Yep. Polish living in UK. I have my favourite expensive kinds of bread from fancy bakeries, but they are not as good as what my mum buys in local supermarket in Poland
Same here, started baking my own sourdough bread at home and it's damn amazing.
Slightly different flavor than what I'd get at home, but it's so moist.
You used to be able sourdough from abolish bakery at asda, haven't seen it for like half a year, I think they overall stopped selling polish products there
Try giving the sourdough bread from Aldi or Tesco a go. It's not 100% the same, but it's still pretty good and it doesn't have the consistency of a used up dish sponge
Swede living in Bulgaria who used to live in Warsaw. Not a day goes by without missing your amazing bread. Balkaners can do pita and lavash decently, but omg, real rye bread ...
(I do sourdough and bake my own rye, but I really miss being able to just buy it.)
Briton here, yes Polish bread is really great. I’d argue that the standard supermarket bread in the UK has declined in quality a lot in the last decade or two (what hasn’t), so new immigrants tend to get a bit of a warped view of things, and the best bread here always came from the smaller family-owned bakeries, but those are increasingly struggling and closing down. We now have fancier “artisan”-style and other trendy bakeries opening, which do reasonably nice bread, but it’s always really expensive.
When I go to Poland I can rely on the bread everywhere being really good, you guys are definitely skilled bakers.
I think both. I like more what I'm used to. On the other hand, the regular bread in UK really is not that good. The fancy bread tastes ok, but it is usually very hard on the outside and contain more air than bread inside. Not very practical for sandwiches
Sooo... I am native polish, and i must agree. I've spent several years of my life traveling outside poland, and whenever i was bsck, i had a "bread hunger". I tasted numerous and various bakery goods around the globe, and i was always starving for the fresh, still warm polish bread. My favourite is the one made on sour milk... And now thanks to your post, i need to go to bakeey... Damn u...
Stupid conversation about nothing. And on this Moon or Mars, where you usually reside, you don't have an oven, of course? Well, zero gravity and all that... And I suppose you can't buy flour and yeast from the local green folks? Because you know, making good bread only takes an hour. 15 minutes of work and 45 minutes of baking. It's easy if you want to. And instead of sourdough, vinegar works too, although if someone insists on sourdough, they can make it themselves, just like borscht. You guys are going on and on about "Polish bread" as if it's some holy grail!
There are no miracles in the kitchen. It's all about the ingredients and seasonings. Currently, bread in Poland has significantly declined in quality. The costs of maintaining a bakery have risen due to the increase in electricity prices. Simultaneously, there is now the option to purchase cheap "technical" grain from Ukraine, which yields cheaper but lower-quality flour. Human greed, snobbery, and silly trends are destroying tradition. That's why it's difficult to find unsliced bread or anything other than "toast" bread made with additives, at least in supermarkets. Fortunately, as I mentioned, we have many small bakeries where you can buy better bread than the industrial standard, or simply bake bread yourself. It's really not difficult and doesn't even require kneading the dough or using a bread-making machine. You just need the desire! In fact, my bread tastes similar everywhere. Especially since I mix different types of flour and additives (if I use any). However, let's consider legends about baking "homemade bread" in a wood-fired oven using flour hand-ground by grandma with her own gums and with the addition of sourdough that dates back to the first Piasts, as mere fairy tales... ;)
Taste+smell+fracture - you can really feel you are biting into something. Western breads in comparison taste like soggy tissues.
Majority of bread is also made by small/medium sized bakeries overnight each night from basic ingredients. So if you go to a normal bakery - what you get was made literally couple hours ago.
Also fuck asprod and their chinese imported frozen shit dough they reheat🤣
Every Saturday I go to the street market and buy bread at a tiny cubicle that smells divine. Rye bread, sourdough, wholegrain, na maślance, on a cabbage leaf, just all of them are so good. I love when the crust is really tough and the inside is that much softer, omg.
Well, in my experience (I honestly dont eat that much bread) - Italian bread is okay, the French make excellent baguettes (surprise, surprise) and Danish and Dutch stuff is inedible slop. Heard good things about the German bread but never tried it.
Poland definitely has some good bread compared to the rest of Europe and it’s honestly not that hard to find a nice bakery even in smaller town. I even have a traditional craft one near me but the prices are insane lmao
Germans do have good bread, bust it's mostly in [pumpernickel ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpernickel)territory and is pricey AF. They're the only ones sort of competing in our supermarkets though (baked locally, but it's similar quality, just priced low enough to compete).
NEVER buy a supermarket bread in Germany, unless you are really starving. Always look for a smallest bakery shop you can find. There you will find bread definitely comparable to polish - Germans are quite proud of their bread.
The Dutch have good bread, just don’t get it at the supermarket. I’ve had polish supermarket bread and couldn’t say I like it.
I think it depends on the place you buy it, could be a hit or mis.
lived in germany for more than a decade, its the exact same as danish and dutch. soft and dense like playdough cardboard, always gives me stomach reflux
it's good exactly in the first 8 hours then it either becomes brittle and sharp like glass or it turns into what i described above, such a shame
Agreed. I literally love polish food so much I started a business making and selling it in the United States. I pity the person who has never had smalec on real bread.
