Your daily bread

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My favourite is the sliced soy toast bread..I generally buy 2 loafs and put them in the freezer.

42
Blimey, your freezer must be full by now surely ?

43
Bread was replaced by chapattis in the '76 bread wars, Luton North still retains an informal yeast autonomy but by and large all uprisings have been quelled.

44
Not quite, I keep eating them (I shop every 2 weeks or so )

45
Migros Deli-Fit Vollkorn (wholegrain) buns are great with a bit of Philadelphia spread and a sliced tomato. The only thing is you have to be there a bit before lunchtime or they are all gone.

46
Well no that isn't entirely true. Migros used to have good bread, fresh, tasty, lovely.

Now it is like pre-baked, baked, after baked, frozen, baked again and that repeated 3 times over for the same bread.

47
I find Coop baguette to be better than the Migros one....crustier

48
Migros makes a sliced white toast bread called Pain du Soleil, which is great for sarnies. It seems to last longer than the Coop one with the American flag on it.

Otherwise, I love olive bread.

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Buying bread in Migros or Coop is very good for your health. You have to run very fast to get home before it's gone rock solid.

However, the Coop olive bread is very tasty and stays moist for a while. As it should for something costing over 3Fr.

I often buy bread in Germany (Marktkauf) and France (St Louis Farmers market and Geant). They're all better, and last longer, than the Swiss supermarket choices, and are good enough that I've yet to really explore the bakeries near me.

I suspect that the local bakers in Basel will beat them all, apart from the St Louis market - that place is excellent and good value. It's a new experience for me to buy bread by weight though "Can I have 500g of ...". Interesting!

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Try Migros Fit-Pain. That stays good for a good couple of days in a sealed box. I think it's made with soya and maybe some other grains but it seems to stay moist for a bit longer than the other varieties.

I've convinced myself that the Swiss bread has less preservatives in it than the plazzy bread you get in the UK which is why it goes stale so quickly...

51

Most loaves of bread I buy here last for 3 or 4 days if I put bread and paperbag all in a plastic bag (pressing out as much air as possible), twist up the opening and bend it under. You can even 'refresh' a day-old, gone-soft Gipfeli by halving it and popping the two halves in the toaster for 25-30 seconds.

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Can't vouch for 3 or 4 days - it's usually been gobbled up by then, Gipfeli usually last as far as the shop door for much the same reason...

53
Almost any bread from the "holzofenbaĢˆkerei" in Winterthur. Super! Coming from England I don't really understand why people miss the bread from there. The beer maybe...

54
As I remember, supermarket bread or highstreet baker's bread in the UK was always pretty crappy and unless you lived near an artisan baker or a farmer's market, you were punished on a daily basis.

I once had a cob loaf from Waitrose which was still soft, rubbery and tasteless after 10 days......

55
ooh, i like baguettes in coop, the inside is sooo soft

56
Swiss think bread is something which should really be bought fresh every day. I think so too.

When it goes hard then that's a good thing because maybe then it actually has fewer additives in it.......

57
what do you do with old hard bread? Any ideas to recycle it ?

The only usage we found is throw it at ducks and swans on the lake to entertain the kids

58
Croutons, bruschetta, breadcrumbs, fondue, bread puddin' ??

59
I love Zopf and thanks to our EF member WalterGuarriento I now make a delicious one myself!

60
zopf is my absolute favourite! i am addicted...

i also like the wallnut bread from migros a lot

generally i find the bread here way better than the one in greece and the uk.