Gold Medal Premium Quality Bread Flour for Baking, 10 lb

Quality products and to help me to make cakes and breads

Worked great for bread

A better value for my sourdough baking. I use it to bake and for feeding my sourdough starter.

Perfect for my bread machine!

This is absolutely NOT bread flour! The protein content is only TEN PERCENT (10%). That's basically just all-purpose flour.Unfortunately, companies like General Mills get away with misleading packaging and marketing. If you go to Gold Medal's website and compare the nutritional information for this product against their all purpose flour, you'll find they are absolutely identical, except the bread flour contains 22 grams of carbohydrates, whereas the all-purpose contains 23 grams of carbohydrates per 30-gram serving (1/4 cup). [See photo above from the Gold Medal website. Interestingly, the nutritional information on this so-called bread flour is not included among the photographs in the above description.]I feel certain that anyone serious about baking breads, particularly sourdough, will find this paltry amount of protein in Gold Medal's so-called "bread flour" woefully inadequate for the task and will result in disappointing results. I bought this product because I thought I had found a bargain: 10 pounds of bread flour for $12.98, minus a $3.25 coupon = $9.73 or $0.97 a pound.Rather than a bargain, upon receiving my shipment from Amazon and looking at the nutritional labeling, I quickly realized the protein level on this flour was only 10% and I had to take action before using the product.I purchased 10 pounds of Bob's Red Mill's Unbleached Enriched Artisan Bread Flour (which has 13.89% protein) at my local Walmart and then blended the two in equal parts, gram for gram, to create a blend with 11.9% protein. {10% + 13.89% = 23.89, divided by 2 = 11.945%}The Gold Medal "bread flour" cost me $9.73 for ten pounds. Two 5# bags of Bob's Artisan Bread Flour cost me $13.96. Add those together and this "bargain" flour cost me $23.69 or $1.18 a pound, not to mention my time for a special run to Walmart, weighing and mixing the two flours and then finding space to store 20 pounds rather than 10 in my freezer.You can do your own calculations for this "Gold Medal Bread Flour", using the nutritional info above from the company's website or the back of the bag:3g of protein in every 30g of flour3x100 = 300300/30g = 10.000% proteinBy comparison, Bob's Red Mill's Artisan Bread Flour contains almost fourteen percent (13.89%) protein, making it a much stronger flour and superior for making bread. By blending the two products I was able to make this Gold Medal "bread flour" useable at roughly TWELVE percent (12%) instead of only ten percent (10%) protein but I'll certainly never buy it again. Shame on Gold Medal for misleading consumers.

great deal and great quality!

The package arrived with a split down the side. I have used this brand for years so I know the quality is good.

Good quality