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Rice Flour--buy It At Asian Markets!

Fiddle-Faddle

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Fiddle-Faddle Community Regular
Fiddle-Faddle
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Hi, everyone, I just wanted to let the newbies know where to look for gluten-free flours!

If you have a Chinatown, International District, or Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, or Indian) food market anywhere near you, THAT is the place to look for rice flour, tapioca flour, and potato starch!

Both Chinese stores I went to today in Pittsburgh carried rice flour from Thailand (the ERAWAN maarketing company) for 69 cents for a 1-pound bag. They also had potato starch and tapioca flour in 1-pound bags for 89 cents each, and corn starch boxes for 79 cents each.

The rice flour is a very, very fine grind, similar to Authentic Foods' version (which cost me $7.89 at the grocery store for a 3-pound bag).

While I am very glad to share this info with you, I must also rant a bit here: WHY THE HECK IS AUTHENTIC FOODS CHARGING SO MUCH????????????? :ph34r:

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I've had good luck finding tapioca starch and white rice flour in the Asian sections of local stores, but haven't seen brown rice flour. Have you seen the brown rice flour anywhere but in health food stores or online? I don't usually use the white flour for anything other than gravies and sauces. I can order a 25 lb sack of br. rice flour for about 75 cents/lb, but would love to get it cheaper.

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Jestgar
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(which cost me $7.89 at the grocery store for a 3-pound bag).

Holy Cow!!

I pay ~$0.70/lb

DingoGirl Enthusiast
DingoGirl
Posted

This is very good news! The flours I have in my cupboard were SO expensive. Haven't used any of them yet....better get to work. :)

spunky Contributor
spunky
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Since going gluten free, I shop for flours (rice, gram--not graham, but gram, which is chickpea flour), huge bags of rice of all types, rice noodles of all types, potato starch, tapioca noodles and starch...these things are REALLY cheap if you buy them in the ASian markets and avoid the health food stores for flour, noodles, etc. Thanks for posting this! Everybody living gluten free ought to know about this!!! It makes it so much more affordable and just gives you a wider variety of noodles and flour and stuff.

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