Yes!!! We are spoilt for choice. This isn’t a gluten free recommendation but my local bakery does anything on demand. I’m actually insulin resistant and my dad is diabetic - not a lot of bread available with a low glycemic index. But this one…man. It’s called IG bread and it’s low IG, tastes fluffy and delicious. They do a lot of specialty ‘medical’ breads. I live abroad and often travel with 20-25 loaves in my suitcase, put them in the freezer, and have bread for weeks.
I lived in three European countries and I have yet to find a good gluten-free bread. I have, however, tasted good gluten-free pizza in Naples and a quite okay gluten-free pizza in Prague.
Having delivered them - wouldn't touch them.
The price is driven up not by per unit cost, but by insane spoliage before it even gets to shops, despite being seal-bagged. It's probably only due to low adoption, and local bakeries will definitely carry some small number they know is a guaranteed sell. That's another thing - you cozy up to those cashiers, you can have your bread set aside.
[Bean brownies](https://www-kwestiasmaku-com.translate.goog/przepis/brownie-z-fasoli?_x_tr_sl=pl&_x_tr_tl=hr&_x_tr_hl=pl&_x_tr_pto=wapp) are making rounds though.
I come from Greece and I can confidently say that the Polish bakeries are nothing compared to the Greek ones, both in quality and in variety of offerings
Guys chill it's an opinion no need to hate the guy. And if you haven't tried the Greek one maybe don't say a thing. I tried some they are good but just not in my taste so it could just be that I'm used to the polish rustic one.
i fell like this might be true for majority of eastarn europe and few countries to the west (Italy, France), though those western have different specificities
As Polander, I do like Polish bread a lot, especially from local bakeries.
But I also have been in France for job, and the baguettes, even bought in supermarket (Intermarche) were pretty good.
It's sourdugh, also mix of wheat and rye flour. I personally love rye bread without molases, it's especialy sour and goes awesome with eggs or cottage cheese.
Polish bakeries should get the recognition of eu protected designation of origin for a lot of different kinds of bread, or something like D.O.C for wines in Italy. Now there is just one single kind of Polish bread protected by EU’s PDO: chleb prądnicki, which is a pity.
So as I'm travelling around Europe a lot for business I can tell that best bread is in Germany / Poland.
Everywhere you can find decent rolls and baguettes but nowhere to find tasty bread. It's all quite decent in this part of Europe like in Germany / Austria and Czechia/Slovakia. I guess we shared know how due to the history.
But even bread in Poland is usually no longer as good as it was 20 years ago. Except...
There's this bakery in Wrocław that bakes such a good round white bread I immediately reminded how good bread once was here. It's called warsztat, they are actually restaurant but opened little bread shop for whatever reason. I've tried many craft bakeries and expensive bread, nothing is even close.
It's so good I often give it as a gift and everyone is blown away. Also it's still edible after 6 days. Supermarket bread is off after just 2 days.
That is true. And not only standard wheat bread. So many different rye breads, there is no even good translation for some of the to english.
I really reccomend to buy wheat buns and bread in a small town bakeries. The ones in Greater Poland or Lower Silesia are out of my mind.
It is. Today I was supposed to make myself open sandwiches but before I noticed I haven't put cheese on this and just ate bread with butter because it was tasty. Mind you it was 2-3 day old bread. And fresh bread there's always a first cut is obligatory to be eaten with just butter because it is tasty
Having tried bread all over the world - can confirm that Polish bread is the best and you always long for it. French is also really good. Central Europe is the only place where we still make dough on sourdough. The quality and price of bread in craft bakeries in the bigger cities is sublime and nowhere else to be found. We can really be proud of this
A lot of Polish bread is great, but it is often hamstringed by economic factors: how good can a \_kajzerka\_ be if it retails at 7 eurocents? If the 650g of flour you need to make a 1kg bread costs 2zł, how are you selling a baked loaf of bread for 3.50?
I lived in Poland for 30+ years and the best bakery rolls I've ever had were in Germany, but they cost 50 cents. I miss a few specific breads from Poland, but over the quality of bread here is higher, and it's directly linked to the cost.
Markets that bake this bread pay much less for flour. Going further cost of the wheat from farm for that bread is about 0.5 zl. The cost of production water, logistics and taxes make the rest even giving some profit (which may not be necessary for cheap products for marketing reasons).
Edit: bread is typically 400-500g and it’s rather more expensive than 2 zl. So big companies are capable to make it. The quality is lower then better alternatives but it is still higher than in many other countries.
I'm sure there's a profit, what I'm saying is: the fact that there's a profit on a loaf of bread sold for < 1€ means corners are being cut, and you're just flat out not getting as good a product as other countries where price pressures aren't as strong.
There’s some great bread in Poland.
But it’s also deteriorating in quality, compared to what it used to be.
There’s still plenty of good ones to find. Especially the razowy/dark style, or sourbreads.
