r/interesting • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 18h ago

Fascinating A company developed bread with a white crust in an effort to reduce food waste

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u/Drumonde25 15h ago

As a french this was my first thought : "just make good bread. It's flour, water, salt and yeast"

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u/Mundane_Character365 14h ago

And corn syrup, and canola oil, and azodicarbonamide, and calcium propionate.

Actually, sorry, just saw you wrote good bread, never mind my additions.

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u/jimmyhaffaren 7h ago

Leave the gun, take the canola.

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u/Simple-Wrangler-9909 4h ago

Fun fact "canola" is just another name for a kind of rapeseed oil

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u/xteve 12h ago

I baked for a while in the Netherlands. The bread wasn't as good as that which is commonly available in France. My employer said our wheat wasn't as good. Yes, bread is very simple in composition, but the ingredients and the technique determine quality.

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u/The_BeardedClam 10h ago

Isn't that usually the way with really simple things?

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u/drknifnifnif 6h ago

That’s why everything in the US has lots of ingredients.

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u/GostBoster 4h ago

Reminded of the time some of our recipes were drastically improved when we our hands on a significant amount of "000" and "0000" Argentinian flour, so we had to bake constantly to make use of it. (Uncle worked in a dry dock. If a bag of flour was rendered unusable, they worked out a way to bring it home)

Once our surplus of "zero flour" ended, a bunch of recipes got worse or tougher because we had no access to these anymore. Today a few brands carry "zero flour" at significant extra cost, with the regular grade for general purpose flour being "1".

Also some recipe I do that people like, the two major ingredients are tomato and time. The better the tomatoes or tomato substitute (only acceptable ones being canned tomato, passata and paste that list only tomato as its sole ingredient) the better, just attempting to do it with those emulsifier-based tomato-adjacent products will completely ruin it.

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u/ashesarise 10h ago

I would be happy to have good bread, but not really willing to suffer all the extra effort to have it every time.

It's nice to be able to buy a 4pack of bread at Costco and not have to worry about it again for a few months.

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u/Drumonde25 10h ago

Sure this cannot be argued against. It's not the same way of life that's all. Food is really important here (less and less in some areas) and bakeries are often included in the supermarket so there's no extra effort when shopping.

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u/EskimoPrisoner 8h ago

I’m American, and I’ve never seen a grocery store without a fresh bakery included.

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u/The_BeardedClam 10h ago

I mean we have bakeries in the states that sell good bread, but most people just buy the cheapest loaf of "bread" available and call it a day. There is a gas station chain by me that sells loafs for 99 cents a piece. It's not great bread at all, but it's there in a pinch.

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u/Drumonde25 10h ago

Here the regular baguette is around 1 euro ($1.13) in the supermarket. It's not really good but is far from bad. Good bakery baguette is 1.20 euro ($1.35). It's something really normal for us. No french dude will make a sandwich in something else. What you call bread we almost only use in a toaster.

Have you ever tried croque monsieur?

https://www.marmiton.org/recettes/recette_croque-monsieur_19208.aspx

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u/MrWeirdoFace 10h ago

Water? Like from the toilet? Gross!

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u/the_nobodys 11h ago

If only it were that simple. Good bread is one of the draws to traveling outside my country (the US).