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The type of "bread" they are referring to doesn't use yeast. McDonald's buns are basically sweetened dough with air beaten into it. Definitely suggest people ea

The type of "bread" they are referring to doesn't use yeast. McDonald's buns are basically sweetened dough with air beaten into it. Definitely suggest people eat McDonald's "food" bit by bit if you're into it. Might just put you off. And, in any case, you don't need to put sugar in for yeast. The best bread has nothing of the sort. Just flour, yeast, salt and water.

adrian_b 3y ago
Even the salt is optional. I prefer to not include salt in bread, but I add the required daily amount of salt to other kinds of food, where the added salt really improves the taste.
- bigfudge 3y ago
  Salt really does improve the flavour of bread. I’m impressed you have got used to bread without salt because it tastes awful to me unless eaten with salty foods.
  - rhaway84773 3y ago
    The Tuscany region of Italy traditionally uses unsalted bread. When used “correctly” as part of a charcuterie plate and/or along with salty stews and meats, this works. However, many tend to use this bread like they would any other, and frankly it’s well known for how horrible it tastes. Bread without salt does not taste good at all, unless you’re a highly partisan Tuscan.
    - YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago
      >> Bread without salt does not taste good at all, unless you’re a highly partisan Tuscan. Have you personally tried it? I cook for a relative who can't eat salt for health reasons and I make bread for them too, without salt. It tastes from bland to quite-decent=actually, depending on the amount of wholemeal flours I use. For example, 1/3 each of strong white flour, wholemeal wheat and wholemeal dark rye tastes good and smells divine as it bakes. I think when people say that saltless bread tastes bad they mean plain white bread.
  - adrian_b 3y ago
    I usually eat the bread mixed with olive oil which has a strong flavor. Adding salt would have little if any positive effect.
- globular-toast 3y ago
  Nah, salt isn't optional. It's totally possible to eat well and enjoy it. In my experience, people who are afraid of salt usually consume tons of hidden salt in things they don't make themselves.
  - JohnFen 3y ago
    It's optional in the sense that it isn't required in order to successfully produce a loaf of bread. Same with sugar. Bread certainly tastes a whole lot better with salt, which is why it's used, but that doesn't make it mandatory.
Lanolderen 3y ago
Ain't the best bread without some gochujang. :^)

adrian_b 3y ago

Even the salt is optional. I prefer to not include salt in bread, but I add the required daily amount of salt to other kinds of food, where the added salt really improves the taste.

bigfudge 3y ago
Salt really does improve the flavour of bread. I’m impressed you have got used to bread without salt because it tastes awful to me unless eaten with salty foods.
- rhaway84773 3y ago
  The Tuscany region of Italy traditionally uses unsalted bread. When used “correctly” as part of a charcuterie plate and/or along with salty stews and meats, this works. However, many tend to use this bread like they would any other, and frankly it’s well known for how horrible it tastes. Bread without salt does not taste good at all, unless you’re a highly partisan Tuscan.
  - YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago
    >> Bread without salt does not taste good at all, unless you’re a highly partisan Tuscan. Have you personally tried it? I cook for a relative who can't eat salt for health reasons and I make bread for them too, without salt. It tastes from bland to quite-decent=actually, depending on the amount of wholemeal flours I use. For example, 1/3 each of strong white flour, wholemeal wheat and wholemeal dark rye tastes good and smells divine as it bakes. I think when people say that saltless bread tastes bad they mean plain white bread.
- adrian_b 3y ago
  I usually eat the bread mixed with olive oil which has a strong flavor. Adding salt would have little if any positive effect.
globular-toast 3y ago
Nah, salt isn't optional. It's totally possible to eat well and enjoy it. In my experience, people who are afraid of salt usually consume tons of hidden salt in things they don't make themselves.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  It's optional in the sense that it isn't required in order to successfully produce a loaf of bread. Same with sugar. Bread certainly tastes a whole lot better with salt, which is why it's used, but that doesn't make it mandatory.

Lanolderen 3y ago

Ain't the best bread without some gochujang. :^)