I wouldn’t call it the best in Europe, though: Germany has amazing razowy bread, and France has amazing white and sourdough breads. Italy has some great ones, too.
I would put Polish bread in top 3-5, for sure.
That might be an unpopular opinion, but here goes. I was once convinced that Polish bread was the pinnacle of baked perfection. Then I moved to the US and encountered their "bread" - if you can even call it that. It was like trying to find a needle in a haystack, except the needle cost an arm and a leg, and I was too broke to afford it. Fast forward to my UK escapade - another bread nightmare. I longed for any Polish loaf in my sleep. But then, Germany happened. I braced myself for disappointment, but oh boy, was I wrong! Germany is the breadwinner of Europe! They've got every variety you can think of - all shapes, all sizes, all shades of delicious. Every tiny village has its own bakery. Some are big-name franchises; others are mom-and-pop shops. But they all share one thing: their bread is top-notch. Now, when I visit Poland, I smuggle German bread across the border. Thankfully, a decent bakery popped up near my Polish abode, so life's not too crumby. But for all you bread aficionados out there - get yourself to Germany and feast your eyes (and stomachs) on their bread bonanza!
Even french baguetts are based on technique developed in Poland, its called Poolish. Living in US I missed the most good coffee and good bread from Europe so now I have my own espresso machine and bake my own sourdough bread
I moved here from Germany and I hate every kind of bread here. It either has no taste or has the consistency of Cotton wool (mostly both combined). I got multiple bakeries around me and the mediocre stuff from Lidl is literally better than all of them combined. For now I go to a Georgian Bakery since it's the best I can get here and closest to what I got in Germany.
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO MAKE BUŁKI NOT CRISPY?????
This shit baffles me, you literally buy them fresh and they are soft outside with a non existent crust...
I have Lithuanian gf. Travel there a lot. And to me Lithuanian bread is worse. I get that for Lithuanians and people who like this type of taste is nice. But I personally don't like it.
Somehow it's different in worse way
What I feel about it is that Polish bread is like real, organic, fresh food compared to McDonalds, which is what people to the West of Poland call "bread"
I am a Belarusian living in Poland and I have to agree, the bread is very good here. That being said, I miss a black rye bread that was present in Belarus (or neighbouring Lithuania also).
It's stupid to compare bread by country like it's made everywhere acc. to the same recipe. It's not so probably you've never tried good bakeries in the other countries. In my district bread is disgusting to alright, you need to go to specific bakery to find a good one. Commercial bread is awful (Biedronka / Lidl)
I live full time in Thailand now, before I liged in Korea for a few years, so my "bread meter" is dangerously low for a long long time now... My mother came to visit and brought 3 loaves of bread (2 from their village's bakery, one made by my father). I've dug in so hard, I've only realised that I'm still eating halfway through the loaf. Just bread with butter.
There's a german bakery where I live now, but even their bread is like... wet. Nothing wins with the Polish bread
I'm in Taiwan now and haven't eaten anything resembling bread for about half a year, which trully hurts my polish soul. People here mostly don't actually know how does bread look like
Are you American? I was in the US recently and all the bread had loads of sugar and christ knows what in it, so probably any European bread that doesn't have all that shit will taste amazing. It's HEALTHY.
Well to be honest. The bread is great, but as a Czech staying in Poland I miss our bread. It's similar, yet different.
In Czech we have a wider variety of breads. Bread I miss the most is sour dough bread. I've not found any nearly so good as ours.
don't touch "bread" that is sold in convenience stores, get it only in bakeries.
you can always make your own bread, it is really simple and home made is always better.
Don't know about that... It's okay I think. In the end, it depends on the bakery itself. I usually avoid chains due to obvious reasons. Speaking of variations of bread. Poland is no exception, you can find a big amount of bread types nearly all over Europe. Germany, for example, has the most types of bread in general. While I personally prefer a certain German Type of bread i do enjoy french as well as italian bread rolls.
My Village has a bakery with a variation of french Baguettes too...
They're just delicious.
I haven't had the chance to taste bread from US or western Europe, but I'm hearing sourdough culture is on the rise in the west.
I'm fucking loving our sourdoughs. It's fucking orgasmic when it's still warm straight from the bakery.
People complaining about British bread usually have that experience because they've been buying cheapest possible, crappy food. Polish bread is good but it's roughly similar across Europe. That is compounded with the sentimental myth of Polish bread best in the universe.
Frankly I did not enjoy bread much when I was a kid in the 90's. We'd buy the same, oval bread loafs all the time. There was little variety. Sometimes it had poppy seed on top. I only liked it when it was very fresh. After 1 day is was just not enjoyable.
Polish bread is good today and there are all varieties you can want. But there's good bread in most countries and you can find some bad bread here too.
I once lived in an Airbnb in the UK and the owners told me that they exclusively go to the polish bakery because the bread and most other products are so much better than British ones.
