Paper bags for storing home baking?

tcif

I home bake a lot and I'm not a fan of bread bins or tupperware for storing bread. I'd prefer to use just basic paper bags - the sort that are always by the bread aisles in any supermarket - but I can't find anywhere selling just plain paper bags. Does anyone know where these can be bought? Thanks!

Graces7

tcif wrote: »

I home bake a lot and I'm not a fan of bread bins or tupperware for storing bread. I'd prefer to use just basic paper bags - the sort that are always by the bread aisles in any supermarket - but I can't find anywhere selling just plain paper bags. Does anyone know where these can be bought? Thanks!

Used to get them at stationers.. or wrap in brown paper which you can buy by the roll.. Or ask at the supermarket where they get them?

Speedsie

Alpack is usually great for that sort of thing, but all their bags seen to have handles.
http://www.alpack.ie/categories.html?filter_set[]=90,193

Have you tried Amazon? Search for kraft paper bag & the size you'd like.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01N5AI4Q9?psc=1

tcif

I tried the stationers (and the supermarkets and the art shops and the baking supply places and just about anywhere I could think of that wasn't clothing or hardware) with no joy. I tried the local printers who supply a lot of the smaller shops in my local town but they weren't interested in a small order.

Online they all seem to be trade only. Thanks for the tip about Alpack - I had seen their site and their delivery info said all delivery is by "tail lift truck" which I took to be wholesale/trade but I'll get in touch and ask. I'd also seen Amazon but none of the suppliers ship to Ireland, although I think An Post have some new service that might help with that, now that I think of it. Might be my best bet.

Anyway, thanks for the replies! I was really beginning to wonder was I missing some trick when something so simple and common was proving so hard to get hold of. That every shop has them but no shop seems to sell them baffles me....

Speedsie

Hi, yoy really need a wholesalers or shop supplies place - Musgrave's or Cash & Cary. Parcel motel/parcel wizard/address pal are the services to use for items that will not ship to Ireland.

You can collect from Alpack, where in the country are you based?

There's also http://www.packagingdirect.ie/other-products/paper-bags-tissue/mg-kraft-11-x14-500.html

Cheshire Cat

I know you are looking for paper, but have you considered a fabric bag? I like to keep my home baked bread in a cotton or linen bag. Something like this: http://bakerybits.co.uk/cotton-bread-bag-40x50cm.html

Graces7

Alpack are wholesale.
Have dealt with them a lot in the past for jars.Great firm.

I was searching the well stocked cupboards here for something and came across a packet of paper lunch bags, from a firm in Roscrea.. thought of you!

They are Walsh but seem now to be also wholesale and do not have that line now

I meant by the way ask at the bread counter in the supermarket. Usually a kind person will give a few.

dealz had a wide selection of stationery eg greaseproof and rolls of brown paper; easy enough to make your own. I would do that.

Assuming you have googled? Try this

http://www.down2earthmaterials.ie/product-category/bags-to-go/?gclid=CjwKEAiAz4XFBRCW87vj6-28uFMSJAAHeGZbRN9UsoMX4q5VMEiGWZ586vd0o2PTJlHEpHgIOfPlIxoChPHw_wcB

tcif

Speedsie wrote: »

Hi, yoy really need a wholesalers or shop supplies place - Musgrave's or Cash & Cary. Parcel motel/parcel wizard/address pal are the services to use for items that will not ship to Ireland.

You can collect from Alpack, where in the country are you based?

There's also http://www.packagingdirect.ie/other-products/paper-bags-tissue/mg-kraft-11-x14-500.html

Thanks again, Speedsie. I'm in Kildare so collecting from Alpack would definitely be a runner and I'll check out the other site too.

Cheshire Cat wrote: »

I know you are looking for paper, but have you considered a fabric bag? I like to keep my home baked bread in a cotton or linen bag. Something like this: http://bakerybits.co.uk/cotton-bread-bag-40x50cm.html

Ahh...that hadn't occurred to me but it's certainly a thought and might be easier in the long run than constantly going through paper bags (although they were destined for the compost bin for aeration after use so not going to waste). Thanks, Cheshire Cat!

tcif

Graces7 wrote: »

Alpack are wholesale.
Have dealt with them a lot in the past for jars.Great firm.

Good to know! I might want a few of those when the gooseberry bushes I planted last year really get going and I get into jam mode

Graces7 wrote: »

They are Walsh but seem now to be also wholesale and do not have that line now

Small world! I tried Walshes at the suggestion of someone in Bernie's SuperValu (who did kindly give me a few to keep me going) as they get their bags there but no luck.

Graces7 wrote: »

Assuming you have googled? Try this
http://www.down2earthmaterials.ie/product-category/bags-to-go/?gclid=CjwKEAiAz4XFBRCW87vj6-28uFMSJAAHeGZbRN9UsoMX4q5VMEiGWZ586vd0o2PTJlHEpHgIOfPlIxoChPHw_wcB

Will do. Their blurb says they sell to business but I guess I won't know unless I ask...

Graces7

tcif wrote: »

Good to know! I might want a few of those when the gooseberry bushes I planted last year really get going and I get into jam mode



Small world! I tried Walshes at the suggestion of someone in Bernie's SuperValu (who did kindly give me a few to keep me going) as they get their bags there but no luck.



Will do. Their blurb says they sell to business but I guess I won't know unless I ask...

Invent a name.. I am "Hands of Grace" when they ask that.

Dizzyblonde

I buy jars from epackaging.ie but they don't seem to do the type of paper bags you're looking for. A Google search threw up McFarlane Packaging who do them in various sizes and sell to private buyers. You can have them delivered or collect from their premises in Newtownmountkennedy.

https://www.macfarlanepackaging.ie/bags/counter-paper-bags.html/

annamcmahon

https://www.nisbets.ie/search/?text=Paper+bags
Nisbets in Cork sell them. Anyone can open an account with them.

tcif

Thanks a mill to everyone who replied and for all the links and suggestions, I really appreciate it.

I think I'm going to try the cloth bag approach - I like the idea of something I can wash and reuse - and when I stop to think about it, for soda bread at least it seems a logical next step from wrapping in a tea towel and we'll see how well it does for yeast breads. I think I feel some baking coming on