I just started getting into homemade bread. I have noticed that when I eat homemade bread versus store-bought bread I always end up with heartburn.
I mentioned it to my boyfriend and he said that he's also getting heartburn from eating the bread.
Is there anything I can tweak about my recipe to stop this weird side effect?
Currently the bread recipes I have tried are very simple. The ingredients are:
-Brear flour
-Milk
-Egg
-Instant dry Yeast
-salt
-butter
-honey
by lil_tink_tink
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Maybe you are lactose intolerant? Try to make bread with yeast salt water and flour
Try r/sourdough. I’ve never had an issue with it.
This has happened to me before too, no clue why. Its unrelated to milk for me though. Usually it happens when I make sourdough
Do you experience similar symptoms from any other foods or other stimulus?
What brand of flour/type of flour did you use?
Sorry, this isn’t the question you asked but your loaf is stunning. Would you mind sharing the recipe?
honey allergy?
So, I gotta assume you are not eating sandwich bread just by itself… What are you putting on the bread exactly? It makes more sense that your sandwiches are causing the heartburn.
Are you sure it’s the bread or something you put on the bread?
Are you eating it late at night because it’s so delicious you can’t resist a slice before bed?
Try sourdough, you can get cast iron loaf pans if you wanna use it for sandwiches.
Sourdough is supposed to be easier to digest and may help with youre heart burn issue. Maybe buy a loaf from a farmers market or local baker and eat that for a week, just to see if that help with heartburn before you go head first into sourdough
Sounds like a food intolerance developing to me. That’s the first symptom I had when I developed an egg intolerance.
I’ve suffered with GERD for nearly 40 years now. In my experience, if I have some damage in my esophagus, nearly anything I eat will cause heartburn. I have to focus on taking a PPI med for about two weeks straight to help heal the damage, avoiding the usual trigger foods like citrus and tomato sauce, and eating slowly in small amounts with plenty of water.
Bread is not a usual trigger, but a large amount could be difficult for the esophagus to pass and cause some pain – especially if there’s some pre-existing damage.
If this is unusual for you and somewhat out of nowhere, it might be worth looking into some dairy free bread to see if that makes a difference.
MD here- lactose intolerance won’t really give you heartburn. You might get stomach cramps, diarrhea etc but not “heartburn” per se. The things in this recipe that might contribute are the fats and the sugars which both relax the lower esophageal sphincter allowing acid reflux to happen. FWIW eating a lot, and especially right before bed also contribute to heartburn. At my house I’m usually making sourdough (flour, water, salt, starter) without any extra fat or sugar. You might try that approach? I know that when I do make bread with sugar or honey, eggs, etc it’s kind of treat and gets treated like cake… ie wolfed down and leading to all of the symptoms of “I really ate too much of that”
What brand of store bread do you buy? Look at the ingredients on the label. Are there any ingredients you are using that store bought isn’t? Probably those ones causing the problem for you.
Maybe it’s the egg. Maybe it’s the milk? Try this recipe.
5-6 cups bread or all purpose flour start with 5
2 cups water
1 1/2 Tbsp instant yeast
1/4 cup of honey
4 tbsp butter
2 1/2 tsp salt
For those that can handle milk I do 1 1/2 cup of water and 1/2 cup of milk. I used to add an egg but realized it’s not necessary.
Also I tried your version OP with those ingredients and have never had heart burn.
Milk and egg? Are you baking a cake?
Flour, water, salt, yeast.
All you need.
Better flour. Organic stone ground whole wheat is best for digestion.
Get a prescription of nexium
This is enriched bread since it has milk, butter, etc. I would guess heartburn stems from the saturated fats in the butter.
What type of flour are you using? I have MTHFR and when I eat enriched flour I get heartburn. I have to use specific flours in my breads – I dont find it changes the quality one bit. King Arthur blue bag is not enriched neither is 100% whole wheat but may have to adjust your recipe if using WW. I eat spicy chili, jalapeños often, hot cheetos, and many other spicy type foods. Nothing gives me heartburn like enriched flour products do.
My daughter can’t eat bread fresh out of the oven. A dietitian told her to toast it and it helps significantly. Could be worth trying.
I have gotten heartburn from just bread before as well, so I understand what you are talking about. Interesting that you are both experiencing it.
You need to eliminate one ingredient at a time to see what the culprit is. And sometimes, it’s a combination of ingredients. I never have an issue with sourdough. Grains soaked for a long period or overnight are much easier to digest.
I Hope you get to the bottom of it, but I just wanted to comment since I’ve had the same experience and it did not have anything to do with a topping being on the bread for me. But if I had to guess, I would say to try a recipe without and sweetener first.
I find a lot of carbs increases my heartburn. Bread? Heartburn, cake? Heartburn. Steak, no Heartburn. Spicy chicken wings? no Heartburn. How does this make any sense? My body is weird.
are you in usa? what flour are you using?
It could be the brear flour that caused the heartburn since we normally use bread flour. /s
Jokes aside, if the ingredients used to make bread don’t usually give you heartburn, I have to agree with one of the redditors saying it’s from the ingredients used to make sandwich.
Eat vegetables and less bread
What brand and type is the flour?