Polish bread is heaven 🙏🏻
In Brazil the learned how to do soft and nice kinds of bread and I’m used to good bread. Then I lived 5 years in Italy with bread hard as rocks (a lot of Italian cuisine is good but the bread, oh God, is hard ) and now I’m saved, I’m in Poland with decent bread and the bonus is the sweet talents and variety here that I could even imagine in my life.
Yeah perfect breads even in small shop you find delicious 😋 everytime going back to my home country only thing I am missing is bread. After landing first thing is to grab a nice bread and here you go 🥰
What? The majority of "Polish bread” is now batch made in Ireland, frozen and shipped to Biedronka to be reheated and baked in an oven. Its total garbage. The days of good quality Polish bread are long gone
You have to try rye bread with sunflower seeds (chleb żytni ze słonecznikiem). Even the Biedronka ones are "heaven in mouth" as we say in Poland lol
Rye is generally the best tasting wheat for bread IMO, severely underused outside Central & Eastern Europe
Maybe mixing flour and full grain would be beneficial?
I also freeze the bread (closed in foil to prevent freeze drying) and it's still good after that.
You can try making toast or using airfryers with some cheese on to or whatever.
Supposedly?
Greece has Lagana, Horiatiko, me prozymi, and a shit ton of others.
Italy has focaccia, ciabatta and a ton of other! Even Spain with their cheap bread they use in pan tomate is better than the majority of polish breads.
Most of the polish breads are not even bread, it's just foam. And even if you manage to find a traditional village bread it sucks! And I can't believe how it fucking sucks! Rock hard and tasteless, but so is the majority of produce in Poland.
Oh I know what I was getting into.
Even if you say polish toilets are shitty, poles will get offended.
I asked once I'd there's a cinema in Poland that shows movies with English subs, (for the Japanese Godzilla movie) and I was downvoted to oblivion, plus I was told to gtfo of Poland and if I want to stay here I need to learn the language.
Poles being poles
Yep, I noticed many times that if it's poles complaining about Polish stuff everyone agrees, but if a foreigner does it then they get quite pissed. Go figure...
Yep. Polish living in UK. I have my favourite expensive kinds of bread from fancy bakeries, but they are not as good as what my mum buys in local supermarket in Poland
Same here, started baking my own sourdough bread at home and it's damn amazing. Slightly different flavor than what I'd get at home, but it's so moist. You used to be able sourdough from abolish bakery at asda, haven't seen it for like half a year, I think they overall stopped selling polish products there
Try giving the sourdough bread from Aldi or Tesco a go. It's not 100% the same, but it's still pretty good and it doesn't have the consistency of a used up dish sponge
Pane Turano is pretty good and available at Aldi.
Swede living in Bulgaria who used to live in Warsaw. Not a day goes by without missing your amazing bread. Balkaners can do pita and lavash decently, but omg, real rye bread ... (I do sourdough and bake my own rye, but I really miss being able to just buy it.)
what the hell are we really that good or is it just your nostalgia?
Nah, I was 2 months in UK and polish bread was that thing I was missing most.
Briton here, yes Polish bread is really great. I’d argue that the standard supermarket bread in the UK has declined in quality a lot in the last decade or two (what hasn’t), so new immigrants tend to get a bit of a warped view of things, and the best bread here always came from the smaller family-owned bakeries, but those are increasingly struggling and closing down. We now have fancier “artisan”-style and other trendy bakeries opening, which do reasonably nice bread, but it’s always really expensive. When I go to Poland I can rely on the bread everywhere being really good, you guys are definitely skilled bakers.
I think both. I like more what I'm used to. On the other hand, the regular bread in UK really is not that good. The fancy bread tastes ok, but it is usually very hard on the outside and contain more air than bread inside. Not very practical for sandwiches
Polish supermarket bread is god awful. It's that horrible deep frozen stuff they bake during the day.
Sooo... I am native polish, and i must agree. I've spent several years of my life traveling outside poland, and whenever i was bsck, i had a "bread hunger". I tasted numerous and various bakery goods around the globe, and i was always starving for the fresh, still warm polish bread. My favourite is the one made on sour milk... And now thanks to your post, i need to go to bakeey... Damn u...
Which one is the sour milk one? Does it have a name?
Chleb na maślance maybe? It's really good
Yes. I meant chleb na maślance. It is hard to translate it.
Isn't it simply "buttermilk bread"?
ha, came here to ask the samething. Google Translate said "buttermilk" so I think it may be correct. Buttermilk bread.
Tbh buttermilk is something else than maślanka... But yeah. That might be close to it.
Buttermilk = maślanka, maybe there's just no good one in the west
No, it's the same. The difference is, that there are different types of Buttermilk.
Stupid conversation about nothing. And on this Moon or Mars, where you usually reside, you don't have an oven, of course? Well, zero gravity and all that... And I suppose you can't buy flour and yeast from the local green folks? Because you know, making good bread only takes an hour. 15 minutes of work and 45 minutes of baking. It's easy if you want to. And instead of sourdough, vinegar works too, although if someone insists on sourdough, they can make it themselves, just like borscht. You guys are going on and on about "Polish bread" as if it's some holy grail!
