I’d like to do something like this—it turns out we go through flour with breathtaking speed if I’m trying to personally keep up with household bread consumption through baking. But I can’t find a distributor! I looked at the ones in my area listed on King Arthur Flour’s website, and one doesn’t have it (I think; they have no search function so I had to look manually through pages of random foods), and the other won’t let me check without my having a restaurant account.
For the KA SP, https://www.webstaurantstore.com/king-arthur-flour-special-patent-50-lb-flour/104NFL5105S.html , it looks to me like it would ship to you at $38 for one bag or $33/each for ten bags. If you choose larger quantities it gets even cheaper, but they’ll want to do common carrier shipping which is a pain to unload (because getting the good of the truck is your job and not the driver’s).
I’d like to do something like this—it turns out we go through flour with breathtaking speed if I’m trying to personally keep up with household bread consumption through baking. But I can’t find a distributor! I looked at the ones in my area listed on King Arthur Flour’s website, and one doesn’t have it (I think; they have no search function so I had to look manually through pages of random foods), and the other won’t let me check without my having a restaurant account.
It looks to me like you could get King Arthur Special Patent? It’s slightly higher gluten (12.7% instead of 11.7%: https://www.kingarthurflour.com/pro/products) but I think it’s a decent all-purpose? Or you could get You could get high gluten flour, low gluten flour, and mix them depending on what you wanted to make? https://www.webstaurantstore.com/8935/bulk-flour.html
For the KA SP, https://www.webstaurantstore.com/king-arthur-flour-special-patent-50-lb-flour/104NFL5105S.html , it looks to me like it would ship to you at $38 for one bag or $33/each for ten bags. If you choose larger quantities it gets even cheaper, but they’ll want to do common carrier shipping which is a pain to unload (because getting the good of the truck is your job and not the driver’s).
You could try asking a local bakery if they would be willing to sell to you. They might be willing to tell you who their supplier is too.
Just be sure to go to the location with the active ovens (if there are multiple locations) or call ahead.