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08-26-2008, 05:54 PM | #1 |
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What's "unbleached white flour" anyway?
Is there a white flour and a wheat flour? And why do they bleach some of the white flour?
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08-26-2008, 05:58 PM | #2 |
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Re: What's "unbleached white flour" anyway?
Bleaching is a chemical process that makes it white. It serves no purpose but to make it white. Unbleached white flour has not been chemically bleached, but is allowed to oxidize naturally. Note: "oxidize". Not good. All flour can be catagorized as wheat flour, as it technically come from wheat.
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08-26-2008, 06:02 PM | #3 |
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Re: What's "unbleached white flour" anyway?
It's a mystery to me why the food industry feels the need to bleach flour. Unbleached is plenty white! Refined sugar and table salt are also bleached. :/
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08-26-2008, 06:06 PM | #4 |
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Re: What's "unbleached white flour" anyway?
I know it's weird to me too.
So oxidize is bad? Tell me more, please! Is the only "good" flour ww flour? It's just so...dense! I like to do half ww and half unbleached white. |
08-26-2008, 06:12 PM | #5 |
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Re: What's "unbleached white flour" anyway?
Think rust. When iron oxidizes, it rusts. An apple turning brown is oxidizing. It's the result of exposing things to oxygen. Sometimes that's good. .. a lot of times, it's bad, since it destoys. An oxygen molecule attaching to other molecules can create free radicals.
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Could I do the same when a recipe calls for bread flour? Like if it calls for 6 cups bread flour, can I use 4 ww and 2 bf? |
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08-26-2008, 06:29 PM | #9 |
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Re: What's "unbleached white flour" anyway?
Yes, it works, even with cookies. Your result may be a little different, but it will be healthier and your tastes will adapt to that.
Adding gluten is a good idea, and if it's yeast bread, proofing the yeast with a little sugar in your warm water helps it do better I think. If it's a quick bread/muffin, a little extra baking powder can also lighten it.
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