Bob's Red Mill Organic Dark Rye Flour, 20oz

Like all Bob's products... well made and they make the bread taste great.

I grew up in the 1940's -1950's in Milwaukee with rye bread baked in a German bakery. There was a stout rye and a light rye my parents bought. I liked both. Store bought rye today is really white bread with tiny amount of rye and some color added to turn it brown. Grocery stores don't sell enough rye to keep it in stock so on line is only way now. I have purchased Bob's Red Mill Organic Dark Rye Flour, 20oz (Pack of 4) eleven times now. I tried a few other brands first but settled on Bobs, a good value and quality flour. In my light rye recipe, 400 grams AP or bread flour and 50 grams of this rye flour with 300 grams of filtered water. This amount makes an excellent light rye bread. My recipe, basically. An experienced baker will know the details. Start with a poolish over night using 200 grams AP or bread flour and 50 grams rye, 1/4 tsp instant yeast and 300 grams of filtered water. Mix and cover. Same day 3 hour poolish, increase instant yeast to 1/2 tsp. The ingredient quantities for next day, 1.5 instant yeast, 1-2 tsp sugar for crust color, 1.5 tsp salt, The dry ingredients added next morning. Mix and let rise one hour. Should double or close to it. Then hand kneed a minute or two, dough will be elastic. Form a log and place in 2 qt clay baker, (purchased at Amazon), no parchment needed. Let rise about 35 minutes till dough barely crests the baker bottom lip. Oven spring finishes the rise. Cold oven start, bake around 35 minutes to 200F internal. Baker lid soaked in water during rise in the clay baker. Place wet lid on baker bottom prior to placing in cold oven. Wet lid creates steam for nice crust. Cold start protects the clay baker from thermal shock breakage and makes no difference in bread quality.

I use this for my starters, and it works very well for that. I like the small size because it is practical and easy to store. I also like that I can reseal it, which helps keep it fresh. The fact that it is organic is a needed plus.

this was so much less expensive than you get at the local supermarket. we love rye bread and i make it almost weekly, this flour makes a bakery quality loaf of bread.

S-tier for building a sourdough starter. Where other flours failed me, this one shined!

Packaging was just as expected. Took longer than advertised to receive item. Once you order the vendor will send you an updated shipping date which was a week later. So only order from this vendor if you are n no hurry to get your item.

They stopped selling my flour at the store so had to buy here. Lucked out because think it’s cheaper here anyway. I’ve been using this for years for my sourdough. Great brand. Shipped quick

We love black bread. And this particular flour is just right for us to get the bread we like. Using it in a bread machine, I add most of the flour as this one, plus a little wheat flour. I also feed my sourdough starter with this flour. I've bought this brand countless times already. Completely satisfied.

Great Rye Flour at a good price

Delivered promptly in good condition. Happy with the purchase.

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I used it in my bread machine, it was very easy to incorporate it into recipes. Very satisfied and will definitely purchase again!

Good product