Bob’s Red Mill Unbleached White Pastry Flour

[luvpyrpom]

I was running low on pastry flour so I thought I'd try out Bob's Red Mill brand - does anyone have any thoughts on this? And how would you store this? I could only find a 5# bag and the 3# bag I got from KAF lasted me for quite a long while like a year.

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[Mike Nolan]

I haven't seen the Bobs Red Mill unbleached white pastry flour locally, all I can find locally is whole wheat pastry flour.

I buy KAF pastry flour several 3# bags at a time and keep the unopened bags in the freezer. I like their regular pastry flour better than their pastry blend. You can freeze an opened bag, but any flour that isn't well sealed will absorb odors in the freezer.

[BakerAunt]

I keep my pastry flour in the refrigerator, in Tupperware, once it is opened. I mostly use Bob's whole wheat pastry flour, which costs less than KAF's.

Bob's Red Mill does offer free shipping, but you have to buy $50 worth of products, and it does not include 25# bags of flour, although you can buy a case of various products, and buying a case brings the price down. In addition to their whole wheat pastry flour, I've used their barley flour, whole wheat flour, brown rice, and I love their oats. I also have bought some of their whole grain cereal mix, and I like the vegi-soup packages of various lentils and peas with barley. I expect to order more from them once we move to northern Indiana.

http://www.bobsredmill.com/

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by BakerAunt.

[aaronatthedoublef]

Like Mike I use KAF pastry flour. I have unopened bags in big, plastic bins in the basement with DampRid in the bins. I keep opened bags in plastic containers in the kitchen. I tend to go through it pretty quickly as I use it weekly for waffles and pancakes.

I use cake flour and flax meal from Bob's Red Mill. I can buy both of those locally. Bob's cake flour is unbleached and not a blend like KAF. I use if for making pizza so I go through it pretty quickly as well. The local Big Y just had it on sale for $3 for 3 lbs. so I stocked up.

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