The top bread thread

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Assume we're all in agreement?

1. Focaccia 

2. Sourdough 

3. Naan, specifically the garlic variety 

4. Ciabatta 

5. Brioche 

[swannymere]

1. Naan (any)

2. Pão de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread)

3. Baguette (made in France)

4. Crumpets

5. British Bloomer

Sourdough only good for toast, brioche is a crime against bread and Foccacia is too modern.

[skintsaint]

Can't beat a buttered Dutch crunch with some freshly made thick Pumpkin soup mid-winter......

[badgerx16]

9 hours ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Assume we're all in agreement?

1. Focaccia 

2. Sourdough 

3. Naan, specifically the garlic variety 

4. Ciabatta 

5. Brioche 

Brioche is a cake, sourdough is just "no", and I can't stand garlic, so sorry, we are not all in agreement.

[trousers]

Large baps

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, trousers said:

Large baps

Thank you for the suggestion, Mr Polanski. 🙂

[egg]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

Brioche is a cake, sourdough is just "no", and I can't stand garlic, so sorry, we are not all in agreement.

Agreed, other than garlic naan, which is an essential with a ruby.

I'm convinced that people that feel they should like Sourdough, it's just horrible.

Yep, Brioche is a cake, and why people stuck a burger between it I'll never know. You wouldn't do it with a doughnut so why with Brioche. 

Give me a crusty loaf or roll and that'll do for me. 

[Turkish]

12 minutes ago, egg said:

Agreed, other than garlic naan, which is an essential with a ruby.

I'm convinced that people that feel they should like Sourdough, it's just horrible.

Yep, Brioche is a cake, and why people stuck a burger between it I'll never know. You wouldn't do it with a doughnut so why with Brioche. 

Give me a crusty loaf or roll and that'll do for me. 

Sourdough is meant to be more healthy isn’t it? It’s alright but it’s part of this hipster artisan bread bullshit fad

i don’t eat a lot of bread other than getting a sausage or bacon bap at kids football however a nice slice of toast sometimes with a good think slab of butter can be nice. Or a baguette with some nice meats, cheese and salad

 

[suewhistle]

Nooo.. /Sue weeps into her sourdough culture/.

Foccaccia modern? It's the original hearth bread!

Brioche is great for bread and butter pudding.

Poor love not liking garlic, my condolences..

Can I also suggest pizza, which is basically bread, but it needs a long fermentation and must be wood fired. I'll wait until the weather is better and not so windy as the smoke inevitably follows you around..

[skintsaint]

1 hour ago, egg said:

Agreed, other than garlic naan, which is an essential with a ruby.

Keema naan for me, not a fan of the garlic. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

In the last couple of weeks,  I picked up fig, apricot and cranberry sourdough and a cranberry, raisin and cashew bloomer from Tesco.

Both lovely, and nice with salads or pretty much anything. 

[whelk]

Time and a place so cannot rank. Don’t know anyone who puts bacon in a Naan for breakfast. 
Sourdough overrated. 

Our local Sainsbury’s seems to consistently overbake their bread which seems baffling that not been addressed. Maybe I need to up the protest outside head office until I get heard?

 

[whelk]

5 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

In the last couple of weeks,  I picked up fig, apricot and cranberry sourdough and a cranberry, raisin and cashew bloomer from Tesco.

Both lovely, and nice with salads or pretty much anything. 

Woke!

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 minute ago, whelk said:

Woke!

And also lovely to take on a picnic to a demonstration atop your bandwagon. 🙂

[egg]

23 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

Keema naan for me, not a fan of the garlic. 

Nice! That's great too. 

[badgerx16]

2 hours ago, suewhistle said:

 

Brioche is great for bread and butter pudding.

Precisely, it's a cake and goes well in a pudding. It is not bread.

2 hours ago, suewhistle said:

Poor love not liking garlic, my condolences..

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Garlic should be left to the French. Horrible stuff.

Edited Tuesday at 12:07 by badgerx16

[revolution saint]

Warburtons White, or if I'm feeling healthy then their best of both.  End of the day, it's bread. 

Curious to know which water people prefer though.

[whelk]

13 minutes ago, revolution saint said:

Warburtons White, or if I'm feeling healthy then their best of both.  End of the day, it's bread. 

Curious to know which water people prefer though.

Sparkling 

[revolution saint]

4 minutes ago, whelk said:

Sparkling 

Pah! Pretentious middle class crap.  And most of it is probably foreign.  Wouldn't even make my top 10. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

3 hours ago, revolution saint said:

Warburtons White, or if I'm feeling healthy then their best of both.  End of the day, it's bread. 

Curious to know which water people prefer though.

I'll normally at least try for a healthier, low additive bread.

However, it really has to be something like thick Warburton's white for french toast. 

[Gloucester Saint]

7 hours ago, Turkish said:

Sourdough is meant to be more healthy isn’t it? It’s alright but it’s part of this hipster artisan bread bullshit fad

i don’t eat a lot of bread other than getting a sausage or bacon bap at kids football however a nice slice of toast sometimes with a good think slab of butter can be nice. Or a baguette with some nice meats, cheese and salad

 

Sourdough relatively easy to make, and trendy so big mark up, hence a lot of the Cotswold stone towns have got bakeries springing up making it. Moreton in particular has a lot of bakeries for a small town. 

