from cloudskater@pawb.social to vegan@lemmy.world on 07 Feb 19:39
https://pawb.social/post/39393806
It is truly amazing that bread, fucking bread, has been one of the hardest things for me to secure vegan options for. You can get bread that doesn’t involve dairy or eggs, but it’s usually the cheap, crappy stuff, and if you have the option of something better, it has one of the two in it. Shouldn’t be an issue for me though. I know a guy who makes bread and we get loaves from him on the regular. I asked recently if he used milk or eggs and he said no, but turns out he was using butter all this time. A bit distressing that I’ve been consuming that ever since I’ve become vegan last year, but nobody asked until now so it’s on me, really. Dude was nice enough to buy vegan margarine for me specifically. Genuinely grateful for that, he’s a sweetheart for it.
deep inhale Why. Does margarine. Have palm oil. I ain’t complaining to him again, he’s been kind and accommodating enough, but I know this shit is awful for the environment and for me too. It’s better then dairy butter but whyyyyy?? I just want oil and salt to put on some basic-ass bread! I literally want a food so basic that comparison to it is a universal stand in for “wow, that’s bland as hell”. It might not be the hardest thing to find a vegan version of (there are also still some toiletries like toothpaste that I haven’t personally checked yet), but does anyone else struggle this much with bread of all things? Does margarine exist without palm oil? I’ve heard of people just drizzling toast with olive oil, so if I add a bit of salt to that will it amount to the same thing? infernal screeching
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@cloudskater not sure if you want to know, but most industrial made bread is not vegan because of the processing agent cysteine. It added to make the dough less sticky so that it can be processed on the conveyer belt and is made from feathers, beaks, hooves and hair.
You’ve gotta be kidding, so it’s even worse then I thought. Even if I wasn’t vegan I’d still find that disgusting. wtf?
bakerpedia.com/ingredients/l-c…
That’s so gross… thank you for telling me though. Yikes.
I learned to make bread from Paul Hollywood’s YouTube channel. It’s cheaper, tastier, and a fairly easy process.
This is the problem with most dietary restrictions, be it vegan, celiac, or keto.
You can always just make it yourself, but that’s not what people are looking for. The convenience of going to the store and just buying a loaf of bread is nice. Making it yourself will never be that easy.
Honestly though, I might take up that advice simply because it seems impossible to find a good alternative. I just can’t get over the fact that it’s this way for bread, of all foods.
Learn to make sourdough. It is almost impossible to find real slow made sourdough at stores. Its better tasting and you can make it using ancient grains that are more digestible than modern GMO wheat.
I’ll consider it, but every sourdough I’ve ever had I didn’t like. If it tastes different when homemade though, I’m willing to give it another shot.
Well I don't know about the bread itself but for things to put on it there are plenty of vegan options which are much better imo than margarine. Peanut butter was my choice until recently.
Oh yeah, I love peanut butter and all, but sometimes I just want basic toast, ya know? I feel like it shouldn’t be this hard.
youtu.be/Z-husjZkxHw