John Unrein is the editor of bake. He has been at Sosland Publishing since 2001, covering the retail baking industry. Unrein is a 1984 graduate of the University of Kansas.
Gluten-free products have become tremendously popular in recent years, and non-gluten Japanese rice flour offers a safe alternative as it contains even less gluten compared to gluten-free labeled foods.
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Regardless of the brand, the baker must have consistently good flour that performs throughout the mixing, make up, holding stages (retarder or freezer), baking and packaging stages of the product.