Our local bakers is a lot more traditional and I like that. Focuses on white/granary farmhouse loaves, they do have sourdoughs but it’s not a trashy staple. No additives, preservatives or other such crap. Does mean freezing and defrosting in summer but small price to pay.

Edited Tuesday at 16:46 by Gloucester Saint

[Weston Super Saint]

1 minute ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Sourdough relatively easy to make, and trendy so big mark up, hence a lot of the Cotswold stone towns have got bakeries springing up making it. Moreton in particular has a lot of bakeries for a small town. 

It's the posh money laundering version of Turkish barbers

[egg]

24 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

I'll normally at least try for a healthier, low additive bread.

However, it really has to be something like thick Warburton's white for french toast. 

Absolutely. Most mass market bread is ultra processed and packed with crap. The Jason bread products are good with minimal ingredients, ditto the crosta and mollica flatbreads. We don't eat much bread but if we use supermarket stuff, it's those. 

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, Weston Super Saint said:

It's the posh money laundering version of Turkish barbers

Did you see that article about Cradley Heath in the Black Country? Convenience stores selling BBC reporters coke for £90. 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

6 hours ago, whelk said:

Time and a place so cannot rank. Don’t know anyone who puts bacon in a Naan for breakfast. 

 

There's a trendy Indian fusion place in Manchester that does this. Can't remember the name. You guys would probably all hate it, 'cos you're not as hip as me (except Sue by the sound of it).

[egg]

2 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Did you see that article about Cradley Heath in the Black Country? Convenience stores selling BBC reporters coke for £90. 

That's the sugar tax for you. 

[Gloucester Saint]

3 minutes ago, egg said:

Absolutely. Most mass market bread is ultra processed and packed with crap. The Jason bread products are good with minimal ingredients, ditto the crosta and mollica flatbreads. We don't eat much bread but if we use supermarket stuff, it's those. 

In terms of supermarket bread, pittas only tend to have a couple of ingredients if you want them for sandwiches and filling.

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

4 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

Precisely, it's a cake and goes well in a pudding. It is not bread.

Why isn't is called Cake and Butter pudding though? Who puts butter on cake other than lardos.

[egg]

Just now, Gloucester Saint said:

In terms of supermarket bread, pittas only tend to have a couple of ingredients if you want them for sandwiches and filling.

Yeah, they'rw usually pretty good, but dry and not my thing. A Jason roll is really nice, ditto the C&M stuff. If I'm having bread calories, I have to have something decent. 

[badgerx16]

54 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Why isn't is called Cake and Butter pudding though? Who puts butter on cake other than lardos.

It is bread and butter pudding because it is made with bread. What Sue was talking about is just a pudding.

Is Soreen bread or cake ?

Edited Tuesday at 17:46 by badgerx16

[swannymere]

7 hours ago, suewhistle said:

Foccaccia modern? It's the original hearth bread!

 This might be a first for a football forum. I apologise I was wrong. It was late and I mixed up Forccacia and Ciabatta. The shame I have brought on my family will live with me forever.

[Hamilton Saint]

I'm partial to German-style rye bread. There are quite a variety of types. Pumpernickel Rye is particularly good.

My wife bakes her own bread--using the no-knead method. Very tasty!

I also like a good Parisian-styled baguette with stews like bouef bourguignon.

And any type of bread toasted with butter and Marmite is the best!

[Holmes_and_Watson]

5 hours ago, Hamilton Saint said:

I'm partial to German-style rye bread. There are quite a variety of types. Pumpernickel Rye is particularly good.

My wife bakes her own bread--using the no-knead method. Very tasty!

I also like a good Parisian-styled baguette with stews like bouef bourguignon.

And any type of bread toasted with butter and Marmite is the best!

We use the no-knead method too. There's no-knead to make our own, as we can go to the shops. 🙂

[bpsaint]

Jason’s Sourdough for toast. BEK bakery in St Denys doing a cracking sourdough baguette too that’s great with a brunch.

Sandwich wise nothing beats a sliced tiger loaf from the bakery.

Peshwari Naan with an Indian.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Fkn sourdough.

Only bread I'll entertain is Warburton's white, thick toastie bread. Occasionally a lump of white tiger bread.

I don't eat masses of bread but it has to be white, with cold butter. Butter not marg or other crap, butter. 

[Patrick Bateman]

On 28/04/2026 at 17:48, Gloucester Saint said:

Did you see that article about Cradley Heath in the Black Country? Convenience stores selling BBC reporters coke for £90. 

£90, rip off corner shops.

[egg]

56 minutes ago, bpsaint said:

Jason’s Sourdough for toast. BEK bakery in St Denys doing a cracking sourdough baguette too that’s great with a brunch.

Sandwich wise nothing beats a sliced tiger loaf from the bakery.

Peshwari Naan with an Indian.

 

I'd not heard of that place, but just seen their website. Their products look amazing, especially the pastries. I'll give it a go - thanks. 

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

7 hours ago, egg said:

I'd not heard of that place, but just seen their website. Their products look amazing, especially the pastries. I'll give it a go - thanks. 

Yes, its pretty decent. Think they may supply Mauries (the tiny sandwich shop on the avenue that has gone viral).

There is a Romanian bakery on East Street too. The quality isn't as good as Beks but it has some random European/Romanian breads!