Why has the bread at Rimping gotten so bad

[luther]

Anyone know the changes that have gone through Rimping's attempt at decent bread? Loaves are so under-baked and doughy on a regular basis, it's not worth buying.

[neilrob]

At my local Rimping, at Meechoke Plaza, there is a remarkable range of different types of bread available. The bread I regularly buy is as good as ever. I suggest you just try something different from their range.

[Dante99]

Not all the bread Rimping sells is made by Rimping.  They have a few other brands which have a few possible alternatives.  One I like and a second I get occasionally for a change.

[pgrahmm]

I've never found the bread to be good in either of the 2 we shop at...One bakes on site, the other does not appear to....

[sirmud63]

its never been good, by any standard .

if you want good bread ,farang style . go down loi kroh and turn left at soi 1 , follow the road 400m ,and its on the right . supplied my restaurnt for years , its very consistant .

[ricklev]

I find Nana Bakery so good and reasonably priced that it's my first and last stop every time I visit Chiang Mai.

[flare]

12 hours ago, neilrob said:

At my local Rimping, at Meechoke Plaza, there is a remarkable range of different types of bread available. The bread I regularly buy is as good as ever. I suggest you just try something different from their range.

I agree- I don't remember ever being let down by that particular Rimping bakery.

[anto]

Has it ? .Never noticed any change .

[kalbo123]

Rimping is a Asian Supermarket, no matter how much farang products they sell, bread is a day product, meaning what ever is left at the end of the day the supermarket has to consider that a loss, Rimping does not do that. but sells old bread the next day.

[Ricardo]

I buy my bread at Rimping Mee-Chok, not baked-in-store but another popular local-bakery (which I won't name), for the past year-or-so I've experienced mould growing even before the sell-by date.

 

But it's still better than factory-made, I guess.

 

Don't like the way they've recently moved all bread out of the main store, so that I have to remember to go & buy it after passing through the check-outs, not done for the customers' convenience, I suspect.

[worgeordie]

Over the years I have tried bread from lots of bakers,at the moment

i  am buying Whole wheat brown bread at Big C,only 20 THB,its sliced,

and good enough for me,I go every Friday morning and buy 5 loaves,

fresh out the oven, freeze it and it lasts me the week,comes out just

as fresh as it went in.some bread here  is very expensive for what it is.

regards worgeordie

[Jip99]

14 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

Over the years I have tried bread from lots of bakers,at the moment

i  am buying Whole wheat brown bread at Big C,only 20 THB,its sliced,

and good enough for me,I go every Friday morning and buy 5 loaves,

fresh out the oven, freeze it and it lasts me the week,comes out just

as fresh as it went in.some bread here  is very expensive for what it is.

regards worgeordie

 

 

I haven't found a Thai produced bread yet that isn't too sweet.

 

 

Is this one any different..... and @ 20 Baht is it really 100% whole wheat. I know it says that on the packaging, but T. I. T. ?

[Bung]

I buy my bread at the hideaway restaurant off hang dong road near airport plaza.  Their rye loaves are great and their English muffins and bagels are the best.  Not cheap though but consistently good breads. 

[Dante99]

59 minutes ago, Ricardo said:

I buy my bread at Rimping Mee-Chok, not baked-in-store but another popular local-bakery (which I won't name), for the past year-or-so I've experienced mould growing even before the sell-by date.

 

 

We freeze half the loaf when we get it home which reduces the mold issue and sometimes eliminates it.  Otherwise you got to eat it very fast and only our dogs can help us do that.

[elektrified]

We go to L'Opera Bakery once a week and buy about 8 baguettes just out of the oven and freeze most of them, taking one out at a time. Lasts us about 10 days.

 

Rimping bread is awful!

[worgeordie]

3 hours ago, Jip99 said:

 

 

I haven't found a Thai produced bread yet that isn't too sweet.

 

 

Is this one any different..... and @ 20 Baht is it really 100% whole wheat. I know it says that on the packaging, but T. I. T. ?

As I said,its OK for me,not sweet ,not like some Thai White breads.it does not say 100% W.W. on the

packet,and at 20 THB I would not expect it to be, and dont want 100 % anyway,

 

regards worgeordie

[JimGant]

We're totally hooked on sour dough bread -- have been for decades. We get ours at Central Festival, and have it sliced there. Pretty good bread, but not the San Francisco variety I crave.

Anyone have a recommendation for sour dough bread at another location (Rimping, at least at Promenade, doesn't appear to carry it).

[pgrahmm]

2 minutes ago, JimGant said:

We're totally hooked on sour dough bread -- have been for decades. We get ours at Central Festival, and have it sliced there. Pretty good bread, but not the San Francisco variety I crave.

Anyone have a recommendation for sour dough bread at another location (Rimping, at least at Promenade, doesn't appear to carry it).

Any of the sourdough bread here pales in comparison to the SF bread - but truthfully, even in the US 99% of the "sourdough" bread sold isn't very good....Apparently even if you took starter from SF and used it somewhere else it would lose the tangy taste....It's plugged into environmental conditions and away from SF it's not going to be the same....

 

I'm with you - raised in the bay area by a family that owned a French bakery....If it's got the sourdough signature holes that's about the best we're going to get....I used to get pizza the on sourdough crust = really miss that place too....

Nana bakery is ok, but just OK...

