Do you eat sourdough bread?

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I just bought some and it doesn’t do anything for me taste wise (very dry) but it’s supposed to be healthier with less gluten. Is it worth the extra expense?

Good quality sourdough is the food of the gods.

I love it but I've never found a good commercial one

I occasionally buy it from the local farmers market but I prefer to make soda bread at home as it’s very quick to make and doesn’t contain yeast. You wouldn’t make sandwiches with soda bread though but it’s yummy eaten as a single slice with toppings or dunked in soup and stews.

I love it, but find some varieties too salty. Best to date in my opinion are I think Jasons in a turquoise bags from Sainsbury and they used to do another one with a name beginning with B which was delish but they seemed to have stopped stocking it now 😊

In lockdown spent months trying to make sourdough (and I'm an excellent cook) - nearly go there but though life's too bloody short . Plus it's too hard on the old teeth.

It's dry and almost impossible to slice

I really like it but only the bakery ones - I find the commercial supermarket offerings are too heavy and not “holey” enough.

Been making our own for years, some one up thread complained it tasted sour, it's meant to.

I normally leave it overnight in a gloopy mess to ferment then kneed the next day with more flour.

It's best either warn from the oven or toast. It also never seems to go mouldy no matter how long you leave it.

A big thick slice warmed in the microwave then dipped in olive oil or home made hummus, lush.

It's a cult (I'm not bitter) as is spelt flour.

I can't eat it. It gives me enough wind to almost launch myself like a rocket, whichever one I try.

I just don't like it. I like the texture but dislike the vinegary taste. I also dislike quinoa, brown rice, brown pasta and all the other things I should be eating.

Now I do love soda bread from Ireland, it just tastes better over there. Buttered on both sides 🤤

I also dislike quinoa

I'm not particularly fussy & do eat things I don't love but quinoa disgusts me.

Drooling just thinking about it

I like Gail’s sourdough or my own. Supermarket stuff is usually not really sourdough. Ingredients list contains loads of other bollocks.

I only like it toasted

Is it proper sourdough? If it says ‘With sourdough’ it only has a bit added. Real sourdough should be chewy but definitely not dry. I’m pretty sure they changed the labelling recently so now it has to say ‘with’ rather than just claiming to be sourdough as was the case until very recently.

The Bertinet bakeries bread is the real thing I think or a proper patisserie type place should do decent stuff.

Love the taste but anything with sourdough in it gives me stomach ache. I can't eat it.

Sourdough is lovely toasted. Buy a fresh one from a local bakery, supermarket ones are not as nice.

Only toasted and smothered in smoked salmon and scrambled eggs . The bread is so overrated but the above makes it tolerable

Yes because my dd2 works in an artisan bakers, we don’t buy bread

its not dry, or certainly shouldn’t be it’s delicious fresh and lasts about 8 days here. We keep it in paper bag in side. When it goes hard we sprinkle water on it and pop in microwave - then slice and toast

it lasts 8 days as there are only two of us and we don’t eat bread every day

yes it’s chewy, but sliced bread is very dissolvable and no substance to it, so in comparison real bread will be chewy

I only have it out and about. After lockdown my favourite cafe reopened, and all the good breads were gone, replaced with sourdough. Goodbye thick white batch, goodbye sodas, goodbye wheaten, goodbye Guinness wheaten. It's a source of great personal pain.

If you get it from Sainsbury's it will just be regular bread, made with normal yeast, with some more acid added at some point to make it taste slightly sour and maybe with a slightly slower prove to make the holes in the bread bigger. There is no way they are maintaining a proper levain in the Sainsbury's bakery 😹

If you want to try real sourdough you need to go to a real bakery. There is a lot more to the flavour of real sourdough bread than just "sour", but if your platonic ideal of bread is something white and fluffy in a plastic bag smeared with a bit of Flora, you're probably not going to appreciate it. And that's fine, everything isn't for everyone.

Also "gluten intolerance" isn't real. You may either have coeliac disease which a serious and debilitating condition- not something you can forget for a bit just because the bread looks so nice today- or a wheat allergy, which causes a histamine response (anything from mild hives/runny nose up to anaphylaxis). In either case you can't have wheat bread full-stop, there's no certain type of wheat bread that is better than another.

Yes, but only toasted.

There’s a potato and rosemary one in Booths at the moment that I’ve been eyeing up. Has anyone tried it?