100% Whole Wheat Bread (Non-Dense/Heavy, White Bread Texture)

WOW!!! This recipe has completely replaced store bought bread for my family! Perfect for sandwiches,and soooo much healthier. I made it exactly as directed, using advice from others to spray the tops while baking. I kneaded by hand (don't have a mixer), but since my family loves the bread so much, I will probably buy a heavy mixer. (I haven't had a good excuse yet;) thanks so much for this recipe!!!!

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This is the most wonderful, tender, tasty whole wheat bread I have ever eaten! I threw away all the other recipes I had. This is the one!

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Finally my search for the perfect 100% whole wheat bread comes to an end:) This bread rose beautifully, has perfect texture,cuts well and tastes really great. What more could one ask for?
Oh.. and the instructions are very clear and easy to follow. Thank you for posting.

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Yummy! I'm a beginner but I still produced a great bread with excellent results! Though, my bread didn't form a nice poof that characterizes a sandwich bread when going into the oven- it may have been my finger that punctured the dough when transporting it, but it deflated- Nevertheless, it was still fluffy on the inside and a crunchy, crusty load!

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Excellent! I was looking for a soft supermarket style bread that my kids would eat, but without all the preservatives. I recommend this recipe unconditionally. I followed the recipe exactly, except that I reduced the salt to 2/3 Tbsp, and I used King Arthur White Whole Wheat flour. This is definitely worth a try. One caveat: The recipe uses a lot of flour. I have a Kitchen Aid mixer and it can handle it, but just barely. Thank you for a fabulous recipe!!!

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Amazing. Wheat bread that is nearly as light as a commercial sandwich loaf. I do recommend using a heavy duty stand mixer. There is no way my Artisan could have mixed this without overheating but my P600 which I use for bread kneaded the dough well and only got a little warm. I heated my oven for 30 seconds on the warm setting while the dough was kneading, turned the oven off and opened the door a little. I set the bowl inside with the door slightly ajar to rise. It was the most beautiful dough to work with. Just by looking at it I knew the loaves would be light and high and they were. I followed another reviewer's advice and reduced the bake time. I did 15 minutes at 375 and 14 minutes at 350. The internal temp was at 200 degrees. I brushed the loaves with egg white and sprinkled on Everything Bagel topping (King Arthur) before baking. It gave the bread a nice added flavor. My family loves this recipe, thanks so much for sharing.

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Absolutely the most amazing whole wheat bread I've ever eaten. I've tried several wheat breads, but they all require either some white flour or end up hard as rocks. This bread is light, fluffy, and so full of flavor. I did substitute 1/3 cup honey for the sugar and replaced 1/2 cup water with 1/2 milk since I didn't have any dry milk. I also forfeited loaves and instead made large buns for sandwiches. I am not high altitude, so I baked 15 mins at 375 and 15 mins at 350 for a perfect golden brown. This recipe + locally ground whole wheat flour + local raw honey = AMAZING. I'll never use another whole wheat recipe. THANK YOU!

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Excellent bread recipe! I actually started out wanting to halve this recipe but forgot and made the whole batch. The motor on my 5qt Kitchenaid was smelling burnt 2 min into the kneading, so I split the dough and kneaded separately. A few notes - I only had regular active dry yeast (it was fine), used a little over 5 cups of white whole wheat flour, nonfat instant dry milk instead of baker's dry milk, 6 rounded tbsp of gluten, honey instead of the sugar and about 1/2 cup of sunflower seeds (terrific addition). I accidentally let it rise for almost 90 min the first rise - it almost trebled. But I just punched it down gently, kneaded some and shaped it. Turned out fine. Thanks for the recipe, Narshmellow!

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MMmmmm.... aaaahhhh.... ooooohhhh... this is sooooooo... mmmmm... deliccccciiious!!! I am getting more and more into bread baking - artisan breads, whole wheat breads, etc. and this is going to be one of my regulars for sure. I took the tip from Chef and used 1/4 cup of hone instead of white sugar, but aside from that I used the recipe exactly as written. The result was two of the brownest, tenderest, lightest loaves of 100% whole wheat bread I could ever imagine turning out in my own kitchen. Absolutely fabulous. Gracias, Narshmellow - this is a winner!

