King Arthur Harvest Grains Have Changed

[BakerAunt]

I noticed that King Arthur's Harvest Grains blend is no longer the same. They no longer include the malted wheat flakes. Indeed, there are not many flakes of any kind of grains, although rye and wheat are listed; the rest is oat groats and small seeds, and not as many sunflower seeds. When I baked my Rustic Sourdough recently, I added some of their 6-grain rolled flakes blend to bring it closer to what I recall.

I wish that King Arthur would tell us when they make a change instead of doing it quietly. Maybe most people don't notice, but I do notice a change in taste and texture with the change.

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[Mike Nolan]

Aside from flour and a few baking ingredients like diastatic malt powder, I haven't bought any King Arthur products for years. I look through their catalogs and it seems like it is mostly mixes that I would never use, rather than interesting baking stuff. I did buy the King Arthur pizza book and have baked several of the crust recipes from it already. I do not plan to make any of the sauce recipes, because they all contain garlic.

I do plan to try a pizza using the marinated tomatoes like we got at the Wolfgang Puck Kitchen in Grand Rapids.

I don't buy a lot from Bob's Red Mill these days, either. They've dropped most of the products I bought from them.

[BakerAunt]

I receive the King Arthur emails and also did the free subscribing to their Substack. However, I usually just skim both of them because the target audience does not appear to be practical bakers. While a baking challenge can be great, that is all they seem to offer these days. The Substack appears to be more of a 'because marketing told me that I have to do this" rather than an effort to engage with people. I've commented a few times, but it does not seem like a place where a community would form.

King Arthur still has some items that I buy, such as the golden wheat flour, and they are my source for pumpernickel flour since Bob's Red Mill stopped carrying it. The non-melting sugar and the sparkling white sugar are important ingredients for me. I also get my dutch processed cocoa and cheese powder from them. I don't like what King Arthur has done with shipping prices. I'm always calculating whether a percentage off a certain amount offsets the high shipping cost when they run a special.

I buy the Bob's Red Mill bread flour and whole wheat flour, and some of their other flours, through Vitacost/I-Herb. I'm not sure if the I-Herb merger is increasing the cost of the flours, or if the cost is just going up like other costs.

[kimbob]

I agree that the majority of kaf items are mixes. I do like a few like the gingerbread cake but am not interested in most. I prefer to cook and bake from scratch.

[Mike Nolan]

I was using their keto-friendly pizza mix for a while, but I've been experimenting with thin-crust pizza from the KAF pizza book lately.

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