In your opinion, which supermarket has the best bakery?

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I absolutely love the Lidl bakery, I’ve never had a bad thing from there. I loved the cheese pretzels but I think they might’ve discontinued them now It’s all so cheap too! The Tesco bakery is good too, I like their bread batons, the tiger bread is lovely.

@ILikePistachios yeah but that's not unique to M&S, all other supermarkets are the same 🤣 what ingredients are you referring to? It's all ultraprocessed no matter where you go.

The bakery items are fully baked at a separate site, packaged in bags, shipped off to a storage facility, frozen, then at some point within a 12 month period whenever stock is required, stock is sent to whichever stores, defrosted, unpacked from their original packaging and placed on a bakery display

They have signs on this product in their stores stating "baked in store" I've seen them in my local M&S, very distinctive product so no chance of getting it confused with another

Morrisons have the best beef though, their fillet is second to none

Lidl.

M and s for French bread

I don’t like the Lidl bakery, the quality is rubbish especially the bread - it’s the same pappy crap as anywhere else. The one gem I’ve found in a supermarket bakery is the taste the difference seeded baguette in Sainsbury’s which doesn’t seem to have any added rubbish.

All the bakery products I've bought from Lidl have been really nice, I've tried most of their items but I haven't ever tried their donuts. I keep looking at them but so far have resisted the urge to buy any.

I might have to change that tomorrow when I go in there.

Lidl cheese twists were so lovely - no sign of them now ☹️

It has to be the Lidl bakery for me. I have to get a pretzel every time I am passing.

The cheese pretzels are back in store for a limited time 🥳

... and the cheese twists are back! 🧀😀

Do you think Sainsburys (or any of the others) are made differently?

Tesco or Lidl.

I used to rate Sainsburys but they seemed to downsize the offering when they reduced the other bits of store like deli counters etc.

Tesco have some interesting flavours and I like Lidl for their focaccia and cakes.

Tesco for jam doughnuts.

Co op for a wrapped and sliced tiger bread loaf 😍

Marks and Spencer

@ILikePistachios I'm so intrigued now as an M&S bakery fan. What horrible ingredients do they use?? And what goes on in the manufacturing process? Maybe I should stick to Sainsbury's...!

I only to go lidl occasionally - but have to say I'm impressed.
Sainsburys - not great, but ours is only small.
Used to like Morrisons but can't get to it now - their tear'n'shares were nice.
Want to like M&S but I'm never that impressed for some reason.

I worked in an Asda bakery.
I made pancakes on the big hot plate, I made muffins and loaf cakes too. I sliced 1000s of loaves and worked reductions..

The doughnuts are not made in store, they're frozen, we.just defrosted them and put sugar on... From a big tray of sugar that just day there for days..
The cookies aren't made.in store, they're frozen too.

The breads are made in store.
If you ever see a bread that's been sliced, it's yesterdays bread.. they make it say on a Monday, if it doesn't sell that day, they slice it and sell it on Tuesday.

They used to bake the Smart Price Asda Bread in store fresh, slice it that day and put it on shelves.

It was fun.

Easy win for Morrisons. Their cream cake selection…

Sainsburys do a good crusty white roll, but everything else is so overpriced I rarely set foot in there

Ohhhh I slept on Morrisons, my bad. I agree. I just don't go there very often but love their bakery and their salt and pepper bread.

I visit Lidl just for the bakery!

For those of you saying specific supermarkets don't bake their products fresh I think you're probably fooling yourselves- there are no supermarkets making dough from scratch in store and baking it. All supermarkets either "bake" them in store from frozen or roll out pre made dough if you're lucky. There's no such thing as a proper bakery in a supermarket.

I used to work at pizza express and was very surprised that everything comes frozen from a factory. The dough arrives in pre made single portions that the "chefs" then roll out and decorate with the toppings to give the impression of it being made. All the pastas all come frozen. Even the chocolate cake was made using a box of cake mix

Pizza Express is a chain restaurant, I'd be amazed if they were making dough and pasta!

@WittiestUsernameEver I agree. But there are a lot of posters here saying they don't like a particular supermarket bakery because the goods aren't actually baked in store or are only defrosted or finished in store. The reality is that it will be the same practice for all supermarkets- none of it is freshly made so it's just about what tastes best at the end of the day.

I love M&S. don't rate our local Waitrose at all. Our local aldi doesn't have a fresh bakery section.

Ha, just seen this! Weird coincidence but supports what I was saying.

www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/11/four-major-uk-supermarkets-accused-of-misleading-freshly-baked-bread-claim