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O...M....G! This bread turned out FANTASTIC! Like many others, I've tries using various whole wheat bread-bread machine recipes and they all gave me dense and overly chewy loaves.... until I tried yours that is. I followed your recipe to the T, and whenever you quoted a rising time of 45mins-1hour, I went with the longer duration of time. Also, I sprayed some water on the loaves when they were baking at 5 mins, 15 mins and 25 mins - this made the crust EXACTLY like store bought bread. This is the ONLY recipe i will use from now on. I previously felt like I HAD to add white flour to my whole wheat dough to get the "Store-bought" bread porosity and texture, but I was SO wrong. I'm going to try making this bread with my multigrain bread flour next time too - wish me luck! : ).. thank you sooooooo much for posting!!!!

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I love, love, LOVE this bread! The recipe is awesome - clear instructions make it simple enough for bread making noobs like myself. It's very easy to mix/knead in my Kitchen Aid mixer, and the rising times are spot on. What's more, the taste is phenomenal! My family can't wait for it to come out of the oven every Saturday afternoon. I don't buy bread anymore, I make this recipe weekly. Thanks for sharing it, Narshmellow!

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I love this very tasty light bread and my picky 4 year old ate it too. I can do this in my bread machine (stirring and kneading only) if I do one loaf at a time and start over after 45 minutes. I bake in the oven because I really don't like bread baked in the machine.

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I give this 3 stars b/c of the difficulty in making it. It turned out good, but not really worth the time it took. I would much rather have used a simpler recipe in my bread machine. For beginners, I would not take the time or risk for that matter.

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I too have been searching for a light-textured wheat bread. This is PERFECT! I will have to cut back to one loaf at a time though, my KitchenAid was smoking after kneading two loaves worth of dough. Thanks so much Narshmellow!!

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This is a great recipe, my bread turned out just as described, non-dense non heavy, light and fluffy just like store bought whole wheat bread! I followed the recipe exactly, ended up adding 4 cups of whole wheat flour to the dough. Tips for beginners like me - to determine how much flour is enough, your dough should not stick to your hand or countertop, it should peel away from the side of mixing bowl or your hand but still feel a little sticky. If the dough sticks, add some more flour. I knead the dough in Kitchen Aid stand mixer at speed 2 for 10 minutes. another tip for beginners, when kneading your dough in the Kitchenaid mixer, your dough should form a ball/balloon hooked on the hook, moving with the mixer hook, and it should look like a balloon been squeezed between the walls of the mixer bowl and the hook. For warm water, I used 110F degrees for both sponge and dough. When baking, when the temperature inside the bread reaches about 190-200 degrees it's ready. Thanks Narshmellow for sharing this great recipe!

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This is my new favorite bread! I love heavy whole wheat breads, but my DH doesn't. This one makes us both happy. It's going to be my regular bread recipe from now on. Thanks Narshmellow!

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I've been making bread for years and have a collection of the best baking books. Hands down, this is the absolute best whole wheat bread recipe ever. No need to look elsewhere. If you want the a crowd-pleasing wholesome bread, this is it.

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This is a great recipe. I've found a lot of success using weight measurements for the dry goods here's what I use: 12 grams fast rising yeast 3/4 cup warm water 120 grams whole wheat flour 2 cups warm water 240 grams whole wheat flour 34 grams dry milk 60 grams vital wheat gluten 10 grams salt 64 grams sugar 1/4 cup oil 480 grams whole wheat flour Get yourself a good scale and this works great every time!

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This is the first bread recipe I've made using only whole wheat flour that actually turned out like bread and not a very large hocky puck. I'm so happy! My DH loves it , my daughter (the picky one) loves it. And it's healthy! Update: I've been making this bread for two months now. I cut the salt by half and use 1/4 cup honey in place of the white sugar. It's a little healthier and we like the taste better.

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I halved all the ingredients then started with the sponge in my bread machine and 1 hour later added the rest in order and started the bread cycle. It is wonderful.

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