Can you make art from unwanted or stale bread? And what can you make from the grains used to make beer? Artists and entrepreneurs around the world find creative ways to make beautiful and useful things from bread and grains.
You can listen to my podcast episode about reusing old bread and brewer’s spent grains from April 2021 in this YouTube video:
Entrepreneurs Who Creatively Reuse Unwanted Bread
Upprinting Food in the Netherlands
Toast Ale in the United Kingdom
Misadventure and Co – makes vodka from baked goods
Entrepreneurs Who Creatively Reuse Brewer’s Spent Grain
Makes flour that has 12 times the fiber, 2 times the protein and 1/3 the carbs
Regrained – Makes granola bars and snack puffs
The town of Bozeman, Montana, uses brewer’s spent grains to help with wastewater treatment
Artists Who Creative Reuse Bread
Artists who toast bread to varying colors to make murals
Junk Kouture 2019 Entry – I’d Like to Make Toast
Matteo Lucca – makes bread sculptures of people
Markus Jeschaunig – filled an Arc de Triomphe sculpture with stale bread
What You Can Make with Stale Bread or Grains
Avoid letting bread go stale by having a “Eat Soon” box
Make croutons, bread crumbs, crostini, bread pudding and French toast
Make ribollita (a vegetable stew thickened with bread) or panzanella (bread salad)
Make oatmeal cake from leftover oatmeal
Salvage a fallen or burnt cake to make a jelly roll
Make sculpture dough with white bread
Apps & Grocery Stores which Rescue Food
- Rescuing Leftover Cuisine – https://www.rescuingleftovercuisine.org/
- Food for All – https://foodforall.com/
- Olio – https://olioex.com/
- Too Good to Go – https://toogoodtogo.org/en
- Sir Plus in Germany
- Inconvenience Store in New Zealand
Bread Art (Awesome but not Creative Reuse)
- Japanese bread with cute images hidden inside the loaves that you can only see when you slice the bread (https://mymodernmet.com/konel-bread/)
- the catloaf that looks like a sleeping cat (https://mymodernmet.com/lou-lou-ps-delights-catloaf/)
- bread decorated with vegetables or edible flowers to make a bread painting (https://www.instagram.com/blondieandrye/).
