Where (approx) are you at? That's quite fierce for most of the USA.
It's like 30F here, it might snow 4 inches. There isn't a loaf of bread available for sale in a hundred mile radius.
My grandfather (from Denmark) had a saying: it's not really cold until it's negative on the Fahrenheit scale. So in Canada you wouldn't be able to complain, but given you didn't specify, likely you mean -15f which is damned cold, even by his standards. You have my sympathies.[DOUBLEPOST=1483715259,1483715227][/DOUBLEPOST]
Make some. Not that hard. You can probably find yeast in the store, they don't often (ever?) run out of that.
It might not get above freezing here today...
I feel really sorry for you guys up north when it is actually cold down here.
I feel really sorry for you guys up north when it is actually cold down here.
Oh sorry, post was vague and it is the rant thread, I was just contrasting the panic that's happening here at 30F while a kid gets sent to school at -15F up north
I do not buy bread. We do not eat much of it at home (1-2 loaves a month), and it's always made from scratch. Already planning a batch of garlic bread to bake tonight or tomorrow. My yeast did recently go bad (stopped proofing, which I'm OK with after 1.5 years of using the same box), so I did buy a jar of it along with some cat food.
Closest GFS is 170mi from me, it looks like D: I buy my from Sam's Club, usually, similarly cheap and long-lasting when zipped and refrigerated. The small Kroger jar will tide me over until the next trip there, tho.
Never used the brick stuff before, always the Fleischmann's Traditional or Instant "granular" type. Seen it in the stores though. Not sure HOW to use it in recipes which always call for the stuff I use, so I haven't worried about it.
I don't mean yeast cakes. SAF-Instant is sold in a cube-shaped vacuum-packed foil container, which makes it feel like a solid brick. Once you cut into it, though, the air gets back in and it's just a powder like you're used to.
--Patrick
Ah, OK. Fair enough. I still wonder about yeast cakes though, just for curiosity's sake, though I don't bake enough to use that kind of quantity in one shot (my understanding is you need to open it, and use it fairly quickly), but I could be completely off. As I said, never used.
Northernish MN. Sort of by Nimrod. Yes, that's actually a town.
If you're using something that requires exactly that much yeast, you're good.
If not, it strikes me as somewhat wasteful.
--Patrick
Yeah, I'm also referring to foil-wrapped instant yeast blocks, not the yeast cake stuff. I think that stuff barely lasts 2 weeks, if memory serves right. No way a home baker could go through it, I don't think.
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The owner, who was supposedly coming in this week, is now supposedly coming in next week. I met with our GM today and he's gonna get me some facetime with the owner so I can make my case to him.Anything stronger than a light breeze is going to destroy the company's finances. Someone needs that beaten into their heads until they upgrade. Or you get hauled off for assault.
What I expect to be the response:
It's short for "Gordon Food Service," a restaurant supply company that branched out into retail for things like church picnics and community events and then eventually just said, "Eh, let's be a regular retailer."
--Patrick
Even up here in MON-WI we'd close schools for -15F. Of course, up here it's due to wind chills.[DOUBLEPOST=1483737931,1483737695][/DOUBLEPOST]
...I am suitably impressed. That's about 5 1/2-6 hours from me, and even further north.
We used to, but a lot of parents got mad about it. Mostly because it usually warms up to at least above zero by the afternoon. (Temps at night around here drop a lot). Right now it's a balmy POSITIVE 15.
Better than no pants!
After parents complained a few years ago our school district closes school if wind chill is below -20F(-29C).
We usually only get a few days like that a year though, so it's not as bad as much of Canada. We've got the Great Lakes around Michigan which moderates the temperature significantly, so it's not even as bad as just west a state or two.
We usually only get a few days like that a year though, so it's not as bad as much of Canada. We've got the Great Lakes around Michigan which moderates the temperature significantly, so it's not even as bad as just west a state or two.
As I just posted on facebook:
weather.com says it's 8 with the wind chill factor. My nipples didn't even get hard
We go there mainly for three things: SAF-Instant yeast (for bread making), Diamond Crystal Kosher salt (for recipes), and for giant tubs of mini cream puffs (but mostly for the first two).
We do occasionally require high-gluten flour (for bagels), didn't realize they carry it. We've been going to the Jewish market instead.
--Patrick
Somewhere, @WasabiPoptart is laughing at us. And then takes a sip of her drink. 
Me neither.