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Whilst I'm yet to visit Gail's, 75p per 100g isn't [/i]that expensive for a quality product.


Cheap bread is a false economy. Google "Chorley-Wood method" for more insight. It's nutritionally worthless and won't fill you up. Smaller amounts of quality bread are better for body and soul.


A 500g loaf (which is a pretty decent size) would cost you ?3.75 not ?5. By comparison, Blackbird would charge about ?1 less whilst Brick House, a local bakery who won best loaf in London, would be a little more.

I suppose it depends on your budget, David. Although i understand you have to pay for quality, its not really a place I could afford to go to, but have to say if i could afford it, it all looked amazing. They had small pots of jam for ?5. I think the croissants were about ?1.80 ish.


I bake my own bread and a 1000g loaf costs me about 60p to make, I also make my own jam, so maybe I am just to thrity for a shop like this. lol

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> I've been toying with this confession for a while:

> I don't like artisan bread. Too dense and chewy.

> Give me a traditional, crusty bloomer any day.


Your traditional bloomer...from the 1960s Chorleywood process. Each to their own though!

it may well be each to their own but for some people bread is a staple part of the diet (either shop bought that may have no nutritional value or the artisan type). Gails did have some mini loafs for ?3 (15cm long x 10cm high) and would last myself (& husband) about a day - couple of slices each for breakfast and a sandwich each for lunch - it would be finished. So in my opinion, Gails for me would be a once in a blue moon treat if that.

herne hilly - if you make your own bread then hats off to you. It'll taste as good as most "artisan" bread and far better than the sliced pap from supermarkets. I do too occassionally and have toyed with getting a bread maker.


PGC - you are dead to me ;-)


ps - now and again, for a bacon or sausage sarnie, I too like a soft white bloomer. But don't tell anyone.

If David ever appears on Mastermind I think the Chorley-Wood method should be his subject.


Here he is in 2009 discussing it on the forum:

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,199344,253937#msg-253937


And in 2011....

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?29,769600,771850#msg-771850


And now today!


I shall be checking again in 2015 for an update!

Bellenden Belle - these things are important. During pregnancy, my partner ate so much bread it was like plagues of locusts had descended during the night. I believe my son was actually partially dough when he was born.


I'm pleased that it wasn't vegetable fats and excess yeast that he grew strong on!

herne hilly Wrote:

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> lol David, bread machines are fab - i got one from

> Lidl (?30) - it lasted 5 yrs before it died and it

> paid for itself , many times over but the danger

> is its so nice you'll be eating loads of bread !


I do that already and given my pompous foodie tastes am bankrupting myself on flour and water. Perhaps it's time to take the plunge. I love making bread by hand but it's just not practicle all the time. I make too much mess in the kitchen as it is.

Again would echo Bobbly in saying I'm actually disappointed to hear of Gail's opening here because Romeo Jones does pretty much everything Gail's does, plus you have Herne Hill crying out for somewhere like Gail's. Please everyone don't forget about Romeo Jones= it's a fantastic independent coffee shop and cafe ran by wonderful owners and has been in the village for over 5 years working hard to establish itself and offers friendly customer service and absolutely top quality produce and products. They also do absolutely gorgeous bread at RJ that they buy from local suppliers, I'd recommend popping down there Saturday when they have a stool out front selling many many different types of bread and pastries. So don't forget to support our local independents.

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