October 23, 2012 - 7:29pm
KA Flour, Unpredictable
For decades, I have been using KA flour (AP, bread, WW, and rye) for all my bread baking. Given the time, I bake bread once a week. SD and traditional. I have never experienced any dough problems with KA flour until this month. I know all about hydration, water temperature, autoylyse, fold and stretch, window pane .... the whole gamut... My recent problems with the AP and bread flours are threefold: (1) very stringy dough (2) very slow rise and/or (3) mottled dough ball. This past weekend, I used a combination AP + bread flour at my daughter's house (different flour bags) and the darn dough tore!
Just wondering if anyone else has noticed a change in the KA bread/AP flours recently?
Diane
http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/30720/case-melting-dough
I live in the UK, so I don't have KA flours,
but it sounds like you both might have the same kind of trouble
I also use KA flour, and I have not noticed any quality problems lately. They have a great customer service department, so it might be worth it to give them a call.