My brother works out of Hovis in Dagenham lorry driving. Obviously gets loaves cheap, around 40p a loaf. He drops us off some round now and again, the seeded ones are my favs. When shopping, the Aldi tiger bloomer is my fav.
I gave up on supermarket brown bread ages ago. The recipe in all of them changed. They all now had a slightly malty flavour. My bread of choice now is Tesco Finest Oat & Barley. Tasty, 'natural' or toasted. On my mission to M&S I picked up my favourite bread - their soda bread. A taste from home 😊
Warburtons has always been our go to for atleast 30 years now. The size of it lends itself to butties better, bit of a pig at times for fitting in the toaster without trimming the top though
On the Aldi loaf it says there , right in the middle - PRESERVATIVE: calcium propionate, aka E282. A widely used, generally harmless mould inhibitor with little or no side effects
Out of those 3, I would choose Aldi. Not because of the price, but the ingredients. I've heard the M&S one is nice, but that too contains the wretched palm oil and soya flour, so that's a no go. I buy Jacksons of Yorkshire (preferably with a yellow sticker), it's palm and soya free. Glad you're using proper butter again! I've seen someone put a dob on the slice of bread and then microwave it for a few seconds... Interesting review, Gaz!
This was very interesting. I ❤️ this comparison. Very helpful thank you for pointing out about the preservatives. Local bakers also help the local economy if you can afford the extra cost even occasionally. That bread 🍞 looks 😋!
Worth remembering that for the supermarkets (and Aldi, Lidl etc) bread can be a lost leader. Many will look at items like that and milk as key to where they shop, the supermarkets have loads more items with much more profit, the bakers etc have less leeway to do that
Gareth, bought one of those from Aldi on Monday and it still tasted and felt so fresh today on Friday when doing Toast this morning ! That'll do for me ! Top video as always .... Fascinating stuff. Thank you as always ! 👏😉👍
Yes, Aldi is likeable and half the price but, only has half the shelf life before the green stuff starts to appear. You could With a probe to measure the moisture content.
I never have space in my freezer for bread, so I end up making croutons with it in the oven when I'm cooking something else. It's handy to have instant crunchy bread and it lasts a surprisingly long time!
Unless you know for a fact they cook their own many small bakeries just buy in from larger producers, my local was a regular haunt, then one day I saw the delivery, asked and they confirmed they did not produce any bread, they bought in loaves, buns and rolls
I have preferred brown bread since I was a nipper, far better taste and feels softer and fresher than white. But 3 loaves 😮all that fibre, you could have done a toilet roll comparison at the same time 😂
I personally tend to get hovis nimble. I'm not on any diet but it has a beautiful malty flavour especially when spread with lurpak. (Pushed the boat out this week and bought a pack) great review Gareth. Cheers mate
Those preservers are there to reduce the amount of salt in the loaf. Bake it yourself, use a good teaspoon of salt in the dough and you'll get good shelf life. Government interference in eveything means that what we used to know about food preservation (even if in this case for just a few days) is being lost..😢😢
I am always partial to the Morrisons in-store bakery bread, particularly the Tiger and Seasalt and Black Pepper loafs as they're the only supermarket to make from scratch. Used to work at Asda and let me tell you, the look on the new store managers face who came from Morrisons when I told him that no, I couldn't bake off bread from scratch was priceless! I also like the tiger bloomer from Morrisons and Asda from the bought in range - that could be a good comparison to do as despite appearances being the same, the ingredients differ.
The preservatives in the Aldi bread are named rather than by E number. I think local bakers charge about 50p just to slice a loaf they have always charged an arm and a leg to just slice something.
I loved the Hovis advert where the delivery boy would push up bike to top of hill ,Then go down hill at 60 mph with no brakes , I can here the Grimethorpe Colliery band to this day ..
I hope your local baker has diversified and provides a few tables and chairs (even outside if the weather is good) and makes rolls - maybe buns or cakes and cups of tea or coffee.
This week Tesco substituted our three Warburton's white Toastie loaves with Hovis wholemeal! what were they thinking? The texture of the Hovis is dreadful, really sticky. It's ok toasted, but really unpleasant in the mouth when used in a sandwich. We usually have one brown loaf, the Warburton's wholemeal is fine. Even the 80p Tesco brown wholemeal toastie is ok, but the Hovis is just sticky. My favourite at Tesco is their own brand seeded or multigrain loaves which sell for £1.
