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Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by gus_massa »

sgerenser wrote: post #73
b112 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not completely true! For emergency preparedness, I keep a few hundred cans of food around. I live in a rural area, and this is prudent. I never eat them all best-before, and as this is canned food, best-before is not an expiry/safety date, even remotely. It is a flavour date. So I donate my stuff, before purchasing new. And before anyone gets all weird about it, I eat from the same stock I donate, even the day of don…

Have you talked to the food bank about their policy on past-date canned food? I know at least one food bank where they told people not to donate any food past the date as it will get tossed (plus additional staff and volunteer labor to sort through the stuff). I assume this is common for liability reasons at least.

Some cans have a long time until expiration date, like 3 years. If the GP keeps the cans for 2.5 years and then donate them when they still have 6 month left until the expiration date, is that enough time for the food bank to use them?

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by ascar »

vidarh wrote: post #105
ascar wrote: post #61

As a German the cultural differences around bread are really interesting. Already the cartoon picture of the half loaf of bread is so fundamentally different to what I am expecting it to look like. Also people in the comments saying they rarely not finish a loaf of bread. This [1] is how it looks like here and when bought at a bakery it's usually so big that we buy it in quarters and even that lasts a couple of days.…

Having eaten bread many places in Germany over the years, I certainly is aware of the shape of bread you show, but I've also had plenty of loaves of bread similar to the image in the linked site in Germany.

Well, we Germans are known for our baked goods and at a bakery you will find a wide variety including French croissants, baguette or Italian ciabatta. But at least in Bavaria "bread" is the one I linked and you refer to everything else by name. Whole grain bread usually comes in that form and of course toast. It's just not what comes to my mind especially in the context of a loaf.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by cpach »

ce4 wrote: post #31
jacquesm wrote: post #22

In NL every supermarket, baker or other place where you can buy bread will be more than happy to sell you half loaves, to the point that plenty of them have them pre-sliced and packaged ready to go.

Yep, i also don't quite understand what needs to be solved here. I just ask the cashier in the bakery for a half or quarter loaf. Or grab a pre-cut half/quarter one in the supermarket. There are plenty of options (types of bread, sourdough or not, based on different grains, etc) over here in germany.

Maybe the bakeries in India don’t offer this service/product for some reason? If so, a website like this could put some pressure on them to introduce half-loaves.

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Post by mirker »

treeman79 wrote: post #107
mirker wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is “artisan” bread, made by hand, which is the round kind. Then there is “sandwich bread”, which is the rectangular kind. Ingredients: Artisan bread is usually just flour, water, salt, yeast (sourdough is just flour and water, too). Sandwich bread can include milk or other fats to make it softer and is more of a “cake”. In industrial settings, there are a lot of preservatives included in the sandwich bread. Mix…

Started baking bread with kids recently. They love it. But next day the leftover bread is stale. I explained that it isn’t full of preservatives. After a moment, they look at me and ask where we can get some.

If you make artisan bread with sourdough, it can easily last 3-4 days. Mine don’t grow mold until 7-9 days.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by dreen »

flr03 wrote: post #112
curiousfab wrote: post #4

Realizing that you can put bread in the freezer changed my life - well, at least my bread buying habits ;-)

I'm eating loads of bread, good bread is not easy to come by in London, at least to my taste. There is this one place I like, they do big loafs that reminds me of the bread my grand parents were buying in France. Problem is that they won't sell me halves and my partner doesn't eat much so I freeze it from time to time. Frozen bread from a decent bakery always beat any kind of "fresh" supermarket bread.

Yeah, I wish there were more local bakeries in UK, I mostly gave up on trying to find good inexpensive bread.

Dunns Bakery in Crouch End is decent if youre close.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by moralestapia »

bmmayer1 wrote: post #16

Mel Brooks joke: a man in a deli notices that there's nothing but salt on every shelf. He asks the shopkeeper if he sells a lot of salt. The shopkeeper says "If I sell a bag of salt a week I'm lucky. But the guy who sells me salt, boy, can he sell salt!" This is a great idea that "doesn't scale" and could one day be a $1B business. Well done!

Sorry but, I don't get the analogy, could you elaborate?

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by xoxxala »

Around here, they are called “bachelor loafs”. Since my family doesn’t like wheat bread, I buy a bachelor loaf a week. Saves about a buck, but much less spoilage. I don’t eat enough bread for a full loaf a week and am too lazy to deal with frozen bread.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by moralestapia »

ce4 wrote: post #31
jacquesm wrote: post #22

In NL every supermarket, baker or other place where you can buy bread will be more than happy to sell you half loaves, to the point that plenty of them have them pre-sliced and packaged ready to go.

Yep, i also don't quite understand what needs to be solved here. I just ask the cashier in the bakery for a half or quarter loaf. Or grab a pre-cut half/quarter one in the supermarket. There are plenty of options (types of bread, sourdough or not, based on different grains, etc) over here in germany.

The world is much larger than "Germany". So, plenty of people may have a need for this, even if you don't.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by dubcanada »

moralestapia wrote: post #127
bmmayer1 wrote: post #16

Mel Brooks joke: a man in a deli notices that there's nothing but salt on every shelf. He asks the shopkeeper if he sells a lot of salt. The shopkeeper says "If I sell a bag of salt a week I'm lucky. But the guy who sells me salt, boy, can he sell salt!" This is a great idea that "doesn't scale" and could one day be a $1B business. Well done!

Sorry but, I don't get the analogy, could you elaborate?

He sucks at selling, however the guy who he buys the salt from is excellent at selling. Therefore capable of getting the shop owner to buy excessive amounts of salt.
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