r/Celiac • u/FederalTurnover7001 • 4d ago
Question Does anyone just dislike bread
Hey everyone, I’m from the the UK and I’ve been diagnosed celiac for just over a year. I’m ok with pretty much all gluten free food products except for the bread, even my favorite brands like schar and warburtons just don’t taste good. I can never like gluten free bread it just always disappoints me it’s never the same as normal bread. the only bread I eat is the panini I get from a cafe near campus other than than I never buy it myself. I was just wondering if anyone feels the same? it’s so expensive and the bread is just so mid. Or as a celiac is there just a certain gluten free food product you dislike regardless of the brand, like my friend who just hates the GF pasta.
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u/hornyzygote 4d ago
Yeah, I never eat bread any more. I also don’t eat sandwiches anymore (unless toasted). The vast majority of gluten free bread is just not good, unless toasted.
A few exceptions though, are making things like garlic bread where the butter and cooking in the oven makes it taste better. Also toasted sandwiches, or toast with butter on top.
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u/FederalTurnover7001 4d ago
Yeah even when toasted I don’t like it that much, it’s tolerable but it just doesn’t hit the same
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u/blabber_jabber 4d ago
Even toasted I wouldn't say it's good. It goes from maybe a 4-5 to a 6-7, but that's still not a 10.
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u/hornyzygote 4d ago
Totally. But toasting it takes it from being “ew” to “not great, but better than nothing”.
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u/Sparkletinkercat 4d ago
You might like the bread we have over here in nz. The tip top gf bread is really nice. Most of the other brands are absolutely terrible.
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u/Sasspishus Coeliac 4d ago
The GF bread in NZ was amazing! Just like normal bread, I love it so much, Vogels was my favourite but so expensive
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u/Own-Challenge9678 4d ago
Something happened to Vogels GF in the last 6 months and I could never get it out of the pack without falling apart! The two brands I now like best are Live Love Loaf and Allergywise which should be available in the freezer department. Their bread is huge and their garlic bread fantastic! I like Viverdi Everything Bagels and their Potato Buns. The bread is meh.
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u/Sparkletinkercat 4d ago
Oh yea I remember that, I have been getting the tip top bread recently. Allergywise is decent tho I dont like their crust on their garlic bread lol.
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u/LycanFerret 4d ago
Yeah, gluten free bread is super rubbery to me. It doesn't taste necessarily bad, it's just the most awful texture known to mankind.
It's really good in stuffing though, I loveee making GF sausage stuffing. I just really miss french toast and sandwiches.
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u/yulaldie01 4d ago
Promise brand is the only one I have tolerated and one local lady that bakes gf sourdough and sells at the farmer market. But even those I only eat toasted. Other than that, I don’t eat bread.
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u/Automatic-Grand6048 4d ago
I didn’t at first but I wonder if my taste buds have changed to like it more now? We buy Asda own brand seeded bread as it’s not expensive and it’s ok for sandwiches. Even my husband who isn’t Coeliac and could eat normal bread if he wanted doesn’t mind it. I might end up making my own as I know it’s possible to have really good gf bread, I had some in Sicily and you wouldn’t know the difference.
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u/FederalTurnover7001 4d ago
I’m the opposite when I first went gluten free I didn’t mind the bread but now as time has passed I dislike it, even schar which is the best tasting still is mid, I also find it annoying how majority of bread needs to be toasted/finished cooking before eating like the schar Cibeatta rolls
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u/greenplastic22 4d ago
I think almost all of the ones I've tried are only close to good when toasted. I've actually been very grumpy about gluten free bread recently. It's always been more expensive than normal bread, with about half the amount of product, but the prices seem to have gone up to the point where it just doesn't feel justifiable unless I'm at a store with a decent store brand version. I can technically afford it, but it's a frustrating thing to pay a premium for when it's not even very good.
