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Udi’s Bread
March 8th, 2011 | caitlin | Categories: The Basket
Tagged: Gluten Free, Gluten Free Arlington VA, Gluten Free Bread, Gluten Free Calgary, Udi Gluten Free Bread

I’m sure I’m late to this party because I’ve heard people talking about Udi’s for sometime. So if you’ve already tried it and formed your opinion, then…well… it’s your choice to keep reading or not.

When the grocery store near us started carrying Udi’s Sandwich Breads, Husband decided it was time we took a break from baking our own to start trying this frozen stuff. I was skeptical because not only was it frozen, but it looked to good to taste normal. I hate that about GF foods sometimes, they look really normal, they look like their non-GF counterparts, and then you get all excited and try a piece and BAM, it tastes like sandpaper.

Promsing myself I’d keep an open mind, I immediately dug right in for the two pass or fail tests of GF bread: grilled cheese and french toast. Because  if the bread can’t hold up against those two things, then I’m simply not going to eat it.

I started with grilled cheese. And I have to say that for the most part, I was impressed. It toasted well, it held together and it didn’t fall apart when I dragged it through the pile of ketchup on my plate. My only real sticking point with it, is that it toasted a little dry, and by that I mean crunchy. Wow, here I go again with my amazing ability to use descriptive words ~ never claimed to be good at this ~

The next morning I decided to jump right in to the next test of bread worthiness – french toast. I was seriously impressed with the bread, mostly because it passed the first step of dunking it in the egg mixture. This is the point where GF bread normally just falls apart, and it didn’t do that.

Hurray kids, it made it to the pan.

The bread did good in the pan, it toasted up well. When it was all said and done, it wasn’t half bad. It was a little dry, but not horrible. We normally use a double dunk technique, but when we tried with this bread it just became too soggy, so we had to choose between a little dry or a lot soggy. A little dry for the win.

So here’s the deal: Udi’s White Sandwich Bread passes the tests. We’ve had it around ever since. It doesn’t compare to the smell of bread baking in the machine, but it is far easier and comes with a zero chance of fire.

We found Udi’s at Harris Teeter but I know that it’s sold in a million other places. Here’s a store locater thingy if you need one.

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