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I have been using a bread maker to make bread for my wife and I for years and years. When bread makers first came out, the supermarket that I frequent had two brands of bread flour (this is different from all purpose flour) in ten pound bags and two brands in five pound bags. As bread makers gradually went out of style, the selection went down. Recently, there was usually only one selection of bread flour, sometimes in five pound sacks, sometimes ten pound sacks. That was true about a week and a half ago, when my supply was near zero. I picked up just a five pound sack (the only brand and quantity available) even though the storage container I use holds ten pounds. I figured I could always pick up another sack on the next trip to the store and not have to lug two sacks home at once.
I begin to panic when I saw an article saying that lots of people had started to make their own bread. On my next trip to the supermarket, almost every part of the store was well supplied except ... flour. There might have been four or five sacks of flour total, no bread flour. (I should mention that the other area of the store that was completely devastated was rice - another basic commodity for my wife and myself.)
One of the members of my church said that he was sent to the store to pick up ten pounds of flour and some yeast for his wife. Same thing. Only about five sacks of flour period. What was more interesting, no yeast, nada. He had to go to five different stores before he could get any yeast, and then, only a small quantity. (Only packets, none of the jars of yeast to be found.) As he noted, people aren't stocking up on yeast to make beer. The liquor departments are well stocked.
So, forget about the TP. Yeast is the new gold.
I begin to panic when I saw an article saying that lots of people had started to make their own bread. On my next trip to the supermarket, almost every part of the store was well supplied except ... flour. There might have been four or five sacks of flour total, no bread flour. (I should mention that the other area of the store that was completely devastated was rice - another basic commodity for my wife and myself.)
One of the members of my church said that he was sent to the store to pick up ten pounds of flour and some yeast for his wife. Same thing. Only about five sacks of flour period. What was more interesting, no yeast, nada. He had to go to five different stores before he could get any yeast, and then, only a small quantity. (Only packets, none of the jars of yeast to be found.) As he noted, people aren't stocking up on yeast to make beer. The liquor departments are well stocked.
So, forget about the TP. Yeast is the new gold.