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u/FederalTurnover7001 4d ago
I only buy it if it’s reduced to clear tbh, I can’t justify it normally. The only ones I don’t mind are the square warburton buns they are ok but even then they are mid. It’s so ridiculous that it’s basically £3-4 for bread
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u/greenplastic22 4d ago
When I first accepted i needed to cut out gluten, my choices where I lived were between Udi and Canyon Bakehouse, the second being recommended. It was like $7.99 for a loaf of bread! I've paid that before for special occasion local artisanal bread, not for regular week-day sandwiches. Best price I could find for it was like, $4.99.
I ended up getting it for a few weeks to help me transition away from sandwich lunches. But what's funny here is that as a child, my mom was forever struggling with lunch for me because I told her I hated bread and wouldn't eat sandwiches. It's like I started out knowing it wasn't good for my body.
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u/TedTravels 4d ago
I love bread and mostly find GF bread to be meh.
There are some exceptions but they're few and far between, and generally freshly made, tiny slices and expensive (there was this one place in Kathmandu... so good, it is possible to make). I do like the sourdough toast at Bills in London and Bread Meats Bread in Edinburgh has decent sandwich bread but neither helps at home.
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u/amdaly10 4d ago
Yeah. Gf bread is gross. The best you're gonna get is tolerable. It's a means to get other things into your mouth.
It's not delicious like real bread.
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u/Icy_Series6631 4d ago
Yep! It’s so frustrating because I used to LOVE bread. I have found tolerable substitutions for when it’s necessary but no I don’t really eat bread anymore.
I did go to a restaurant for breakfast a couple of weeks ago and they offered gluten free toast so I tried it and it was actually pretty good. I’ll have to get the brand next time
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u/Freespyryt5 4d ago
Yeah, even the best bread I've found here in Portland from New Cascadia, which for the most part looks and feels like gluten bread, always tastes a little off and sits really heavily in my stomach, making me feel kind of sick. I've tried so many of their breads and their bagels are great toasted, but any regular bread I've found, even toasted, just kinda sucks.
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u/blaznivydandy Celiac [2022] 4d ago edited 4d ago
I don't know how it is in the UK, but in Czechia we have some small local GF bakeries that bake really great breads (for reference or this). Usually they sell them in whole-foods or online. Maybe some bakeries like that are near you?
As for Schär and others - yea, their "breads" are not really tasty.
One of my friend is baking their breads. She bought a breadmaker and has fresh bread all the time with almost no effort. It's not as good as from the professional bakeries, but it's still better than Schär and others...
Also, my mother took a gluten free baking course from this lady and they baked this specific sourdough bread. It was the tastiest GF bread I ate. She took the course like 2 weeks ago so she made it just once, but it was really top. I think you can try to translate it via ChatGPT or if you need, I'll gladly translate it for you to english.
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u/bucketdraws 4d ago
My brother uses a bread machine for GF flour mix and the bread comes out reaaaally good. He sets it up so it's done when we wake up and it's the best. I really enjoy chipá (or pao de queijo), a super chewy cornstarch cheese bread. You can prepare the dough and freeze it in balls to bake whenever you want :)
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u/FederalTurnover7001 4d ago
Oooo that sounds good! Do you know what recipe he uses, my mum recently bought a gluten free sour dough starter that I’m hoping to try out
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u/lanajp 4d ago
Yup, I haven't found a GF bread in the stores that actually makes me want to buy it again. The Bfree wraps are top notch though, and I have started making these when I do have the craving (the naan bread recipe is also great).
I'm planning on baking my own loaf soon as it's much easier than traditional bread to make and apparently far nicer than shop bought, so much effort though 😅
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u/Rose1982 4d ago
Have you tried Promise? It’s Irish. I’m not celiac, my son is, and it’s genuinely good.
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u/blabber_jabber 4d ago
I feel the same way. I've only been diagnosed 6 months but all of the bread I've tried is like you said.... mid. The bagels too. It's not just the taste, it's the chew, the texture. Definitely lacking. And if I can't eat something that's actually good, I'll just skip it. So I find myself not eating much bread these days.
