Well, guess you'd better use your flaky bisquits

[XanaDUer2]

The first time. We buy Walmart products to save money. I saved half the biscuits in tin foil.

I don't like to waste food. Well, these biscuits didn't rise. They were like cement. I ate them, but they sucked.

[MLAA]

1. Next time bake them all then freeze the leftovers 😊

[XanaDUer2]

2. Exactly. Nt

[Shermann]

3. +1

[hlthe2b]

4. Yup. I do this frequently.

[Jade Fox]

5. I can't find any canned biscuits I like....

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[XanaDUer2]

6. The Wal-Mart ones are good

We're kinda stuck with them due to price. I'm sure Pillsbury makes them. 8 for under $2 if I remember.

[Major Nikon]

14. The pilsbury frozen ones aren't bad

You can make as many as you like so it's better than canned, but not nearly as good as made from scratch. There's a learning curve to making them from scratch, but once you get it down you'll never want to do it any other way and it's the cheapest way to go.

[Jade Fox]

16. Thanks!

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. Every once in awhile

I get a can of biscuits that does that. I have no idea why. But I bake all of them at once and save the leftovers to reheat. Still, once in awhile a can of them just doesn't rise.

[Warpy]

8. The best way to rejuvenate stale bread items is to steam them

Just buy one of those cheap "flower" steamers that sit inside any size pot and steam the bread/rolls/biscuits for 5-10 minutes depending on how stale they are. Take them out and let them sit in the steamer for a minute or two for the outsides to dry.

There was always a mismatch between the number of rolls and the number of hot dogs in a pack, for instance, and this trick works really well to soften up dry and crumbly hot dog buns, dinner rolls, pita bread, flour tortillas, and even biscuits.

No, it generally doesn't work on unbaked items. You're on your own there.

[hippywife]

9. If you're talking about...

the canned/rolls of biscuits, then that's not surprising. I've been tempted before at times to only bake a partial roll, but was afraid something like that might happen.

I buy WalMart products, too, for the same reason (we're living only on our SS) and most, with few exceptions have been fine, but their frozen buttermilk biscuits are better than fine. They're pretty darn good, and incredibly convenient. You can take out and bake only what you need and put the rest back in the freezer. They come out perfect every single time, even in the toaster oven, so I won't be making biscuits from scratch anymore.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/10315729

[XanaDUer2]

10. Thank you

Our relative paid for an instacart delivery when we had covid. Wow! The price!

We could get two loads of food from Wal-Mart delivered for one instacart.

[hippywife]

11. You're welcome.

The only GV brand item we've bought so far that we didn't like was their version of strawberry newtons. Blech. Also some of their bakery items. I bought a pound cake for strawberries once and ended up throwing it out bc it tasted so bad. After you're used to baking from scratch for so long, you sometimes get a pronounced chemical aftertaste from commercial products, but don't seem to get that with these biscuits. Their fresh bake crullers aren't very good, either, just for future reference.

I don't like shopping WM and didn't for decades, but once the pandemic came along, we didn't have much choice living where we do. Our smaller local grocery chain was having issues getting in inventory (and still is to some extent), but after working for a trucking company dispatching loads to pick up and deliver refrigerated and frozen food products, I knew that suppliers would give WM priority, because they always do. So, that was our only other option.

Still boycotting Amazon, tho, 12 years and counting.

ETA: I think if you had let those other biscuits come to room temp or steamed them a little first, as Warpy suggested, they would have risen. Refrigeration and pressure keeps them from rising in the roll.

[XanaDUer2]

12. Ironically

WM didn't deliver strawberry newton's, GV. I got my money refunded. Maybe that was a good thing

[hippywife]

13. Trust me...

it was!

Their GV fig newtons are perfectly fine, tho.

[Major Nikon]

15. Here's how my grandmother did next day biscuits

She would cut them in half and fry them in a skillet with the left over lard from the bacon. We liked them better than first day.