One of the few things I've noticed still missing from store shelves - yeast packets

[Siwsan]

Toilet paper, paper towels, water, flour, even anti-bacterial/virus cleaning products are available, but not yeast.

What am I missing, as to why this is so?

[mucifer]

1. People are making their own bread more than before and finding it's cheaper and tastes better

[ehrnst]

2. I think it's the supply chain and the increased demand.

While toilet paper and cleaning supplies are an anticipated demand, the compulsive baking and the demand for yeast was not.

This is a long term shutdown, not like a blizzard.

For the four-week period ending April 11, yeast sales jumped 410% year over year, according to market research firm Nielsen.

The yeast shortage began with shoppers panic-buying at the start of the pandemic. Stay-at-home orders sparked a run on supplies so massive that the two to three weeks of dry yeast buffer inventory Fleischmann’s had on hand “was gone almost instantly,” Heilman told USA TODAY.

Fleischmann’s has no shortage of raw materials needed to make yeast. The company is hiring and training new workers, dusting off unused equipment and ramping up production. And it’s replenishing low supplies of paper packets and jars.

“We are not leaving any stone unturned to put the supply back into the pipeline,” Heilman says. Still, he estimates it will take one to two months, give or take, to get store shelves stocked again.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2020/04/23/coronavirus-pantry-baking-yeast-shortage/3004274001/

[Siwsan]

5. Thanks for the info!

I don't even know why I noticed because I don't make my own bread, or even eat much, unless it's garlic or cinnamon raisin bread. Well, I do make the occasional loaf of Soda Bread, but that requires no yeast.

[ehrnst]

13. I was lucky and had bought a jar of bread machine yeast in February.

I have friends who are completely out, though.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. Tried to get some Fleischmann's in March -- out

Made a loaf of bread with some yeast that expired in 2016. It was not pretty. The ducks were glad we couldn't eat it.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. It's part of the Democrat hoax treason coup to take away your guns!!!1

The evil ones will try to tell you something about home brew beer or home made bread, but don't listen to them; they're trying to distract you while they inject the nanobots into your brain.

[Rorey]

4. I love the squinty eyes on the Be Best dog

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. Resembles somebody

I should've put a link to where I found that:
http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com/2020_05_26_archive.html

[Siwsan]

6. HAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

That made my morning!!!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. and you just made mine. :D

[ehrnst]

14. LOL! (nt)

[Algernon Moncrieff]

7. You can find Rapid Rise

A lot of people took up baking in quarantine. Initially, it was thought that there would be ongoing bread shortages. Then it became something to do. My dad used to make bread years ago. The kneading was PT after hand surgery. It becomes an addictive hobby.

[pwb]

8. Trump wants more yeasts slaughtered immediately to boost supply.

[Squidly]

18. I heard...

That if you swallow a whole packet of yeast with a Clorox chaser it may cure covid-19...try it, what can it hurt?

[procon]

10. Same problem here.

I've wanted to bake bread for months, but the only yeast I found was 1 or 2 pound blocks, more yeast that I could ever need.

I'm sure people are hoarding yeast, whether to sell at a price gouging profit or they actually expect to use all their stash.

[MissB]

25. You can freeze it for years

That’s how I buy my yeast- in those bricks they sell at Costco.

[OnDoutside]

12. Must be some sort of infection ?

[redstatebluegirl]

15. I noticed that as well.

I have quite a bit in my freezer. I bake quite a bit, make a lot of homemade bread so I keep it on hand. I have found that keeping it in the freezer it lasts longer.

I think more people are baking bread that is why it is flying off the shelves. We had trouble finding flour last week as well.

[CrispyQ]

16. Here's the answer.

The Yeast Supply Chain Can’t Just Activate Itself
There’s a reason the ingredient is still missing from stores

snip...

Robb MacKie, president and CEO of the American Bakers Association, said the industry was unprepared for the run on yeast because there’s usually a lull in demand for bread products and ingredients in the first quarter of the year, while the peak typically comes during the November and December holidays. The pandemic has flipped that schedule on its head, he said, with demand surpassing what producers would expect even in the busy season.

[Siwsan]

17. Thanks!

My mother used to make a wonderful breakfast pastry that she called a St. Nicolas Ring. It was a yeast dough filled with paste made with ground almonds or walnuts, brown sugar and butter, and she added sliced maraschino cherries. That was rolled into the dough, formed into a circle and the top of the dough was sliced. Once baked, she drizzled it with icing.

I've been craving it, but now I can't even think about attempting to come SOMEWHAT close to duplicating it!

[CrispyQ]

22. Oh, that pastry ring sounds wonderful! And with cherries, too.

I love pastry with a strong cup of coffee for breakfast!

We found cake yeast the other day. I used it just like dry yeast and my pizza crust came out fine.

Active Dry Yeast vs. Compressed Yeast

[chia]

24. My mom made something very similar she called a Swedish Tea Ring. I wanted to make it

for Easter, but couldn't because I'd given my 3-part Fleischmann yeast packets to someone else who needed them.

I had no idea at the time I was giving away something so valuable...

[NameAlreadyTaken]

19. Costco Business - $4.29 for 1 pound of yeast

[yellowwoodII]

21. I Make My Own Bread--Just Curious

Luckily, I had a supply of yeast when this started.
But I'm curious. How is yeast made? Why shouldn't yeast companies just ramp up their production?

[CrispyQ]

23. Story here:

The Yeast Supply Chain Can’t Just Activate Itself

link goes to slate.com

And there's this too: https://www.bobsredmill.com/blog/baking-101/active-dry-yeast-vs-compressed-yeast/

[Nature Man]

26. George Soros and Bill Gates

cornered the yeast market to supply the pedophilia pizza franchise chain they're starting up. Using 5G technology and chemtrails, of course.

/sarcasm

[MissB]

27. Free sourdough starter

You can get some free starter - Carl Griffith’s 1847 oregon trail starter.

You do need two envelopes and two stamps but otherwise it’s free. http://carlsfriends.net/

I sent off for it a few months back. The envelope came in a couple of weeks, and sat in my kitchen for quite some time. My oldest came home from college last month and got the starter revived. He made a wonderful whole wheat sourdough loaf last week.

He’s burning through my flour pretty quickly. Yeast, I have.

[Bantamfancier]

28. My daughter runs an in home bakery.

Her sourdough starter is 3 years old. She visited some friends in San Francisco back then and was gifted with a small jar of starter that rode home on her lap. She makes and sell loaves twice a week. And woe to anyone that messes with her starter. Only she is allowed to feed and handle it.

[MiniMe]

29. I'm still having problems finding Charmin and Cottonelle