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Franz Gluten Free Bread Products

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Chiqeeey Newbie
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Beginning in October 2021, I began experiencing problems with Franz gluten-free Seven Grain Bread.  I was paying $7.50 a loaf for air.

Then the same thing started happening with the hamburger buns.  I have photos of the products but I do not know how to add them to 

this topic.  Don't get me wrong,  I like the taste of the Franz gluten-free breads, especially the hamburger buns.

I emailed Franz and I was sent complimentary coupons for free bread.  When I emailed a second time about the air in the hamburger buns, I received a 

box of white bread, seven grain bread and the hamburger buns.  Plus they threw in a new product (new to me) frozen cookie dough.  Has anyone tried those yet?

They are plant based.  But I digress.

Last night, I opened the hamburger buns and took one bun.  There are four in a package.  I split it in half and globbed on a bunch of butter.  When I put the last 

piece in my mouth, I bit down on something hard.  I thought it was a piece of tooth.  Low and behold, it was a straight pin.  I don't know how it didn't stick into 

my tongue or cheek.  Thank God for that.  I immediately took a picture and sent it in an email to Franz last night.  I have yet to hear back from them. 

I have a friend who used to buy the Franz gluten-free bread.  She got tired of paying for crust only.  She just stopped buying it.  Has anyone else had this problem?

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Scott Adams Grand Master
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I've been eating their bread for years without any issues, and I get the two loaves at Costco for a much better price than any other gluten-free bread I can find. As you know, its also a whole grain bread, which is great.

The only issues I've noticed is that occasionally there are large air bubbles in some of the loaves, which can be annoying, but I found this to also happen with all other GF breads I've tried.

The pin issue is a real problem, and it's good that you reported it. Wow...I wonder how that happened?

Chiqeeey Newbie
Chiqeeey
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18 hours ago, Scott Adams said:

I've been eating their bread for years without any issues, and I get the two loaves at Costco for a much better price than any other gluten-free bread I can find. As you know, its also a whole grain bread, which is great.

The only issues I've noticed is that occasionally there are large air bubbles in some of the loaves, which can be annoying, but I found this to also happen with all other gluten-free breads I've tried.

The pin issue is a real problem, and it's good that you reported it. Wow...I wonder how that happened?

About 10 years ago, my husband bought the Bready machine.  It came with prepackaged bread mix.  The label was scanned by the machine and then the bag was placed on the machine.  All that was needed was to add eggs and water.  The machine mixed the ingredients, kneaded it and poured in a pan.  Then it baked the mix to a delicious smelling loaf of bread.  The rye bread was to die for.  There were never any holes in the slices.  The machine and the mixes were very expensive but I thought it was worth it.  Then the company disappeared.  We could not order any more mixes.  I believe the company was based in Kansas.  We gave the machine away because it was useless without the bag of mixes.   

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I remember Bready! You can use recipes in any bread machine, but too late! I suspect when Panasonic and other big companies got into the space it likely hurt their sales:

 

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