Where can I buy Yeast in quanity?

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Has anyone bought alot of yeast? I just figured out something... I need more!!!!

I seem to go through one pound of yeast per 20 pounds of wheat.

I have 1000# of wheat and only one case of yeast (12#)....Its a nice problem to have but still a problem. Glad I figured this out with a few days to spare. Just barley!

-- bulldog (sniffin@around.com), December 13, 1999

Answers

If you have a Gordon's Food Supply store in your area, they carry large quantities of all kinds of food, including big bags of yeast. I was there, today. (They service institutions, but we plain folks can buy there, too.)

-- Jo Ann (MaJo@Michiana.com), December 13, 1999.

Sam's Club carries yeast in one pound vacuum-sealed bricks.

-- Jim Morris (jim_morris@hushmail.com), December 13, 1999.

don't buy the Sam's yeast, it has to be used 7 days after opening. No matter how much bread you'll be making, you won't use that. Buy Red Star in the jar, or Fleishman's, I've got some with Dec 00 expiration.

-- b (nah@rathernot.com), December 13, 1999.

Hey thanks guys.....

I found some (a friend told me to check out this web page). I did a search for Penner's Pantry. This Lady is only about 1 hr from me, anway, I can get Saf-Yeast in 1# vac-sealed bags for $3.99. It is really good yeast, I have used it before.

Thanks again for all of the sudgestions.

-- bulldog (sniffin@around.com), December 13, 1999.


Oh.... and I have to correct myself. I go through one pound of yeast per every 50# wheat..... not 20#.

-- bulldog (sniffin@around.com), December 13, 1999.


Sam's Club sells yeast in 2 - 1 lb vaccuum packed bricks. Open one brick, put the other back in the cellar. Put the contents of the opened brick in a canning jar and keep in a cool place.

This yeast works best in recipes where you proof the yeast ( let it double in warm water ) before adding to dry ingredients. The Sam's Club yeast doesn't seem to do well in the "rapid-rise" type recipes where it is mixed with the dry ingredients and very warm liquid is added.

Go buy 25 bricks of yeast at Sam's and learn to make "Herman" and sourdough before the yeast all runs out.

-- urth (urthmomma@aohell.com), December 13, 1999.


Consider the alternative of using sour dough starter. You just add more flour (and maybe a little sugar) and wait a few more days to make more. This is a (nearly) perpetual supply...

Also, for yeast, try the restaurant & bakery supply stores. Check your yellow pages under Bakers' supplies.

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), December 13, 1999.


I was facing the same problem then a neighbor gave me sourdough starter. It makes the best bread next to my Grandma's paska that I have ever tasted. This starter has been making bread in the neighborhood for years. Like paska it takes potatos--3 tablespoons of potato flakes/batch. But the batch makes 6 big loaves of bread using only 5 lbs of flour. With regular yeast bread I use eggs and 5 lbs of flour will make only 4 loaves of bread. So this sourdough thing is great. You might want to try some. Oh, and another thing, when you separate the dough into loaves, you do not have to knead for twenty minutes as with regular yeast bread--just give the sourdough 10 pushes and plop it in the pans. Pam

-- Pam (jpjgood@penn.com), December 13, 1999.

I have a lb bag of yeast I purchased from Sam's a year ago and it is still making my bread. I keep it in the freezer and use it straight out of the freezer. I know if the power goes out, no freezer but I can have a sourdough starter in no time. Hint: dip a clean piece of cloth in a good sour dough starter and let it dry. Fold and put away in an air tight jar/bag. This is the way the pioneers carried the starter over the ocean and on wagan trains. Put the cloth in a little warm water and let it set until bubbly, add flour and water until enough starter is ready use. I have lots of dried starter put away.

-- Carol (glear@usa.net), December 14, 1999.

Bulk Red Star and other yeasts available from King Arthur Flour catalogue. May be on web; if not call 800 operator. They have various kinds of dried egg, other useful products, too. Not necessarily cheap but quick!

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), December 14, 1999.


don't buy the Sam's yeast, it has to be used 7 days after opening. No matter how much bread you'll be making, you won't use that. Buy Red Star in the jar, or Fleishman's, I've got some with Dec 00 expiration.

-- b (nah@rathernot.com), December 13, 1999.

I have never had a problem with Sam's Club yeast. I always store opened yeast in the freezer in a tightly closed canning jar. I've got some in there that's over a year old that still works just fine.

-- Jim Morris (jim_morris@hushmail.com), December 14, 1999.


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