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And flour. Had to put my sourdough starter in cryosleep.

24t 7y ago
Since retail and commercial supply chains are different I'd suggest reaching out to a restaurant you have good rapport with or contacting a local drygoods supplier. Flour is out there it's just not making it to the shelves.
- Kaibeezy 7y ago
  Ooh, good idea. I have a friend who’s got her restaurant on life support. She could bag up flour and sell it!
- OJFord 7y ago
  In the UK a few weeks ago commercial suppliers were complaining that they had all this stock they couldn't shift because it was packaged incorrectly - not flashily marketed or sized too large. Now the ones that did open up to retail customers seem widely sold out of the desirable stuff...
- _ph_ 7y ago
  Or just ask at the next bakery.
Raed667 7y ago
I had this exact same issue, but if you're willing to buy "pizza-packs" or "bread-packs" or whatever marketing they put on it. It's just flour + sourdough for a markup.
newman8r 7y ago
you can check with with https://centralmilling.com/store/#central-milling-organic https://centralmilling.com/store/#central-milling-organic most of it's out of stock as of right now, but they're updating their stock every day. I was able to order a 25 pound bag of flour from them yesterday. Take a look in the morning and you may have some luck.
- convolvatron 7y ago
  just for reference ordered 50lb from central on .. 4/3, shipped on 4/6 and it arrived fedex in sf on 4/7
JeanMarcS 7y ago
There’s something I don’t really understand here (south east Ireland). There also is no flour. Mmm, I mean « normal » flour. Was in Tesco yesterday for the (now) weekly shop visit and they were putting bags and bags of flour. But only self raising and plain ones. I wonder if the producers of the flour do this on purpose (those flours are way more expensive than basic ones)
- Xylakant 7y ago
  in germany, getting kilo-packs of flour is hard. I have access to metro, which is a supermarket/distributor for businesses and they had tons of flour, but only 25kg packs for commercial buyers. It's even marked on the package "Nur zum gewerblichen Gebrauch". So there's flour - it's just not in your distribution chain.
  - organsnyder 7y ago
    There's been an article floating around that posits that the same thing is happening with toilet paper: plenty of "institutional" product is available (since many businesses are closed), but not "home" product (since people are not only hoarding but also using the restroom at home more).
    - Xylakant 7y ago
      yes, you can see that in quite a few categories of products: Canned Tomatoes, 2.5 kg cans available. 500g cans: out. Pasta, 500g Spaghetti? Forget it. 5kg bulk: Available. Yeast, regular cubes: no way. Ordering half a kilo of dry yeast: no problem. It's just that as a regular normal family, 500g of yeast will get you through a year or two, depending on how much you bake (that's about the equivalent of 75 packets of dry yeast) But that stuff is also impossible to repackage into smaller quantities without exposing it to spoilage. There's a few supermarkets in Berlin that sell unpackaged stuff (basically you bring your own reusable container and they fill it for you) and they're well stocked in flour, pasta and stuff since they solve the repackaging issue at the point of sale.
    - pmoriarty 7y ago

24t 7y ago

Since retail and commercial supply chains are different I'd suggest reaching out to a restaurant you have good rapport with or contacting a local drygoods supplier. Flour is out there it's just not making it to the shelves.

Kaibeezy 7y ago
Ooh, good idea. I have a friend who’s got her restaurant on life support. She could bag up flour and sell it!
OJFord 7y ago
In the UK a few weeks ago commercial suppliers were complaining that they had all this stock they couldn't shift because it was packaged incorrectly - not flashily marketed or sized too large. Now the ones that did open up to retail customers seem widely sold out of the desirable stuff...
_ph_ 7y ago
Or just ask at the next bakery.

Raed667 7y ago

I had this exact same issue, but if you're willing to buy "pizza-packs" or "bread-packs" or whatever marketing they put on it. It's just flour + sourdough for a markup.

newman8r 7y ago

you can check with with https://centralmilling.com/store/#central-milling-organic https://centralmilling.com/store/#central-milling-organic most of it's out of stock as of right now, but they're updating their stock every day. I was able to order a 25 pound bag of flour from them yesterday. Take a look in the morning and you may have some luck.

convolvatron 7y ago
just for reference ordered 50lb from central on .. 4/3, shipped on 4/6 and it arrived fedex in sf on 4/7

JeanMarcS 7y ago

There’s something I don’t really understand here (south east Ireland). There also is no flour. Mmm, I mean « normal » flour. Was in Tesco yesterday for the (now) weekly shop visit and they were putting bags and bags of flour. But only self raising and plain ones. I wonder if the producers of the flour do this on purpose (those flours are way more expensive than basic ones)

Xylakant 7y ago
in germany, getting kilo-packs of flour is hard. I have access to metro, which is a supermarket/distributor for businesses and they had tons of flour, but only 25kg packs for commercial buyers. It's even marked on the package "Nur zum gewerblichen Gebrauch". So there's flour - it's just not in your distribution chain.
- organsnyder 7y ago
  There's been an article floating around that posits that the same thing is happening with toilet paper: plenty of "institutional" product is available (since many businesses are closed), but not "home" product (since people are not only hoarding but also using the restroom at home more).
  - Xylakant 7y ago
    yes, you can see that in quite a few categories of products: Canned Tomatoes, 2.5 kg cans available. 500g cans: out. Pasta, 500g Spaghetti? Forget it. 5kg bulk: Available. Yeast, regular cubes: no way. Ordering half a kilo of dry yeast: no problem. It's just that as a regular normal family, 500g of yeast will get you through a year or two, depending on how much you bake (that's about the equivalent of 75 packets of dry yeast) But that stuff is also impossible to repackage into smaller quantities without exposing it to spoilage. There's a few supermarkets in Berlin that sell unpackaged stuff (basically you bring your own reusable container and they fill it for you) and they're well stocked in flour, pasta and stuff since they solve the repackaging issue at the point of sale.
  - pmoriarty 7y ago