Flour - where has all the flour gone?

[NemophilistRebel]

Are people hoarding it? It’s been 4 weeks since I’ve managed to get any

Ideally bread flour but I’d settle for plain

I tried doves farm direct but they say they’ve been so busy they have stopped selling to public too

For anyone still trying to get flour, my local mill Shipton Mill are now taking limited online orders again. Some fantastic flours available and quite reasonably priced considering the quality of the product.

Yes, I've been refreshing that page for the last 24 hours. It's going to be like hunting for a supermarket delivery slot. I've had some interesting flours from them over the years, we went through a phase of having seeded bread and their seven seed mix (could be any number but I'm remembering it as seven) was lovely.

Windsor cake craft has flour and bread/cake mixes for delivery if anyone needs it

Anyone needing flour - that would be me. I've baked my bread for what seems like forever, I even kept going when my husband died. I'm down to my last three bags and I've been beyond annoyed that I didn't have the foresight to keep more on the shelf before all this kicked off. I have ordered, time will tell whether they have the stock to fulfill it.

Thank you Thepigeonsarecoming hopefully Theflouriscoming too

Sorry about your husband @Knotaknitter

They definitely had stock on Friday, as a cake making company they switched to ordering and selling basics online. I follow them on Facebook and owner was grateful people had ordered as it’s keeping them in business

Thanks all. I've thought about it, it's not really about the bread but about control and having some part of my life carry on as normal.

I think I'm going to make some swedish cardamon buns today, I have egg, butter and sugar and feel I can now squander the flour on something fun. They made them on GBBO four or more years ago and I wanted to make them but couldn't find ground cardamon. I saw some recently but then never got round to it. As I seem to be stopping at home rather a lot recently, I think I have the time now

I agree. It's the unknown too. I feel far better now I have actually been to the supermarket and seen it's not that bad. If there's no flour, there are bread and cakes.

@Mintjulia Thank-you. I have 2 of those, and an unopened jar. The jar is the old one. Dh says the sachets are ok as he wiped the outsides off with a disinfectant?

DH got some in our Tesco today at lady. What has our life come to when we are looking everywhere for something regarded as quite basic. Already have plenty of baking powder to turn it to self rsisingz.

Today, not lady. Heaven knows what happened

@Impatientwino yeast arrived! Thank you so much, now to decide between bread or pizza! You've made a family very happy

@Rockbird do both...use less of the sachet and leave it to prove for longer. We tried the other day as we're down to 2 sachets & none anywhere and it worked fine :)

Oh that's good. Thanks! Didn't think of that.

Me neither until I saw it suggested on this thread!

Ah great glad it's with you safely! Enjoy your cooking!

Strange this product was always there then suddenly everyone is a baker.

My family are shopping less often now. We would have a big shop weekly and drop in for extras at lunchtime & etc. So we could buy bread easily. We started isolating early (vulnerable and could WFH). Flour would keep the fortnight or more between shops we are doing now, so we are more likely to want it. So higher demand. DH says there were lots of reduced veg & fruit in the supermarket so it could be there is reduced demand for that, the bread was selling well though.

I heard that they have flour but not the bags to package it up in.

I found out where it’s all going

Oh, Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Of course.

Sorry, wrong thread!

I used to be a baker but had to close my shop, I'm still baking for a lot of people and the NHS. If it helps I've been getting regular deliveries from 3 web sites.

For bigger bags (I like the 16kg one, that's about 30 loafs)

For smaller bags:
theartisanschoice.com/search?q=flour

www.hbingredients.co.uk/ and search on flour. They showing out of stock just now.

Good luck!

Sorry all - my daughter pointed out I messed up the last post, I'm still getting the hang of this computer. The bigger bags I buy from www.bfp-xpress.co.uk/ who are a bakery wholeseller I used to buy from when the shop was open.

BakerSuperMum as a wholesaler the problem is absolutely not 16kg sacks but the total lack of stock in 1-3 kg bags. One of our millers has told me that 96% (!) Of flour milled is for manufacturing/ catering so the doubling (2m to 4m bags ) of domestic demand has totally caught them (understandably) off guard. It's the packaging supply that needs to catch up.
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