that feeds you.
Cut out all the middle fluff.
What is it that you want to use it for? Wheats, genetically, are in three groups with different cooking/baking characteristics.
I don't care for the primitive Group I wheats, as trendy as they may be.
I use Group II wheats, durum in particular as a high gluten pasta flour = the best in the world.
I use Group III wheats with modest gluten content for breads and other baking.
I don't need low gluten cake flours, I refuse to try "self-raising" flours = that's what yeast is for.
I have light & dark rye flours, corn flour (which is NOT corn starch), rice flours and quinoa.
Cut out all the middle fluff.
What is it that you want to use it for? Wheats, genetically, are in three groups with different cooking/baking characteristics.
I don't care for the primitive Group I wheats, as trendy as they may be.
I use Group II wheats, durum in particular as a high gluten pasta flour = the best in the world.
I use Group III wheats with modest gluten content for breads and other baking.
I don't need low gluten cake flours, I refuse to try "self-raising" flours = that's what yeast is for.
I have light & dark rye flours, corn flour (which is NOT corn starch), rice flours and quinoa.
Dove farms stove is good quality. That said I pay around £7 a sack for whole wheat from the local feed mill. I can get it for around a fiver or less from the grower but its dusty and dirty straight out of the combine so, for a couple of quid, I have the mill clean and bag it for me.
http://www.infinityfoodswholesale.co.uk/
mail order. Minimium order is £200.00 I think but if you are spreading that through a group of people you can get it down.
mail order. Minimium order is £200.00 I think but if you are spreading that through a group of people you can get it down.
If you're only wanting enough to try it out, away to Sainsbury's. They sell Merchant Gourmet stuff in half and kilo bags.
If you're putting together a bigger order of stuff though, it's worth buying it from folks like these, when over £30 has free p&p.
https://www.buywholefoodsonline.co.uk/organic-wheat-grain-1kg.html?gclid=CK3srdPp58gCFUPnwgod3d8P8A
I agree with BR on getting it cleaned up of most of the dust and debris from the Mill. It's worth the extra couple of quid not to have to clean it up yourself. Been there, done that, takes hours, even with a useful wind and a decent huge sieve, not doing it again.
Most UK grown wheat isn't hard/hard wheat.
http://www.farm-direct.co.uk/farming/stockcrop/wheat/wheatcurr.html
M
If you're putting together a bigger order of stuff though, it's worth buying it from folks like these, when over £30 has free p&p.
https://www.buywholefoodsonline.co.uk/organic-wheat-grain-1kg.html?gclid=CK3srdPp58gCFUPnwgod3d8P8A
I agree with BR on getting it cleaned up of most of the dust and debris from the Mill. It's worth the extra couple of quid not to have to clean it up yourself. Been there, done that, takes hours, even with a useful wind and a decent huge sieve, not doing it again.
Most UK grown wheat isn't hard/hard wheat.
http://www.farm-direct.co.uk/farming/stockcrop/wheat/wheatcurr.html
M
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I'd always go Organic, especially with the recent Glyphosate levels found on grain.
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Can you learn if your suppliers know what they are selling? ( My Post #3) Group III bread wheat species (5?) became so popular 5,000 years ago for exactly that reason: bread. Along with the gluten level, we got increased stem strength (less wind lodging) and much easier threshing.
I'll be off to the store this AM to buy some all-purpose flour: good for bready things and satisfactory for pasta when doped up with some Group II durum semolina. $10.00/10kg bag. At this morning's exchange rate, that would be almost exactly 5 pounds sterling.
I'll be off to the store this AM to buy some all-purpose flour: good for bready things and satisfactory for pasta when doped up with some Group II durum semolina. $10.00/10kg bag. At this morning's exchange rate, that would be almost exactly 5 pounds sterling.
If your "feed mills" are anything like ours, be careful.
When a Canadian grain farmer takes a load of wheat to sell, the top dollar goes to clean grain for human consumption.
If the elevator operator (aka front-line buyer) finds so much as a single rat turd in a truckload, the load is declared
Grades #4 Feed and off to the feed mill it goes. The price difference is so great that the load is essentially worthless.
I can't do pigeon poo in my bread.
When a Canadian grain farmer takes a load of wheat to sell, the top dollar goes to clean grain for human consumption.
If the elevator operator (aka front-line buyer) finds so much as a single rat turd in a truckload, the load is declared
Grades #4 Feed and off to the feed mill it goes. The price difference is so great that the load is essentially worthless.
I can't do pigeon poo in my bread.
