King Arthur Flour Special Patent Flour - 50 Pounds

Excellent. Good price

Tjis is great flower working great

flour came quickly, a little heavy for me to manage, once up on counter was easy to pour into containers! I do think it's a little on the expensive side, after this finishes I may just decide to mill my own!

Nice flour and a good price. I bake bread every week so a 50# bag is perfect for my needs. Nicely shifted. Heavy paper packaging. Great flavor

Got the bag of flour a week ago and have made free form bread loaves and rolls.The bread was made with a basic yeast dough recipe using water with instant dry milk and oil, and not only had a great taste, but also held it's shape. The bread loaves rose perfectly with a very good final oven spring rise to finish. They developed a great texture being fluffy inside and chewy outside.The rolls were made with a richer dough using whole milk, just enough water to dissolve the yeast and butter. It's a recipe that I've used often that has a higher hydration than the bread dough. I formed over size hamburger buns for 1/2 lb grilled hamburgers, some hot dog buns, and some regular rolls. They also held their shape nicely, even with being a softer dough. Nice oven spring, great texture, and they tasted wonderful.I don't think I'm going to get away with store bought rolls ever again.I find that the flour is as good as, if not better than, the supermarket King Arthur Bread flour in the blue bag.

makes great bread

I ordered this because we go through tons of flour, since I bake bread for my family every day, but I will not likely purchase again due to the packaging. None of us noticed any difference in taste or quality of our baked items, for all of the hype about this, but more annoyingly, once you open the package, there is no way to reseal it! So unless you happen to have a container big enough to hold this much flour at one time, its terrible! I tried taping it closed, but then when I had to reopen to refill the smaller container, the tape tore the packaging so that it wouldn't reseal again, so we had to cut the packaging and retape further down. It would be such a simple thing to make this bag with a resealable ziplock type closure...we had to get a big air tight bucket to hold the rest...not thrilling...since to have it sealed air tight, it has a lid that is very difficult to open, and I have to do it every day.

I bake bread for my family at least three times/week. I started buying these 50 lb bags when the pandemic began and I could not find flour available in standard 10 lb quantities. Initially I was afraid the flour would become stale before I used it all, but it keeps well in the pantry, even in a non-airtight container, over the four or five months it takes to empty the bag.Although this flour is fine for cookies and cakes, it's a star ingredient in yeast bread. I have never used a more flavorful flour, one that requires no special treatment and seems to play well in every recipe.One note: the price for this bag fluctuates dramatically, for no apparent reason. At one point it rose so high that I tried a different KA -- good, but not as good as the Special Patent. Mostly, though, I've been fortunate to buy the bag on Amazon for $55-60; though today, it's almost $80.

Best flour i've ever used!