Only go to Asda now for white tin products which are cheap and good and now shop at aldi and especially Lidl for most of the rest of my shop and the price difference is a big saving and no loss of quality, and both do a good wine range....
Bowl of hot water, tea towel, butter knife. Dip then wipe knife dry, use your butter easily without keep nuking. Thin slice across your butter, works for me! XXX
I find the variation in quality much less in wholemeal! We don't eat too much bread and keep it in the freezer - it's generally for toast! I get the Aldi now although Sainsburys do a very good one!
Hi Gareth loving your videos. Just wondering if you've ever made toast with your air fryer. I'm thinking of getting one but the only space i have is where my toaster currently is.
Aldi's wholemeal is better because it's not as what I would call 'airy fairy' like the others, it tastes as good as well. Their Farmhouse is just as good and personally if they cost the same as the others, I would still buy them out of preference.
Hi Gareth I used to buy eat the hovis but it started tasting to sweet,so been on worbertons now for over a year simply because it has no added sugar great reviews mate
I buy the Tesco stockwell? wholemeal loaf at 39p. Seems fine to me, I actually really like it. I wouldn't pay double for the Aldi loaf or even more again for the branded options. As for the butter taste I feel the fresher and softer the bread the more likely it will break up trying to spread hard butter. I think its important to point out that the fresh bread from places like Aldi and Lidl and other smaller supermarkets are parbaked which is full of yeast and addictives. The pre-packed bread can actually be much healthier than the so called fresh bread. However bigger supermarkets like big Morrisons, Asda and Tesco's bake their own bread properly which is better and healthier. Parbaked bread still tastes nice but it goes off quickly and the high levels of yeast could effect some people who are yeast sensitive. The great thing about parbaked bread is you can often find it heavily reduced in price at the end of the day as it has a very short shelf life. My coop store does some big reductions on it like baguettes for 9p.
Try having to buy Gluten-free & Lactose-free products. They have us over-a-barrel & can charge what they like cos they know we haven’t a choice but to pay it. Aldi don’t stock gluten-free as far as I know so I have to pay Tesco prices……£2.80 for 1 pack of 2 Warburtons Thins, (4 slices), that’s if I want bread half decent enough to use for a sandwich. For toast for breakfast I have to pay the same for a small Warburtons brown or white loaf or Free-from is much the same price. The bread never tastes baked enough to me, but I can just bear it toasted with an egg or beans on it.
@@BaldFoodieGuy Nothing at all. They actively refuse to open any stores in Northern Ireland. Yet Lidl has managed it and has swept up the whole challenger market. Madness. And the longer they hold off, the more difficult it becomes to gain any foothold in the NI market.
I generally find most brown loaves to be ok nomatter how inexpensive, but i find alot of difference in white loaves and cannot stand cheap (supermarket brand) white bread, so i tend to usually grab a warburtons white loaf, or better when they're reduced.
Dad always told us to "work" the butter with the knife when it was cold....helps to soften it up for spreading. Fair do's on the bread Gareth, I'd be opting for the cheaper one too considering there's no difference in taste, only the price. Looked like you needed loads more butter on that toast too...love wholemeal bread as there's more flavour and the white bread texture is like styrofoam. 😋👍🏻
I keep my bread in the freezer. To make a sandwich I take a couple of slices out and butter them when frozen. That way they don't get ripped to shreds. I then microwave them on medium heat to defrost.
There was an old fashioned Hovis bakery just at the end of our street. They sold the nicest bread, all natural ingredients, no oils, or excess salt/sugar. Bread needs an overhaul in it's manufacturing, too many preservatives and it is not fresh by any means. But i must say Aldi's seeded low G.I is delicious with butter and marmalade. Each to their own as far as personal taste is concerned, otherwise there would only be one type of bread.
The price between the local baker's bread and supermarket bread is because the supermarket loaves are made using the Chorleywood process, which means they can use cheaper lower-protein grains for the flour, as well as the time difference and the obvious economy of scale. I do use the baker for a speciality bread now and again, such as foccacia or ciabatta, although these are now widely available in supermarkets as well, I do prefer them from the baker. For my daily bread, I usually just use wholemeal from Lidl, but the difference between the branded makes and the supermarket own breads in terms of taste/quality and price is fairly minimal these days, so I use a variety including Hovis and Warburtons, as well as the 'Village Bakery' brand. I tend to buy thick sliced, though, as I find the medium sliced a bit too thin. I occassionally get a tiger loaf from a supermarket with a baker as well, as it's great for doorstop sandwiches.