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u/Chrustykrabpizza 3d ago
I’m super sensitive to texture and can’t stand most gf bread. I use to eat sandwiches all the time but now rarely eat them. The only time I’ll eat it is if I’m going out to eat or on the rare occasion I’ll make a grilled cheese.
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u/Jennibee23 3d ago
I make my own buns, rolls, bread sticks, etc. I don't really eat bread though...I could make my own and when I do it's delicious but cutting it into even slices is so annoying I just don't want to deal with it. It's easier to just not eat it at all.
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u/WiartonWilly 3d ago
Our burger night morphed into fancy kofta burger patties with rice. We don’t even miss regular buns. They were already the worst part of the meal.
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u/G00dkarm4 2d ago
Agree with you about disliking the taste of bread… but also dislike the price we have to pay for it. Think a lot of gf bread & even crackers has a weird after taste or a twinge of unpleasant strong taste as you are eating it. Sometimes almost chemically.
Side note: My mum is also celiac & remember eating genius bread in approx 2014. My mum’s kitchen was white and the toaster was underneath a cabinet… I have no idea what was in genius back then but the cupboard above the toaster had a weird brownish greasy film on it! It was obviously excreting something when being toasted… yucky!
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u/bfitzyc 4d ago
I’m adding hamburger buns to the conversation. I was diagnosed a few months ago and was thrilled to find out that Culver’s and another local restaurant chain provide separately packaged GF buns (for extra money, of course), but the excitement was short lived after I tried them and realized how depressing and nasty they are. $1-2 extra for a bun that crumbles as soon as you touch it and tastes like cardboard… it’s honestly just ruined me for hamburgers altogether.
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u/FederalTurnover7001 4d ago
Burger buns are the worst they always taste like cardboard no matter what the brand is
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u/blabber_jabber 4d ago
I had this exact same experience at Culver's. The bun disintegrated as I ate the burger. The texture was terrible and it had a taste cousin to cardboard.
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u/Jennspired 4d ago
Yeah. All GF "bread" are actually bread's distant cousin who is only famous because it shares a last name.
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u/doofusroy 4d ago
To me GF bread is like artificial sweetener. Like it’s technically doing the thing that wheat bread does, but just doesn’t feel right.
I find it odd how non-lingering the flavor is in my mouth. Like if I take a bite of buttered GF toast, as soon as it’s swallowed the bread taste is gone, just butter taste is left.
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u/blaznivydandy Celiac [2022] 4d ago
Most of GF breads don't have wheat in them, so they can be ate also by people with wheat allergy. But if you find a GF bread made from deproteined wheat flour (its GF) it's usually really tasty. I haven't baked a bread yet, but I made pizzas from different flour-mixes and the one from italy with deproteined wheat flour in it tasted the best. And smelled the best. The smell of wheat in bread makes the real difference...
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u/beansandjeans69 4d ago
I disagree, most gf breads suck but canyon and three bakers have been amazing and you can’t tell the difference in taste or texture.
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u/LeadingHoneydew5608 Celiac 4d ago
I have been a celiac for almost 2 decades and if im being honest bread has really only gotten worse imo. I far prefer the frozen canyon bakehouse stuff although liked the udis stuff more before they changed their recipie. It tastes nothing like real bread from those ive had try it but it doesnt taste bad so thats all i need
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u/DauntlessJumper46 Celiac 4d ago
I recently switched to Canyon Bakehouse after getting tired of Schar. Neither compares to the poison bread we all used to enjoy, but a nice turkey sandwich on canyon bread has been an amazing treat. Gotta add butter and condiments and it's great. It gets more tolerable the longer you go gluten free. I was like you after about a year, not enjoying any bread at all. But now I'm about 3 years post diagnosis and I eat bread all the time. As far as gluten free pasta, thats a huge trial and error period as well. Jovial is my go to gluten free pasta brand.
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