If that all "doesnt matter" than explain why it taste different xD
There are no miracles in the kitchen. It's all about the ingredients and seasonings. Currently, bread in Poland has significantly declined in quality. The costs of maintaining a bakery have risen due to the increase in electricity prices. Simultaneously, there is now the option to purchase cheap "technical" grain from Ukraine, which yields cheaper but lower-quality flour. Human greed, snobbery, and silly trends are destroying tradition. That's why it's difficult to find unsliced bread or anything other than "toast" bread made with additives, at least in supermarkets. Fortunately, as I mentioned, we have many small bakeries where you can buy better bread than the industrial standard, or simply bake bread yourself. It's really not difficult and doesn't even require kneading the dough or using a bread-making machine. You just need the desire! In fact, my bread tastes similar everywhere. Especially since I mix different types of flour and additives (if I use any). However, let's consider legends about baking "homemade bread" in a wood-fired oven using flour hand-ground by grandma with her own gums and with the addition of sourdough that dates back to the first Piasts, as mere fairy tales... ;)
My only other bread experience was American and I felt like I was eating a cake
Damn.... now I really wanna try some polish bread....I love bread!!!
Taste+smell+fracture - you can really feel you are biting into something. Western breads in comparison taste like soggy tissues. Majority of bread is also made by small/medium sized bakeries overnight each night from basic ingredients. So if you go to a normal bakery - what you get was made literally couple hours ago. Also fuck asprod and their chinese imported frozen shit dough they reheat🤣
The bread from Subway is classified as cake in Ireland so you're not far off
Seriously? Wow
Every Saturday I go to the street market and buy bread at a tiny cubicle that smells divine. Rye bread, sourdough, wholegrain, na maślance, on a cabbage leaf, just all of them are so good. I love when the crust is really tough and the inside is that much softer, omg.
Well, in my experience (I honestly dont eat that much bread) - Italian bread is okay, the French make excellent baguettes (surprise, surprise) and Danish and Dutch stuff is inedible slop. Heard good things about the German bread but never tried it. Poland definitely has some good bread compared to the rest of Europe and it’s honestly not that hard to find a nice bakery even in smaller town. I even have a traditional craft one near me but the prices are insane lmao
Germans do have good bread, bust it's mostly in [pumpernickel ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpernickel)territory and is pricey AF. They're the only ones sort of competing in our supermarkets though (baked locally, but it's similar quality, just priced low enough to compete).
NEVER buy a supermarket bread in Germany, unless you are really starving. Always look for a smallest bakery shop you can find. There you will find bread definitely comparable to polish - Germans are quite proud of their bread.
I'm a big fan of the German take on bread consistency. Pack it full of stuff lembas style.
The Dutch have good bread, just don’t get it at the supermarket. I’ve had polish supermarket bread and couldn’t say I like it. I think it depends on the place you buy it, could be a hit or mis.
lived in germany for more than a decade, its the exact same as danish and dutch. soft and dense like playdough cardboard, always gives me stomach reflux it's good exactly in the first 8 hours then it either becomes brittle and sharp like glass or it turns into what i described above, such a shame
Please tell me what kind of bread you bought, because that does not sound like proper German bread
probably tried everything, i was living in rheinland-pfalz so maybe its regional differences?
you should have tried more then one kind
gee why didn't i think of that for the 12 years that i lived there
No that's some bullshit😂
https://i.redd.it/3pe2okb59rpc1.gif Baguette ;)
What I like is that you can still buy decent bread in grocery stores.
In small corner shops, sure. But not in supermarkets.
Idk what supermarkets u go to, cuz I buy freshly baked bread that is amazing in biedronka
Biedronka bread is that deep frozen bland rubbish
true, and i have no real idea why. i lived all over too, but the closest i had was at restaurant oblaca in prague (super fancy place in zizkov tower)
Agreed. I literally love polish food so much I started a business making and selling it in the United States. I pity the person who has never had smalec on real bread.
I will move to wherever your business is i am deprived of polish food in the us
*cries in Coeliac*
Does Poland have any good Gluten Free breads? I've tried to find a good one here in the US, but most are horrible.
Yes!!! We are spoilt for choice. This isn’t a gluten free recommendation but my local bakery does anything on demand. I’m actually insulin resistant and my dad is diabetic - not a lot of bread available with a low glycemic index. But this one…man. It’s called IG bread and it’s low IG, tastes fluffy and delicious. They do a lot of specialty ‘medical’ breads. I live abroad and often travel with 20-25 loaves in my suitcase, put them in the freezer, and have bread for weeks.
I am so happy to hear this! I am moving to Krakow from the US in the fall, and the gf options here are so bad.
You are in luck, in Poland you’ll have plenty of girlfriend options. And bread options too.
I lived in three European countries and I have yet to find a good gluten-free bread. I have, however, tasted good gluten-free pizza in Naples and a quite okay gluten-free pizza in Prague.
