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What is the difference between all-natural whole wheat flour and all-natural white whole wheat flour?

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The Roadside Pi...

What is the difference between all-natural whole wheat flour and all-natural white whole wheat flour?

Specifically, wheat Montana bronze chief and prairie gold?Thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge. 

King regards,

Will F.

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Sugarowl

I don't know about those varieties, but I can comment on the KA whole wheat vs white whole wheat. The KA whole wheat is a hard red winter wheat (and a darker variety). Their white whole wheat is still whole wheat, just a softer spring variety with a lighter grain color (not a mixture between the white and wheat). The white whole wheat also has a milder taste as compared to the darker, regular whole wheat. So it might be the same with those two.

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pmccool

Wheat Montana mills the Bronze Chief flour from hard red wheat and the Prairie Gold flour from hard white wheat.  Both are excellent flours that I have used.

Paul

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The Roadside Pi...

Great! I think the public at large would prefer the white whole wheat. I'll start with that.

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barryvabeach

The public at large will definitely prefer the WWW.  If you want to add some red - start around 10 to 30%,  it gives it a bit of flavor, but not the overwhelming grassy flavor of 100% red. 

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Will F.

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gavinc

A while back I was experimenting with Debra Wink's 100% whole-wheat sandwich loaf. Initially I struggled to get the rise and overall results that Debra got. She helped me through a series of bakes while tweaking each. I was using white whole wheat milled the day before baking. Eventually able to source some winter red wheat and discovered it was much higher in the protein per-cent. I was able to eliminate the use of wheat gluten and was able to copy the results of Debra's.

Cheers,

Gavin