[trainman34014]

I shop at Rimping Hang Dong and Mae Hia, sometimes their bread is ok and others times it's crap.  In general Supermarket bread is dreadful and they are more interested in making thousands of Doughnuts and what they call 'cakes'...yuk.

 

Very difficult to get really good bread here after growing up with fresh bread every morning in our own countries and when i take the Mrs to the West she loves the bread and can't get enough of it.

[amykat]

1 hour ago, JimGant said:

We're totally hooked on sour dough bread -- have been for decades. We get ours at Central Festival, and have it sliced there. Pretty good bread, but not the San Francisco variety I crave.

Anyone have a recommendation for sour dough bread at another location (Rimping, at least at Promenade, doesn't appear to carry it).

 

See Chiang Mai Bread, on Facebook, and you will find a great place that delivers and/or you can pick up from their shop.  They have several Sourdough varieties, and make many other good things.

[elektrified]

11 minutes ago, amykat said:

 

See Chiang Mai Bread, on Facebook, and you will find a great place that delivers and/or you can pick up from their shop.  They have several Sourdough varieties, and make many other good things.

Yes they are good for some things. Some of their bread is very good and some not so good.

[pgrahmm]

Laughing - this is like the world's best/worst coffee debate.....

[Rotweiler]

And what, may I ask, is there?

 

 

On 9/3/2017 at 6:58 PM, sirmud63 said:

its never been good, by any standard .

if you want good bread ,farang style . go down loi kroh and turn left at soi 1 , follow the road 400m ,and its on the right . supplied my restaurnt for years , its very consistant .

 

[Jip99]

On 04/09/2017 at 0:58 PM, worgeordie said:

As I said,its OK for me,not sweet ,not like some Thai White breads.it does not say 100% W.W. on the

packet,and at 20 THB I would not expect it to be, and dont want 100 % anyway,

 

regards worgeordie

 

 

Tried some one on the strength of your comments.

 

Although it is only 21% whole wheat flour, I would agree that it does not taste as sweet as the Thai white breads. Certainly OK for toast.

[PhuketFarang]

On ‎9‎/‎4‎/‎2017 at 2:32 PM, JimGant said:

We're totally hooked on sour dough bread -- have been for decades. We get ours at Central Festival, and have it sliced there. Pretty good bread, but not the San Francisco variety I crave.

Anyone have a recommendation for sour dough bread at another location (Rimping, at least at Promenade, doesn't appear to carry it).

Coming in late... the "sourdough" bread you find at most stores are hybrids, at best.  They use commercial yeast to accelerate the rise.  This is one of the main reasons it doesn't have the sour taste.  Sourdough should be made with only sourdough started to ferment properly.  If you made your own sourdough, you can make is as sour as you want by a few simple adjustments.  This includes the amount of kooch you keep, the fermentation time, the number of times you punch down, etc.  I always make at least 2 loafs.  One sour loaf for me and one less sour for my wife.  Imagine a Thai who eats the most sour foods but doesn't like her bread sour. :P.

[searcher22]

On 9/4/2017 at 8:54 AM, worgeordie said:

Over the years I have tried bread from lots of bakers,at the moment

i  am buying Whole wheat brown bread at Big C,only 20 THB,its sliced,

and good enough for me,I go every Friday morning and buy 5 loaves,

fresh out the oven, freeze it and it lasts me the week,comes out just

as fresh as it went in.some bread here  is very expensive for what it is.

regards worgeordie

so you're the one emptying the shelf at the Big C bread section on Fridays! Maybe i should buy my whole wheat bread on Thursday instead! I also freeze this bread for toast.  I sometimes make the trip to the Big C  only to find out  that they're out of stock. Same for the imported Casino brand 70% dark chocolate, selling under 100 baht for 100 g.  Someone's stocking up on those too, LOL!

[elektrified]

2 hours ago, searcher22 said:

so you're the one emptying the shelf at the Big C bread section on Fridays! Maybe i should buy my whole wheat bread on Thursday instead! I also freeze this bread for toast.  I sometimes make the trip to the Big C  only to find out  that they're out of stock. Same for the imported Casino brand 70% dark chocolate, selling under 100 baht for 100 g.  Someone's stocking up on those too, LOL!

Have you checked to see if that chocolate is on the list of chocolates containing lead and cadmium? The government released the list a week or two ago. http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/18-brands-chocolate-products-sale-markets-tainted-lead-cadmium/

[FolkGuitar]

I was at the Nim City Rimping today and thought I give them one last try...

I bought a loaf of Pain de Campagne and was pleasantly surprised. Good taste, excellent texture and crumb.  There is hope for them yet!

[balo]

Listen,  forget Rimping and the other supermarkets , the best bread in Chiang Mai are made by a European baker and can be ordered from Facebook , I promise you , it's the best bread available in Thailand. Free delivery anywhere in CM. 

https://www.facebook.com/cmbread/

 

 

 

[searcher22]

11 hours ago, elektrified said:

Have you checked to see if that chocolate is on the list of chocolates containing lead and cadmium? The government released the list a week or two ago. http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/18-brands-chocolate-products-sale-markets-tainted-lead-cadmium/

Here's my take: Just about every food we eat is tainted to some degree, more so in Thailand. There's no escape. My hope is that by eating a lot of fresh fruit and keeping fit, we can ward off certain illnesses. Dark chocolate is one of my few indulgences (2 squares per day), and I just can't quit that.