I used to buy some bread from the Baltic Triangle in Liverpool, which was about £4; it was gorgeous and was eaten before it went off. I normally do buy bread from the supermarket, as it's nice to spoil yourself with proper bread, but it's too expensive for an everyday thing.
@@neilwinterbottom2334 If that's for me, yes. Work and my kids and grandkids. If you are a young pup, do you mean to nightclubs and shit because that's a young man's game? Once you've done that for a few years it becomes boring, and then you find yourself older and enjoy the little magics in life; like nice bread and shitty stuff that younger people laugh at.
I wonder how long, in the current financial crisis, it will take Hovis and Warburton's to realise that more expensive isn't better. You can put lipstick on a pig, but... it's still a pig and, you've heard it before here folks - there's no prestige in being ripped off! When they're laying staff off and closing bakeries they'll ask themselves where it all went wrong.
When doing bread tests you should check how long they last before going mouldy. There is a huge difference between brands and pricing. Waxed packaging seems to do best and acetic acid best for preserving. The ones with a lot of Soya flour disagree with my stomach these days, a lot of wind in the south......
Hey BFG, it would be unfair to include Local Suppliers re; pricing, in fact it could even be slightly unfair with the supermarkets, as they have different price bandings for different areas of the country, but where do you draw the line and stop? When spreading butter, i find spreading from the bottom upwards (so turn your slice around 180*) doesnt seem to tear the slice quite as easy. :) Dont forget, these Huge Bakers with their own R&D dept’s have found out how to get the maximum amount of water in a loaf to get the weight with the smallest amount of ‘costly’ items in as possible. With the cost of Wheat Flour going up, it may well be a good idea to keep a weather eye on the ingredients, in case they start slipping in this locust/cricket flour, watch out for words such as locustis, or grillis.
Aldi is generally the cheapest where I live but I have shelf stable almond milk and it shot right up the other day......I went to Aldi specifically for it too so I wasted my fuel money......In Australia as soon as The 1st o Dec comes I feel supermarkets just think 'party time' and how far they can push their prices up B4 people refuse to pay it.......ALSO people out there keep a close eye on your insrance renewals....... One of our insrance companies was sending us renewals 3 MONTHS EARLY from when it is due, CHECK THE DATE ON THE LETTER WHEN IT IS DUE AND DON']T PAY IT A DAY EARLIER THAN REQUIRED.
The best bread is what you bake yourself. Flour, water, yeast and salt. End of. If I haven't time the Aldi's Village Bakery range is best. Some good stuff there.
I know lakeland are expensive but they do a stainless steel butter dish and you don’t need to put the butter in the fridge it’s stays spreadable the dish is double walled just like a flask inside, I use real butter I don’t like spreads give it a try I got one for my son in Australia as he uses real butter as well
Great review Gareth, we say it's 'Claggy' in Leicester when something is dry or chewy and hard to swallow. Co-op wholemeal is dark and a lovely flavour, it's only 75p at moment with your members card.
My first choice wound be warburtons, as it’s got a lovely taste, followed by the Aldi. Nothing wrong with it and great value. However M&S do a wholemeal brown loaf at 80p which I would choose over any of these three any day!! It’s delicious.
I've always thought that aldi and lidl bread is very good , great price too . could you do a comparison with aldi lidl and asda's own brand canned ciders such as the dark fruits and other flavours they do .. also there peanut butter is worth a look at too , great video .
I don’t buy bread very often because I can’t eat a whole loaf before it goes off. I’m not keen on defrosted bread so I won’t freeze bread. Half loaves cost nearly as much as a full loaf. Aldi’s bread is what I buy when I do get some in just because it’s the cheapest around.
I love bread and eat it every day. I like all kinds of bread. Tesco oat & barley, Tesco sourdough rye, Lidl ancient grains, French baguettes, Polish bread, Pumpernickel (delicious with smoked salmon or prosciutto), and many others.
Thanks Gareth I normally buy Warburton wholemeal less suger loaf but ur comparison has told me aldi wholemeal loaf has less suger and salt so I'll b going to aldi now thankyou from david Peterborough
I have to admit I do buy fresh uncut bread from a local baker (lucky to have one), do have bread like this in freezer in emergency, but not a fan. My Dad used to love uncut brown bread said it was better after about 4 days+
