King Arthur Flour Special Patent Flour - 50 Pounds

Nice flour and a good price. I bake bread every week so a 50# bag is perfect for my needs. Nicely shifted. Heavy paper packaging. Great flavor

This is an Un-Brominated flour and honestly, the best I have ever used. I make everything from scratch, and everyone in my house knows when we run out. There is no replacement for flavor and texture. My bread rises more, and has a flakier crust. Cinnamon Rolls are Huge and Pie Crust is decadent. I recommend this for all Sourdough bakers too!

A good strong high protein flour that is great for sour dough , breads , or pizza. It is a step up from their standard bread flour...higher protein....King Arthur's name speaks for itself....quality.

I bake bread for my family at least three times/week. I started buying these 50 lb bags when the pandemic began and I could not find flour available in standard 10 lb quantities. Initially I was afraid the flour would become stale before I used it all, but it keeps well in the pantry, even in a non-airtight container, over the four or five months it takes to empty the bag. Although this flour is fine for cookies and cakes, it's a star ingredient in yeast bread. I have never used a more flavorful flour, one that requires no special treatment and seems to play well in every recipe. One note: the price for this bag fluctuates dramatically, for no apparent reason. At one point it rose so high that I tried a different KA -- good, but not as good as the Special Patent. Mostly, though, I've been fortunate to buy the bag on Amazon for $55-60; though today, it's almost $80.

Winner flour for bread making. The flour is so nice to knead. The package did arrive torn and amazon did refund me the money. I don’t think it’s worth removing any stars as the flour itself is very good.

I ordered this because we go through tons of flour, since I bake bread for my family every day, but I will not likely purchase again due to the packaging. None of us noticed any difference in taste or quality of our baked items, for all of the hype about this, but more annoyingly, once you open the package, there is no way to reseal it! So unless you happen to have a container big enough to hold this much flour at one time, its terrible! I tried taping it closed, but then when I had to reopen to refill the smaller container, the tape tore the packaging so that it wouldn't reseal again, so we had to cut the packaging and retape further down. It would be such a simple thing to make this bag with a resealable ziplock type closure...we had to get a big air tight bucket to hold the rest...not thrilling...since to have it sealed air tight, it has a lid that is very difficult to open, and I have to do it every day.

I had been using King Arthur bread flour but ran out around the first week. I was able to get AP, but ran out of King Arthur AP and was using a few other brands. AP is fine, but using bread flour is much better. I have been looking for a source where I can get bread flour and finally settled on getting this 50LB bag. So happy I did. The bag arrived right on time. One coner did have a small cut. But didn't leak much flour. Just a slight dusting inside the box it came in. I decided to test it by making some baguettes. I bad both a poolish and used 60g of a starter. I found that to work really well for flavor. Otherwise I followed the KA recipe on their website. Although they say that you can substitute bread flour for the AP the formula was written for, that is for consumer bread flour I do think it needs just a bit more hydration. Maybe just 10% or so. But the final product was excellent. I do need to practice my technique though. Overall, very happy.

The flour clearly states this is an organic flour. With out any additives However its not organic. It has folic acid,as well as other additives It's very misleading I make a lot of bread and only want great flour which this isnt

Arrived quickly, well packaged and completely intact. The flour is fresh and fits nicely in a large plastic IRIS USA 13.6 Kg container that has wheels on it for easy mobility of 50 lbs of flour! I've nearly gone through the first 50 lb bag and I have just ordered my second one! If you are wondering if you will ever use 50 lbs of flour before it goes bad, I can assure you that you can, if you bake 2 loves of bread a week in 6 months!