Bread stales in just one day if you put it in the fridge. For best results, head to the freezer, where it stays fresher for up to a month.
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Great lesson, makes me ask what's the best way to freeze sliced bread & buns?
Good video. Bread is something I never want to run out of so I buy two loaves and put one in the freezer and the other on the counter. Bread from the freezer works good for toast.
Carb Counters/ Diabetic Special Note: freezing breads reduce blood sugar spike by nearly a third. You can bump that up to nearly 40% reduction if you freeze it (then defrost) and toast it.
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I buy a lot of bread and last week's in the fridges
It’s English but i don’t understand
geezer said it stales six times faster yet there’s only a days difference? is he a vegetable?
Used to be a bread delivery guy…and also a consumer of bread. Love it
buy bread ( size pkg) understanding that you SHOULD eat it within a few days for optimal freshness… ya will get a few more days most of the time…after that it "starts' to go bad..i.e.mold.
Your breed sucks if it gets moldy in 2 days at room temperature, its because it doesn't have a thick and crunchy crust. You have to store your breed in a wooden box covered in a paper bag, this way it can stay for 5 days. But sometimes it can mold faster especially when is extremely hot outside, then I buy less bread and I finish it in 2 days. But I'm shore that American breed sucks and it's all sliced and covered in plastic bags with a lot of sugar in them.
Are you kidding me? I always put my bread in the fridge. Still as good as the first time I bought them after 3 day or even a week..
Cap..I have always refrigerated bread and I'm fine.
Tortillas?
i always store my bread in fridge and sometimes a month
Just put the bread box in the refrigerator. There you go. Best Of Both Breads. lol…
Never had good results Thawing out frozen store bought sliced bread. The texture becomes crumbly and not as soft.
Nah. I kept my bread out on the kitchen table and got moldy. Now, i keep my bread in my fridge (at 3 out of 5 setting, 5 being the coldest) and its been good since because i can finish the small loaf in a week.
Is this homade bread ? Mine has mold in 2-3 days. Home-made white bread. I live in Malaysia where the weather is hot and humid. Any tips on making the loaf last longer? Usually I store it in a plastic. Container
You must hate nike then.
"just DON'T DO IT!"
I have a recipe or three for my bakery using coconut flour. Looks like white bread but delicious. Before i knew this i kept it in the fridge and lasted over 6 weeks. No mold.
I experimented with this and totally disagree. My bread keeps up to 8 days in the refrigerator, sometimes longer. At room temperature it never lasts past 4-5 days. I do agree with freezing though; however, you may want to discuss how to defrost the bread after freezing.
This is ridiculous advice. On practicality, do you really expect people to thaw bread?
Bread stores great at room temperature as long as it's stored air tight.
i put it in the fridge to slow down mold… 2 days at room temp is BS and freezing is not practical. I need to buy a loaf of bread, and have it not go moldy for a week-10 days, but not be frozen cuz i need quick access. in that case
I FRIDGE MY BREAD ALL DAY ER DAY
I disagree. I can keep bread for 1 or 2 months past the typical molding time. But…. I steam my bread before use for a few minutes. Seems completely fresh as if it was baked recent. And if you bake it after steaming, it brings a dry outside after steaming.
Commercially made bread with preservatives keeps forever except in high humidity, while homemade bread molds quickly. Freeze bread in slices and defrost in a microwave for 10 seconds to use it. Even at room temperature it thaws fast. Make your sandwich before leaving the house; it's thawed and ready to eat by lunchtime. I've found that he is right: Bread stales rapidly in the refrigerator.
Yupp frozen…
What about fridge temperature? I keep mine at 2C. It does wonders for the shelf life of the foods.
I soak my bread in barrels of vodka. When time come I need a loaf of the bread, I drink out the vodka, dry out the bread and viola! You have fresh bread and a good feeling.
Defrosting protocol?
"Bread left in the fridge might appear stale. But, explains Myhrvold, that’s not due to a lack of moisture — refrigerated bread seems hard because of starch retrogradation, or the re-crystallization of the starch in the bread. “It [the bread] will seem stiffer and we associate stiffness, or lack of softness, with staleness,” says Myhrvold. But, the bread is less likely to actually go stale in the fridge (as opposed to leaving it in a bread box on your counter).
You can reverse the starch crystallization by warming up your bread."
https://www.chatelaine.com/food/kitchen-tips/store-bread-in-the-fridge/
Your math doesn't add up. You said bread in the refrigerator stales in one day, and at room temperature it stales in 2 days. You later said refrigerated bread stales six times faster than bread at room temperature.
That's odd. I keep my bread, in the bag or comes in, in the fridge.
And it not only smells fresh, but stays fresh for a week.
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I put all my bread in the fridge, never tastes bad or stale, and keeps for a long time. Been hearing this same thing for years, to not do it, but I don't get it.
I usually trust ATK on everything, but this is curious, because my experience says otherwise. Maybe I just keep my refrigerator cold enough.
Ok next video. How to eat frozen bread? I freeze my loaf bread to prevent molding. But I just toast them for breakfast. I can’t imagine eating them without being toasted.
You explicitly say you tested rustic bread. What about store-bought pre-sliced sandwich bread? That's designed to last a week or so on the counter/in a breadbox anyway.
I keep a loaf of hearty whole wheat sandwich bread in the fridge, since it takes me a month or so to go through the whole thing. By the end of that month, the bread is certainly sub-optimal, but works fine for a midnight PB&J or weekday breakfast toast, which is what I keep it around for.
Fresh bread from the local bakery or my own kitchen is certainly not as good after the first 24 hours, and only the freezer can save it from that fate. But in my experience, pre-sliced commercial sandwich bread – especially hearty whole wheat/multigrain – is another story.