[aaronatthedoublef]

I'm with you. But look on Amazon and see people selling $25 of paper towels for more than double that.

Bread machines seem not to be outrageous yet. Most are under $100.

[aaronatthedoublef]

No knead intimidates me because I have to take a 400 degree Dutch oven out of the oven, dump wet dough into it, and then put it back in the oven. This is made extra daunting by kids who inevitably decide to race through the kitchen when I have the oven door open and things cooking on the stove.

The other problem with bread machines and most electronics is that they have parts from China which had their factories shutdown for about a month. By the time they reopened we were in a pandemic and many other factories and suppliers had slowed down if not shutdown.

Then goods coming in are in quarantine as opposed to coming in and going right to whomever needed them. So that slows everything down again.

Add to this increased demand for home electronics, panics, price gouging and there you have KAF limiting bread machines to two per customer.

[aaronatthedoublef]

I usually go to those sites when I have a coupon or they have a special. I bulked up on Pi Day, for example. And now I have a $10 KAF coupon which will pay for shipping for my next order.

I suspect the limit on bread machines is to prevent people from buying many and price gouging on eBay and Amazon.

[aaronatthedoublef]

Putting this on two different threads. Just received an email from KAF that flours are back in stock!

[aaronatthedoublef]

Just received a KAF email that flours are BACK in stock!

[aaronatthedoublef]

I used to say anything that encouraged people to bake was a good thing. This may be an exception.

[aaronatthedoublef]

BA, Mike, Thanks. I'll pull down the recipe.

[aaronatthedoublef]

BA, that would be great. Thanks

And no one hear seems to use cream cheese frosting. The recipe I was looking at makes a nice, soft, rich dough. Why would you want to glop it up with cream cheese frosting.

Thanks everyone

[aaronatthedoublef]

This makes me wonder why I am buying cake flour instead of using pastry flour exclusively, except pastry flour is WAY more expensive than the cake flour.

I haven't tried the cake flour in an actual cake recipe like the white velvet cake in the Cake Bible.

[aaronatthedoublef]

Thanks. I was too lazy to look those up. I remember KAF writing that only about 80% of the protein in whole wheat went to gluten formation but I've never been able to find that reference.

Looks like my best bet is mixing some bread and pastry and maybe some white whole wheat! Thanks again.

[aaronatthedoublef]

Okay... One more question. The cinnamon roll recipe specifically says to use AP and not bread flour. I have bread, white whole wheat, pastry, and cake.

Can I mix together bread, www, and pastry to lower the gluten to be closer to AP?

Thanks

[aaronatthedoublef]

Yup. I just received a note from BRM/UPS that I should have my order on Wednesday.

KAF is still saying they are out of most flours but grocery stores here have small amounts. So maybe they are filling their backlog and big retailers before they start taking new mail order.

[aaronatthedoublef]

I am thinking of making cinnamon rolls this weekend. My wife is not a fan of cream cheese frosting. I could make a milk/confectioner's sugar glaze. Maybe add a little lemon juice/zest. What do you all think?

[aaronatthedoublef]

Or people are just grabbing stuff without really knowing what it is. I usually buy SAF red. I could probably use two kinds of yeast but I make due. Which is a better all-purpose yeast?

[aaronatthedoublef]

Where we are some stores are opening an hour early and some stores are asking that their normal first hour be reserved. I am not quite at senior status yet, except in the eyes of AARP who has been sending me membership info since just before my 50th.

I've been to the liquor store where we pre-ordered and I ran in and picked it up and to one of our friend's restaurants. The food was good but the store was sad. On a Saturday at five our town center is packed and all the restaurants are bustling and beginning to fill. I had my pick of parking and the restaurants were empty. My friend's store had two people cooking and him and another packing up.

At some point I need to pick up some dry cleaning. They have been offering me delivery for years but now I need to come in and pick it up. Probably too many delivery requests.

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