Submitted by dwfender on July 7, 2011 - 8:09pm
Just curious if anyone out there knows of any places that sell quality flours for a reasonable price or possibly a place where I can buy flour in bulk. 25lb or more at more of a discount. I have yet to find any reasonable rye flours.
Dan
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Amazon.com: Great River Organic Milling
Organic Rye Bread Flour Blend, 25 lbs.: $29.91 ($1.20 / lb), free shipping
Local Wal Mart and Kroger stores seem to be in a bit of price war on bread flours. Lately I've gotten Bob's Red Mill all purpose 100% hard red winter wheat for $2.99/5 lbs., King Arthur AP/bread/ whole wheat for $3.42/5 lbs. Wal Mart has Wheat Montana 'Bronze Chief' hard or soft red spring (not winter) wheat berries for $12.50/25 lbs.
buying flour
I know of three places you might be able to buy in bulk.
NYbakers.com
Fornobravo.com
And one I found just yesterday: brickovenbaker.com
I did see that you could buy 20 or 55 lb bags of flour from Forno Bravo and Brickovenbakers. I don't recall about nybakers.com though.
As far as their prices go, they seemed reasonable, but I'm not sure if they'd give any volume discount.
I hope that helps.
Flour
As a member of the Park Slope Food Coop I can state clearly that we carry some of the best flour available anyplace.
How can we learn more about your flours and
how to obtain them?
I've mentioned before that certain of the Health Nuts stores carry a good selection of flours, albeit in small bags. Also, Eataly on 23rd Street has a nice little selection, also in small bags. The big bags are there, though. Maybe if you speak nicely to the baker he'll sell you some.
Another vote for your local food co-op
In my town, the co-ops have good flours in their bulk sections -- usually organic, always much less expensive than packaged flours. And they are willing to order full bags (25-50#) if you want them.