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Our certified organic soft white wheat berries are triple-cleaned and perfect for making baked goods prepared from batters, including biscuits, cakes and whole grain pastries!

Our soft white wheat is certified organic and non-GMO, and comes in six-gallon buckets (or pails... another word for the same container), containing 41 lbs. net weight. When you store soft wheat at home, it needs to be protected in a couple of ways. First, it needs to be protected from a variety of little critters who'd like to get to it before you do. Weevils and rodents, for example. You also need to protect your soft white wheat berries from picking up excessive additional moisture, which can be drawn from the atmosphere. The buckets our soft wheat comes in provide full protection against these storage risks so your grain enjoys complete peace and quiet until you want to use it, even if that’s ten or twenty years from now. They have airtight gasket-sealed lids and oxygen absorber packets that remove the oxygen from the air in the bucket after we put the lid on. The O2 absorbers leave an atmosphere of nitrogen in the bucket (because air is mainly oxygen and nitrogen). If you don't already have a bucket lid removal tool, they make lid removal easy (see lower section of this web page). Note: Our organic soft wheat does not come packaged in a Mylar bag.

In whole-grain foods, the plant's cellular walls protect nutrients from oxidation. The process of oxidation begins to occur as soon as grain is ground, exposing the cell's contents to oxygen in the air. Flour that is several days (or more) old, has been exposed to oxygen that inevitably diminishes its nutritional value. The way to get full nutrition from whole grain foods is to mill them when you need them, right in your kitchen. Modern high-speed grain mills make it fast and easy to enjoy the freshest, best tasting and most nutritious food imaginable!

All of our soft white wheat is triple-cleaned to ensure purity and protect your grain mill from any foreign objects. (Soft Wheat that isn't sufficiently cleaned may contain small stones that will damage or destroy a grain mill... not to mention that you don't want such things in your food!) Trace amounts of wild wheat and wild mustard seed may be present; these are harmless and have no influence on baking results or flavor.

Our organic soft wheat has a shelf life of 10+ years when unopened and stored in a cool, dark, dry environment.

All of Pleasant Hill Grain's whole grain products are natural (non-GMO). Also, PHG does not sell any grains, beans, lentils, pulses or seeds sourced from China.

Soft wheat (triticum aestivum) has a low protein content and a high starch/carbohydrate content. Consequently there’s little gluten development when using soft wheat flour, and the gluten that will develop is of low strength. Because of these characteristics and its mild flavor, soft wheat is ideal for making light and tender whole grain biscuits, pancakes, pastries, quick breads and more!

To give you an idea of how soft wheat differs from hard wheat, the protein content of soft wheat is typically around 7-9%, while hard wheat typically has a protein content of 10-15%.

In the U.S., soft wheat is mainly grown east of the Mississippi, although some is grown in the Pacific Northwest.

Soft wheat can be either red wheat or white wheat; ours is organic soft white wheat, and like all of our grain, it’s non-GMO. Soft wheat is typically a winter wheat, which means it's planted in the autumn, grows a few inches tall before it’s covered with snowfall through the winter, and lies dormant until the ground warms up in early spring. In the early spring the wheat resumes growth until it’s ready to be harvested. Winter wheat tends to have slightly lower protein content than spring wheat.

Whole grain soft wheat flour is the same thing as whole grain pastry flour.

Make your own whole grain cake flour by measuring 1 cup of finely ground soft wheat flour then substituting 2 tablespoons of that flour with 2 tablespoons of cornstarch.

To make whole grain all-purpose flour at home simply combine hard wheat flour with soft wheat flour at a 50:50 ratio. Our customers have been very happy with their results when mixing hard white or hard red wheat with our soft wheat for their general purpose whole grain flour.

Soft wheat can be ground into flour using a stone burr mill, impact mill, or steel burr mill.Click here to find the grain mill that’s best for you.

This organic pastry wheat is not a good choice for making bread dough. For dough-bread making, the most popular choices are the hard red or hard white wheat berries as well as spelt, kamut or rye. We also offer durum wheat for making pasta.

The Ankarsrum Original stand mixer has been revered for decades by cooks who want extraordinary performance from their principal kitchen machine. A great all-purpose stand mixer for everything from cookie and cake batters to applesauce and mashed potatoes, its power also makes it a world class bread dough mixer and kneader. Mix all kinds of bread dough from standard sandwich bread and sourdough, to rye bread and challah, the Ankarsrum will take it all in stride! This mixer is renowned for long term reliability and quality results whether you're making a cake, whipping a meringue, or preparing as many as seven loaves of light, delicious bread. The updated model AKM 6230 is the best Ankarsrum ever, a standout machine with tremendous capabilities.

Great bread begins with a great starter and when it comes to sourdough starter, temperature is everything! The complex mix of microbes that cause bread to rise (and give your bread a distinctive flavor and aroma) are extremely sensitive to their environment. The Sourdough Home provides an easy way to precisely control the behavior of your starter. With degree-by-degree control from 41-122°F (5-50°C) you can maintain a consistent temperature or vary it to control the growth rate, aroma, and flavor of your bread. You can switch the temperature display from Fahrenheit to Celsius.

The inside of the proofer measures 5-1/8" x 5.5" x 7.5" which allows a 1 quart jar or two smaller jars to fit inside. Two shelves are included for flexible storage of small items.

As acclaimed sourdough baker Maurizio Leo from the Perfect Loaf blog explains in the video above "It's important that a sourdough starter is maintained in a consistent way, but the challenge there is that the temperature in your kitchen, even from one side of the kitchen to the other, can vary quite drastically... one of the great things about the Sourdough Home is that it allows you to effortlessly dial in the temperature that you want to keep your sourdough starter at."

The Sourdough Home by Brod & Taylor offers a convenient, quiet, and compact way to maintain the temperature of your sourdough starter at the exact temperature you want to keep it at, whether that's a warm environment as you're preparing to bake with it, or a cool environment if you want to store it between bakes. The Sourdough Home both cools and heats, so you have total flexibility with how often you want to feed your starter, whether that's twice a day or once a week, or anywhere in between.

Sourdough starter is a living colony of yeast and good bacteria. Like any living thing it needs to eat—just flour and water. Feeding your starter the proper ingredients at the right time is the first step in creating great sourdough bread. Using the precise temperature control of the Sourdough Home, you can adjust starter feeding times to meet your schedule.

As starter ferments and grows, it creates CO₂ bubbles that cause the mixture to rise in its container. The ideal time to feed starter is when the rise has peaked—all of its food has been consumed—and before it begins to fall again. By using a constant seed ratio (quantity of flour and water) and controlling the temperature, you can control the feeding schedule to hours, days or even a week. Use the guidelines below to get started.

In a small town in Western Massachusetts, Brod & Taylor was founded on a passion for making wholesome food from scratch. Their products transform this often challenging process into a simple pleasure by blending innovative design with simplicity, affordability, and outstanding customer support.

Whether you're just starting out or a long time baker, the NutriMill Sourdough Tools Kit is a great addition to your sourdough baking routine! The Sourdough Kit gives you everything you need to start making sourdough bread right at home in your own kitchen, including a dough whisk, bench scraper, two 12-inch round proofing baskets, a bread lame with four spare blades, and two cloth bread bags with drawstring closures.

The OXO Good Grips Food Scale lets you accurately weigh large quantities of food. With its pull-out digital display you'll no longer need to peek underneath large bowls and plates. Display can be lit for easier reading. Measures in ounces, pounds, kilograms and grams. Includes 4 AAA batteries. 11-pound capacity.

Cook's Illustrated highly recommends this OXO Good Grips kitchen scale.