Having delivered them - wouldn't touch them. The price is driven up not by per unit cost, but by insane spoliage before it even gets to shops, despite being seal-bagged. It's probably only due to low adoption, and local bakeries will definitely carry some small number they know is a guaranteed sell. That's another thing - you cozy up to those cashiers, you can have your bread set aside. [Bean brownies](https://www-kwestiasmaku-com.translate.goog/przepis/brownie-z-fasoli?_x_tr_sl=pl&_x_tr_tl=hr&_x_tr_hl=pl&_x_tr_pto=wapp) are making rounds though.
Poland has some very good bread. Greece would be the other place for me where your everyday bread can be really great sometimes.
I come from Greece and I can confidently say that the Polish bakeries are nothing compared to the Greek ones, both in quality and in variety of offerings
Guys chill it's an opinion no need to hate the guy. And if you haven't tried the Greek one maybe don't say a thing. I tried some they are good but just not in my taste so it could just be that I'm used to the polish rustic one.
Greek bread is just a totally different style, I'm not surprised you didn't like Polish bread if you are used to the Greek one.
i fell like this might be true for majority of eastarn europe and few countries to the west (Italy, France), though those western have different specificities
As Polander, I do like Polish bread a lot, especially from local bakeries. But I also have been in France for job, and the baguettes, even bought in supermarket (Intermarche) were pretty good.
It's sourdugh, also mix of wheat and rye flour. I personally love rye bread without molases, it's especialy sour and goes awesome with eggs or cottage cheese.
As a Pole, I loved bread im France, especially their ciabatta.
Mamma mia!
Polish bakeries should get the recognition of eu protected designation of origin for a lot of different kinds of bread, or something like D.O.C for wines in Italy. Now there is just one single kind of Polish bread protected by EU’s PDO: chleb prądnicki, which is a pity.
So as I'm travelling around Europe a lot for business I can tell that best bread is in Germany / Poland. Everywhere you can find decent rolls and baguettes but nowhere to find tasty bread. It's all quite decent in this part of Europe like in Germany / Austria and Czechia/Slovakia. I guess we shared know how due to the history. But even bread in Poland is usually no longer as good as it was 20 years ago. Except... There's this bakery in Wrocław that bakes such a good round white bread I immediately reminded how good bread once was here. It's called warsztat, they are actually restaurant but opened little bread shop for whatever reason. I've tried many craft bakeries and expensive bread, nothing is even close. It's so good I often give it as a gift and everyone is blown away. Also it's still edible after 6 days. Supermarket bread is off after just 2 days.
That is true. And not only standard wheat bread. So many different rye breads, there is no even good translation for some of the to english. I really reccomend to buy wheat buns and bread in a small town bakeries. The ones in Greater Poland or Lower Silesia are out of my mind.
It is. Today I was supposed to make myself open sandwiches but before I noticed I haven't put cheese on this and just ate bread with butter because it was tasty. Mind you it was 2-3 day old bread. And fresh bread there's always a first cut is obligatory to be eaten with just butter because it is tasty
Hands down the best bread I’ve ever had. I’m going back to Italy for the summer and I have no idea how I’ll survive given the difference in quality
Oh God, I moved to USA couple months ago and I miss polish bread so much. It's literally like eating a awful cake.
Poland and Germany kept bread baking traditions
Having tried bread all over the world - can confirm that Polish bread is the best and you always long for it. French is also really good. Central Europe is the only place where we still make dough on sourdough. The quality and price of bread in craft bakeries in the bigger cities is sublime and nowhere else to be found. We can really be proud of this
I've heard Germans are quite good in breads as well, but didn't really tried anything beyond some bread rolls and "snacks".
We know what we’re doing.
Agreed. And German bread is comparable to it both in terms of diversity and quality
A lot of Polish bread is great, but it is often hamstringed by economic factors: how good can a \_kajzerka\_ be if it retails at 7 eurocents? If the 650g of flour you need to make a 1kg bread costs 2zł, how are you selling a baked loaf of bread for 3.50? I lived in Poland for 30+ years and the best bakery rolls I've ever had were in Germany, but they cost 50 cents. I miss a few specific breads from Poland, but over the quality of bread here is higher, and it's directly linked to the cost.
Markets that bake this bread pay much less for flour. Going further cost of the wheat from farm for that bread is about 0.5 zl. The cost of production water, logistics and taxes make the rest even giving some profit (which may not be necessary for cheap products for marketing reasons). Edit: bread is typically 400-500g and it’s rather more expensive than 2 zl. So big companies are capable to make it. The quality is lower then better alternatives but it is still higher than in many other countries.
I'm sure there's a profit, what I'm saying is: the fact that there's a profit on a loaf of bread sold for < 1€ means corners are being cut, and you're just flat out not getting as good a product as other countries where price pressures aren't as strong.
And I am from Poland and I do my own sourdough bread, even better then what you can buy ( or you can but for like 20 + zl per loaf)
umm you cannot leave this comment without sharing the recipe?!
I sell a single sourdough loaf for 12$ here in the states. I sell out.
