Why real bread
Read the label. That’s the whole argument.
We could spend a page describing the difference between our bread and a supermarket loaf. The ingredient lists do it faster.
Our Signature loaf
3 ingredients
- Organic unbleached flour
- Filtered water
- Sea salt
Representative of a national “artisan-style” loaf sold in Indiana grocery chains. Want a specific brand? Pick one off the shelf in our comparison tool.
A supermarket loaf
22 ingredients
- Enriched wheat flour
- Niacin
- Reduced iron
- Thiamine mononitrate
- Riboflavin
- Folic acid
- Water
- Sugar
- Yeast
- Soybean oil
- Salt
- Wheat gluten
- Mono- and diglycerides
- DATEM
- Sodium stearoyl lactylate
- Calcium peroxide
- Calcium sulfate
- Ammonium sulfate
- Enzymes
- Ascorbic acid
- Calcium propionate
- Citric acid
Fermentation
Time is the ingredient you can’t buy.
Commercial yeast makes bread rise in an hour. That’s the entire reason it exists, and it’s why industrial bread needs a list of conditioners to fake the structure that time would have built for free.