Looks Like Good Value, But This Bread Is Very Expensive (Warburtons Danish White bread)

Member Name: janharper

Product:	Warburtons Danish White bread
Date:	13/08/09 (43 review reads)
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Advantages: Light, fresh, soft bread

Disadvantages: Whipped up, not filling, expensive

When it comes to white sliced bread, I usually prefer Warburtons because it lasts longer and freezes well, but their Danish bread did not come up to my expectations.

This is a 400g loaf of bread in a light blue plastic bag type of wrapper. It is expensive at 83p for a half size loaf. A standard sized large Kingsmill loaf weighs in at 800g, and cost about £1.07 although bread comes in many different weights now, so this is certainly a highly priced loaf.

This Danish bread is whipped up and very light so a loaf may look the same size as a standard large one but you are actually getting half the weight. The slices themselves are small so you will need three or four if you normally eat two slices of bread.

The bread itself is ultra soft and very thin, and it does not make very good sandwiches because the bread falls to bits and tears as you eat it. I almost had a disaster with a chicken salad sandwich. The bread started to tear as I was eating and all the filling burst through the bread and ended up all down my front. I'm not usually such a messy eater!

I don't particularly like it for toast either, because it tends to go hard before it is brown enough for me. There is a distinct choice between hard toast that breaks and crumbles as you eat it, or soft rubbery toast. Neither suits me.

I didn't like the consistency of this when it came to dunking it in soup, either. It just seemed to go all soggy and almost melt into the soup. It isn't very filling either and at 61 calories a slice I thought it might be healthier to eat one slice of filling bread instead of three of these.

On the positive side it lasts for about three days after opening but needs to be kept somewhere cool or it will get that strange, foisty smell of 'sweating bread'. It does keep well I the freezer and doesn't go yellow, or grey like some of the cheaper loaves do after thawing. In fact I would say that the thawed bread keeps as long as it does from fresh.

Summary: Compared to the price of an 800g loaf of premium white bread, this is extremely expensive.