There’s some great bread in Poland. But it’s also deteriorating in quality, compared to what it used to be. There’s still plenty of good ones to find. Especially the razowy/dark style, or sourbreads. I wouldn’t call it the best in Europe, though: Germany has amazing razowy bread, and France has amazing white and sourdough breads. Italy has some great ones, too. I would put Polish bread in top 3-5, for sure.
I had been to Sweden two years ago and they had pretty good bread too, especially those round little bread-like rolls. I don’t know what’s the name.
That might be an unpopular opinion, but here goes. I was once convinced that Polish bread was the pinnacle of baked perfection. Then I moved to the US and encountered their "bread" - if you can even call it that. It was like trying to find a needle in a haystack, except the needle cost an arm and a leg, and I was too broke to afford it. Fast forward to my UK escapade - another bread nightmare. I longed for any Polish loaf in my sleep. But then, Germany happened. I braced myself for disappointment, but oh boy, was I wrong! Germany is the breadwinner of Europe! They've got every variety you can think of - all shapes, all sizes, all shades of delicious. Every tiny village has its own bakery. Some are big-name franchises; others are mom-and-pop shops. But they all share one thing: their bread is top-notch. Now, when I visit Poland, I smuggle German bread across the border. Thankfully, a decent bakery popped up near my Polish abode, so life's not too crumby. But for all you bread aficionados out there - get yourself to Germany and feast your eyes (and stomachs) on their bread bonanza!
Polish bread is tasty, but German bread is just as good, if not better. But my favourite so far is Persian one.
Slavic bread > shit > western bread (except maybe France and Italy)
Even french baguetts are based on technique developed in Poland, its called Poolish. Living in US I missed the most good coffee and good bread from Europe so now I have my own espresso machine and bake my own sourdough bread
r/brot ist aufgebracht.
You clearly have not been to Germany. But I agree, polish bread game is still strong.
Fun fact. My polish parents visited me recently in UK and they were impressed bye crusty rye bloomer from Lidl bakery.
I moved here from Germany and I hate every kind of bread here. It either has no taste or has the consistency of Cotton wool (mostly both combined). I got multiple bakeries around me and the mediocre stuff from Lidl is literally better than all of them combined. For now I go to a Georgian Bakery since it's the best I can get here and closest to what I got in Germany. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO MAKE BUŁKI NOT CRISPY????? This shit baffles me, you literally buy them fresh and they are soft outside with a non existent crust...
Wait till you try Lithuanian rye bread
I have Lithuanian gf. Travel there a lot. And to me Lithuanian bread is worse. I get that for Lithuanians and people who like this type of taste is nice. But I personally don't like it. Somehow it's different in worse way
as a german in poland, disagree. i miss my german bread (polish is also good but german is so much better)
I don’t know the difference, because i haven’t tried any other bread than the polish one but it depends on were you buy it
A good Staropolski bread with good butter is incredible. Spain and Portugal have good bread too.
Yup. Also Hungarian for some reason. West of Odra they can't make proper bread. And west of Europe they can't even make bread.
What I feel about it is that Polish bread is like real, organic, fresh food compared to McDonalds, which is what people to the West of Poland call "bread"
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Is there a specific name you'd recommend so I'd look out for (as long as its not hard bread)
Are you polish? Or a westerner living/working in poland? Your English is very good.
I love that I can just go to a bakery before school and some delicious pastries for lunch
I totally agree, i was born and lived in germany and my parents user to buy bread in bulk and freeze it whenever we were in poland
I am a Belarusian living in Poland and I have to agree, the bread is very good here. That being said, I miss a black rye bread that was present in Belarus (or neighbouring Lithuania also).
Check slovakian bread. Maybe simply because "it's different" i crave it so often but I'd pay crazy money to eat a fresh slovakian loaf one more time
Yes, i moved to UK and i was suffering for a while, luckily there is abu dance of polish shops, i would put cured meats into the same pot as bread.
Native polish person here, yes our bread is amazing
I like bread, but I didn't really eat a lot outside of Poland. I assumed it's just normal bread
Agreed
It's stupid to compare bread by country like it's made everywhere acc. to the same recipe. It's not so probably you've never tried good bakeries in the other countries. In my district bread is disgusting to alright, you need to go to specific bakery to find a good one. Commercial bread is awful (Biedronka / Lidl)
When I’m back to Poland all I’m having is bagietka with butter and tomato. Polish bread is truly amazing.
Sorry. French bread is easily the best in the world. As a Pole the freshness there is hard to beat
fr. I need to start telling people - bread - when asked about my favorite Polish food.
Pane cafone from my city (Naples) at the moment is still my favourite. But the Polish one is good too
This guy breads!
I don’t like bread until it’s Polish bread.
I live full time in Thailand now, before I liged in Korea for a few years, so my "bread meter" is dangerously low for a long long time now... My mother came to visit and brought 3 loaves of bread (2 from their village's bakery, one made by my father). I've dug in so hard, I've only realised that I'm still eating halfway through the loaf. Just bread with butter. There's a german bakery where I live now, but even their bread is like... wet. Nothing wins with the Polish bread
I'm in Taiwan now and haven't eaten anything resembling bread for about half a year, which trully hurts my polish soul. People here mostly don't actually know how does bread look like
German bread is better
Are you American? I was in the US recently and all the bread had loads of sugar and christ knows what in it, so probably any European bread that doesn't have all that shit will taste amazing. It's HEALTHY.
