• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I refrigerate bread. It’s much better and more effective than a bread box. My parents did not refrigerate bread because they live in a different part of the country where it would not mold over as quickly.

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      3 days ago

      Refrigeration slows down development of molds, but at the same time expedites starch retrogradation, leading to the bread going stale quicker.

      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
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        3 days ago

        Rather have slightly stale bread then molded bread 🤷‍♂️

        Can’t even tell its stale when you toast it a little and make a sandwich or something with it.

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        3 days ago

        Didn’t know this. Makes sense now why the bread is so much not crumbly. We don’t eat out bread quickly enough and with the humidity where I am in Aus it just started making sense to refrigerate.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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      3 days ago

      I honestly freeze almost all my bread. I don’t go through a loaf nearly fast enough to finish it off before the remaining slices start going fuzzy.

      In the freezer I can take out slices as and when needed.

      But if my tiny freezer box is full, the fridge will also buy me several days.