Indeed it is, but many people simply don’t have the time or inclination to do it. I’ll tell you what, before I decided to invest in my oven, if I could have bought the kind of bread readily that I make now, I sure wouldn’t have hesitated to buy it even if it wasn’t that cheap.
Oh, doh, I forgot to answer the bred pan question, Ikea has them on the cheap, I think they’re NT$299 each or something like that. They also have muffin pans.
Yeah, I let it rise twice, but it often doesn’t really rise much (or at all) the second time. I proofed the yeast fine (it’s fresh). Hmm, I’ll try less flour. 
BTW, good luck to the OP on selling this bread. Very fresh bread is delicious, and not everyone has an oven or the time and energy to bake. Good rye is hard to come by here, too.
Oh, to the OP, for buying bread pans, there are also DIY baking supply shops scattered around Taibei (we’ve listed them in other threads) but I guess you want one in Hsinchu (Xinzhu), is that right?
[quote=“Belgian Pie”]Can I join in?
How you gone send it? Frozen? How fresh will they be on arrival at 7-11?
Baking bread is one thing, selling another and distribution and delivery is a little more complicated, you need to guarantee a fresh product the moment the customer opens the bag and eats it … BTW, don’t send it chilled, bread can never be chilled … it’s fresh or frozen, not refrigerated.
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I guess I should have worded the title a little differently than I did. What I really wanted to ascertain is whether or not there would be any interest at all. Yes, the delivery aspect is a bit of a head scratcher, but I was thinking that I’d have to freeze the loaves unless I establish a full on bakery and distribute the bread island-wide and drop it off at various collection points in strategic areas of the main cities. Either that, or the loaves could be delivered frozen by refrigerated trucks to cram schools where teachers work or to offices as is done by a guy who makes sausage to sell to Taiwan’s expat community.
Brilliant! Thanks a lot, Swede!
Oh, if you don’t want to come in to Taibei, you could call Pantry Magic to order bread pans, and they can deliver them to Xinchu (for a small fee of course), after you remit the funds to them by ATM. They also have staff that speak English in case of need.
Pantry Magic (Taiwan) Ltd
台北市士林區士東路40號
40 Shi Dong Road
Shi Lin
Taipei
Tel: (02) 2837 5589
opening hour: 10am-9pm everyday
That’s right, Dragonbones, a Hsinchu locale would be more desirable, but I’ll probably get my wife to buy some at Ikea in Taipei this weekend.
Thanks to all the well-wishers!
[quote=“Dragonbones”]Oh, if you don’t want to come in to Taibei, you could call Pantry Magic to order bread pans, and they can deliver them to Xinchu (for a small fee of course), after you remit the funds to them by ATM. They also have staff that speak English in case of need.
Pantry Magic (Taiwan) Ltd
台北市士林區士東路40號
40 Shidong Road
Shilin
Taipei
Tel: (02) 2837 5589
opening hour: 10am-9pm everyday[/quote]
Oh, excellent, Dragonbones! Thanks a ton!
The 7-11 courier, and others, will pick up from your place and deliver to your customer’s place, same-day. You can arrange a contract with them. My courier for example, has options to keep things warm, or frozen, whatever you need.
BTW, one of my retailers also runs a bread store in Hsinchu, they specialise in “healthy bread”, that is, bread similar to yours, and deliver island-wide. They have a van that delivers daily around Hsinchu. They started three years ago and said it is very, very hard work and hard to find the niche. They are very nice people. If you decide to go fulltime, they are currently short one staff member and can’t find anyone.
Anyway if you want supplies in Hsinchu I can ask them for you.
This is where I don’t get it. No milk products = healthy bread. My grandmother bakes bread to this day with milk/sour milk with wholemeal flour and she’s still going strong, 90+, also adds in a bit of sugar and salt for taste, Irish wholemeal, also white soda bread is very popular…I have made it myself here in Taiwan and it was just so easy. I just used my regular little Taiwanese oven.
Why is it N.Americans (I’m assuming you are N.American) have this attitude towards dairy products? It’s more your lifestyle, exercise and controlling how much you eat and eating less processed foods. European ethnic people have been eating dairy products (and drinking alcohol) for 1000s of years and have the genes to digest lactose (and too effectively burn through alcohol).
Of course buttering the bread before you eat doesn’t help I’ll admit but you have to enjoy yourself!
There’s nothing wrong with milk in bread and hence my earlier comment about boring bread. You get a different texture if you use milk instead of water and it also depend what else you mix in the bread. Some bread works better with olive oil while other bread just doesn’t taste right without melted butter in it. The biggest problem here is the lack of various flour types, as you can get three different kinds of white weat and whole weat and that’s about it unless you’re lucky enough to get to CitySuper and get some of their very limited stock of rye. I’ve found most of the bread spices I’m used to here at least, but for some reason anis seed is very expensive here.