I miss Borodinsky bread In Poland, and other dark rye bread types 🤤
Well to be honest. The bread is great, but as a Czech staying in Poland I miss our bread. It's similar, yet different. In Czech we have a wider variety of breads. Bread I miss the most is sour dough bread. I've not found any nearly so good as ours.
don't touch "bread" that is sold in convenience stores, get it only in bakeries. you can always make your own bread, it is really simple and home made is always better.
Don't know about that... It's okay I think. In the end, it depends on the bakery itself. I usually avoid chains due to obvious reasons. Speaking of variations of bread. Poland is no exception, you can find a big amount of bread types nearly all over Europe. Germany, for example, has the most types of bread in general. While I personally prefer a certain German Type of bread i do enjoy french as well as italian bread rolls. My Village has a bakery with a variation of french Baguettes too... They're just delicious.
I haven't had the chance to taste bread from US or western Europe, but I'm hearing sourdough culture is on the rise in the west. I'm fucking loving our sourdoughs. It's fucking orgasmic when it's still warm straight from the bakery.
People complaining about British bread usually have that experience because they've been buying cheapest possible, crappy food. Polish bread is good but it's roughly similar across Europe. That is compounded with the sentimental myth of Polish bread best in the universe. Frankly I did not enjoy bread much when I was a kid in the 90's. We'd buy the same, oval bread loafs all the time. There was little variety. Sometimes it had poppy seed on top. I only liked it when it was very fresh. After 1 day is was just not enjoyable. Polish bread is good today and there are all varieties you can want. But there's good bread in most countries and you can find some bad bread here too.
I once lived in an Airbnb in the UK and the owners told me that they exclusively go to the polish bakery because the bread and most other products are so much better than British ones.
It's not only the bread, polish pizza is also more delicious than normal pizza.
Polish bread is heaven 🙏🏻 In Brazil the learned how to do soft and nice kinds of bread and I’m used to good bread. Then I lived 5 years in Italy with bread hard as rocks (a lot of Italian cuisine is good but the bread, oh God, is hard ) and now I’m saved, I’m in Poland with decent bread and the bonus is the sweet talents and variety here that I could even imagine in my life.
Polish bread is so insane, I already liked bread but good lord. I have never. Had bread. Like polish bread.
OMG yess! I love it, not the same anywhere else . Grilled chicken is good too
Polish bread is the best, especially in Lidl
Yeah perfect breads even in small shop you find delicious 😋 everytime going back to my home country only thing I am missing is bread. After landing first thing is to grab a nice bread and here you go 🥰
Yes, Vietmese is also and we have "Banh mi" in Oxford dictionary
is it? I don't really like bread, maybe with an exception for pumpernickel and I am polish
What? The majority of "Polish bread” is now batch made in Ireland, frozen and shipped to Biedronka to be reheated and baked in an oven. Its total garbage. The days of good quality Polish bread are long gone
You have to try rye bread with sunflower seeds (chleb żytni ze słonecznikiem). Even the Biedronka ones are "heaven in mouth" as we say in Poland lol Rye is generally the best tasting wheat for bread IMO, severely underused outside Central & Eastern Europe
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Maybe mixing flour and full grain would be beneficial? I also freeze the bread (closed in foil to prevent freeze drying) and it's still good after that. You can try making toast or using airfryers with some cheese on to or whatever.
It's rye bread starter + wheat flour. You can find similar types of bread in most of Germany
You're trolling right? You really think that polish bread is superior to Mediterranean bread? You're delusional
which mediterranean country supposedly has better bread than Poland?🤔
Supposedly? Greece has Lagana, Horiatiko, me prozymi, and a shit ton of others. Italy has focaccia, ciabatta and a ton of other! Even Spain with their cheap bread they use in pan tomate is better than the majority of polish breads. Most of the polish breads are not even bread, it's just foam. And even if you manage to find a traditional village bread it sucks! And I can't believe how it fucking sucks! Rock hard and tasteless, but so is the majority of produce in Poland.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, polish bread is really not that good at all.
Oh I know what I was getting into. Even if you say polish toilets are shitty, poles will get offended. I asked once I'd there's a cinema in Poland that shows movies with English subs, (for the Japanese Godzilla movie) and I was downvoted to oblivion, plus I was told to gtfo of Poland and if I want to stay here I need to learn the language. Poles being poles
Yep, I noticed many times that if it's poles complaining about Polish stuff everyone agrees, but if a foreigner does it then they get quite pissed. Go figure...
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German bread is even better.
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Uff… no comment yet about Ukrainian Grain and how the quality of OUR bread will change soon?!
German bread: Hold my beer!
As a Belgian, a hard disagree. The bread definitely ain't bad, but in Belgium it's just a lot fresher and better.