Another great video Sam! Good on you for giving Gluten free baking a try, and for highlighting the expense if you need to eat "free from". I'm fully lactose intolerant & find Arla Lactofree milk, butter & cheese is the best for me, but it's definitely expensive for what you get
Welcome to my life - living on 150 a month for food and not eating gluten. The thing to do is to just not eat bread, pasta or pastry. The 'free from' versions are expensive, full of ultra-processed nasties and mostly not that nice. I eat lots of rice, lentils, beans, potatoes and corn tortillas. Oat flour and cornflour can be used in sauces.
We have to buy some lactose free and gluten free products as Carolina has mild gluten intolerance and is fully dairy intolerant, so we do fully understand how tough it is. Free from bits adds so much to the weekly shop :/ it’s unfair!
Totally agree here! I had to do an elimination diet for a while, so no wheat or gluten allowed. The preservatives and other "nasties" as you call them in the gluten free products made my symptoms way worse, so like you, I ended up avoiding all of it
Yes, if you're Coeliac you shouldn't eat oats - there are some gluten free oats though. The reason is that oats are often processed in the same machines as wheat so the cross contact levels are above 20 parts per million which is the cut off in the UK. Interestingly in Australia and New Zealand oats are considered Coeliac safe. I'm not sure why perhaps they have different processing methods or a different cut off level?
@@SamWilder.definitely. When I was first diagnosed as coeliac, I was shocked at just how much gluten impacted different meals. It’s something that you never really think about (well, at least for me it wasn’t)
Mama rice noodles are an easy go too. They are cheap, filling, gluten free certified (other brands also available). Most of the tomato based sauces will already be gluten free but white sauces often have wheat or oats in the ingredients as the gluten thickens the sauce and stops the ingredients from separating.
Thank you Sam that was great I am in the process of making a sourdough gluten free starter it takes about 6 days to make and it will be with that flour you used so fingers crossed I am doing it for my friend who is gluten free
I definitely have no tips for any sort of baking, let along gluten free! I do think however you may have been able to blitz that bread up with some garlic and herbs and maybe fry off in a pan to create a nice crumb? Good vid!
In regards to the bread, maybe the egg whites and vinegar are important exactly because the flour is gluten free? I've never baked anything gluten-free so I'm not 100% certain. But egg whites are a leavening agent, and the vinegar act as a stabelizer to egg whites, so I would imagine that those two components might be extremely important for the end result of a gluten-free bread, especially if the recipe you're using says to add them.
Haha, that's what I was thinking. Reads that it needs egg whites and vinegar, but then proceeds to ignore said advice, and then ends up with terrible bread 😆
Exactly that, the egg whites basically replace the gluten in all gluten free baking. I yelled at my screen "oh no, no, no, they are very important!" when the egg whites were omitted. 😂 For best results, whip the egg whites until stiff like you would for meringue and fold them in last, this goes for cakes too. The dough or batter should always be slightly more moist than normal as gluten free flour is more hydrophilic than wheat flour. Don't worry we all made a bread brick our first time too. It's a gluten free baking rite of passage. ☺
I’m not sure 💯 but I think I watched a vlog some time ago and there’s is something to improve it.i think it’s bicarbonate of soda or baking soda,either one.
I have a condition where I can develop "allergy" type reactions without actual allergies, and it's never simple to figure out what's causing trouble this time, so I'm usually cutting out *something* just to check. It was gluten for a month earlier this year, and none of my bread worked despite being a good baker and following instructions precisely. One of them tasted good though, so if I could have just got it to rise it would have been great! One rose too much and I'm still trying to get the dough out of the join between the floorboards, where it turned into The Blob and set off on a journey... 🤣
My mum is coeliac so eats gluten free and when she makes bread she adds xanthan gum so that might be worth a try? It just stabilises the bread so it makes it less dense and it's really useful in gluten free bakes.
think would have been better using the dairy that is gluten free for more flavour. so much gluten free stuff is feral thats processed. good efforts though the chicken looked easy to make
As a partner of a coeliac it just isnt worth using GF options. It's far better to learn to cook and to specifically learn to cook cuisines that don't use wheat. Gluten free bread and cake etc is just awful and £3.50 for a loaf of bad, small bread is annoying. GF Flour is ok and you can certainly make nice cakes gf. Little tip on your hunters chicken, you used thighs which have skin on. It's better to either take the skin off or crisp them up before wrapping them in bacon. That skin is going to be really unpleasant to eat
Yeah I think I likely could cook without using the specific products a very decent Gf meal quite easily. Wanted to experiment with the products available! Knew my mistake with the thighs the second I did it, just didn’t crisp them up long enough but hey ho. Was still good :)
Did it say what kind of vinegar you needed for the bread because malt vinegar contains gluten. You'd be surprised how many things contain vinegar. My mum is gluten free and I was horrified how much extra it cost me to make everything gluten free for our Christmas lunch - she only got diagnosed last year.
@@SamWilder. Yeah that would make sense. You'd think they'd state white vinegar though, some people are newly diagnosed and if they are older like my mum, might not know that it should be white vinegar (I use it for cleaning so kind of forget it's also edible lol). Not everyone has internet access to check either. After all they put contains nuts on things like peanut butter 😂.
I eat mostly gluten free bec gluten bloats me and give me terrible acid stomach. Bread etc is terribly expensive, pasta not so much, but it's still a lot more expensive than standard pasta. Well done for doing this. Those celiacs don't have a choice and the NHS don't give them food anymore. Don't know how some people survive if they have no money.
Rice, rice is our friend.🍚🤗 Potatoes are also good. I hardly ever buy gluten free products anymore, not just because of the crazy cost, but the amount of ultra processing it goes through. I find Baking them at home is cheaper and healthier.
Please canyou blink more in your videos, otherwise it feels like you've staring into the depths of my soul. Oh and I enjoy your videos so keep up the work.
bro some people are allergic to the protein in cows milk or the gluten in bread be mindful that just because other people eat different thing doesn't mean you need to have a pissy fit about it
Coeliac disease is an autoimmune disease where it makes people violently ill if they eat gluten. Some people are allergic to dairy - I know a friends daughter who has a bad allergic reaction to dairy. Open your mind to other people's illnesses.
