Bob's Red Mill Gluten Flour, 22-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4)

by Bob's Red Mill

Product Features

• Case of four 22-ounce packages (88 total ounces)
• Made from 100% natural wheat gluten
• An excellent source of protein
• Adds volume to whole grain breads
• Packaged in Milwaukie, Oregon

Product Description

About the Brand

Bob Moore's secret to life may just be "work hard and keep it simple." Living this philosophy, Bob literally puts his nose to the grindstone every day. Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods is an Oregon-based company that utilizes simple, old-world technology to mill hundreds of all-natural whole grain products.

Bob's Red Mill is dedicated to the manufacturing of natural foods in the natural way. In their own words: "With all the sophisticated knowledge of recent times, no machinery has yet been developed that grinds grains into flour quite as well as our flint-hard quartz millstones quarried in France and used by discriminating millers since early Roman times."

"Our well-dressed (sharpened) sets of millstones turn the highest quality wheat into a finer, better baking bread flour than all the hammer mills, steel roller mills, steel buhr mills, or pulverizers ever built! These slow turning millstones grind the bran, endosperm, and germ (containing its nutritious wheat germ oil) into flour in a cool natural way, creating a more assimilable food."

Bob's Red Mill stone grinds all common and most uncommon grains into flours and meals on its over 100-year-old mills. They mix them into an astounding array of unique cereals, pancake and waffle mixes, machine and hand-made bread mixes, quick bread mixes, gluten-free mixes, and specialty grain products.

Product Description

Bob's Red Mill Vital Wheat Gluten is made from the natural protein found in the endosperm of the wheat berry. When combined with water it becomes highly elastic and taffy-like. Added to bread dough, it helps retain the gas and steam from baking and gives more volume to the baked bread. It can be especially helpful for baking breads made with coarse, whole grain flours and cereals. Bob's Red Mill is the most unique flour mill in the Northwest. We use century old stone grinding equipment to freshly mill whole grain products. Delight your family with whole grain goodness. All natural. Bob's Vital Wheat Gluten is 75 to 80% protein. Add about one tablespoon per cup flour in your bread recipe and improve texture and elasticity and help your bread rise.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EDK5LM
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,168 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)
  • #2 in Grocery & Gourmet Food > Cooking & Baking Supplies > Flours & Meals > Wheat Flours & Meals

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars perfect for making seitan, the wheat-meat!, December 16, 2006

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Gregory N. (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bob's Red Mill Gluten Flour, 22-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4) (Grocery)

I use Bob's Red Mill wheat gluten flour for making seitan, a wheat-gluten "meat" familiar to vegans and vegetarians. It is very easy to use, is obviously high-quality, and keeps well. I've found Bob's works the best out of all the brands for this use. I just wish that it was organic and that they made bigger bags (the case comes with a lot of packaging, which seems like a waste).

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for Seitan, July 19, 2009

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M. K. Blue (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bob's Red Mill Gluten Flour, 22-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4) (Grocery)

Bob's Red Mill Gluten Flour is perfect for making seitan. Your success will depend on the recipe that you use. An online search for "seitan recipes" will net you several, including videos showing the steps to success. Here is my Chicken-ish Seitan Patties recipe.

Chicken-ish Seitan Patties

Dry Ingredients:
1 cup gluten flour
2 TBS garbanzo bean flour
2 TBS nutritional yeast
1/4 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp rosemary
1 tsp sage
1/2 tsp marjoram
1 tsp onion powder
Pepper to taste

Wet ingredients:
2 TBS cashew butter
2 Edward & Sons Not-Chick'n Bouillon Cubes
1 +/- cup cold water

Mix all of the dry ingredients and set aside. I used 4 turns of the pepper mill. I grind the rosemary and thyme with a pestle in a mortar before adding to the dry ingredients.

Mix all of the wet ingredients. I put all of the wet ingredients into a personal blender and mixed it up. Add the blended wet ingredients to the dry and mix well. If necessary, add additional water. If the mixture is a bit sloshy at this point, you've added too much water. This can be fixed with the addition of a tiny bit of gluten. I also let the mixture set for a couple of minutes to let the water be absorbed.

Measure out some aluminum foil squares approximately 8 inches wide. Measure out a heaping 1/4 cup of the mixture onto the middle of your foil. Pat the mixture down into a patty, then fold the aluminum foil making a tight pouch. Continue until all of the gluten mixture is used up. I believe that I got 6 patties out of the mixture.

Place packets into a steamer and steam over boiling water for approximately 35 minutes. Remove from heat. The patties can be used at this point however you wish.

Possible changes: Tahini can be used in place of the cashew butter. Obviously any kind of chicken bullion can be used.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for wheat breads., October 27, 2007

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E. Nonimiss "buyer" (Bay Area) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bob's Red Mill Gluten Flour, 22-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4) (Grocery)

I add the gluten flour to whole wheat breads for rising and it works well. Bob's products are always fresh and top quality. I wish that this particular product came with other package quantity options. I do not bake enough to warrant the four pack and have to keep it stored in the freezer, then bring it to room temperature before using for (my recipe's) best results.