Bread does not go in the fridge.

I went to a friends house and they had the bread in the fridge and it was so weird.

I really, really hate the taste of previously-frozen bread. I can only stand it toasted after it's been frozen.

For whatever reason, one of my relatives buys huge quantities of bread and then freezes.... I always think to myself, why don't you just buy a normal quantity and eat it fresh? :shrug:

In my neck of things, bread goes stale inside a sealed bag pronto. Fridge extends that.

Also, in cockroach land, cereal boxes go in the oven. :D

we used the fridge










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otherwise it molds almost overnight.

Actually, keeping as many items as you can in the fridge saves a good bit of energy. A mostly empty fridge works harder to stay cold.

...It's the cold air falling out, and having to be re-cooled when you close it, that makes that happen.

More stuff in the fridge = less air.



...I shall now take my home-ec geekness elsewhere. Away! :D

Of course it goes there

Zing!

OK, I should toddle off to bed now. :D

and we keep it in the cabinet.

I don't eat it very quickly, so it goes moldy before I finish the loaf if I don't keep it in the refrigerator. :shrug:

one of the gazillion reasons I left home :P

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And I haven't had bread in MONTHS.

The family likes it though.

Don't mind puttin in there m'self tho

If not, you better keep it in the fridge. Keeping bread in the fridge is the only way to keep it eatable unless you scarf it down right away.

makes it taste like crap.

I tend to put it out of the fridge because my fridge is damned small.

unless you want moldy bread. :)

We don't always put ours in there but if it's extremely humid I will put it in the fridge.

I have to put it in the frig, otherwise it goes bad rather quickly.

if you want to keep it, put it in a plastic bag, but keep it out the fridge.

Also, don't eat shit bread with lots of sugar in it. Find a bakery, and get some real bread. It'll keep much longer.

Basically, if I want to eat bread more than 6 hours after I bought it, I have to keep it in the fridge.

... and where you live. I keep some kinds in the fridge- it just depends.

My last apartment had an ant infestation, the fridge was the only safe place, unless you wanted a little extra protein with your bread

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In humid climes, it goes in the fridge since it will get moldy otherwise. Also if there's only one person eating off of a single loaf. That's too much bread for one person to consume before it goes bad on the counter.

In less humid or drier climes, you can keep it out of the fridge until it goes stale or everyone eats it ;)

However, refrigerating bread does cause it to go stale faster but that is not the case with freezing it.

I'm too cheap to throw halves of loaves away :blush: I make sure to use it before it dries out usually.

keep it anyway. You have to use stale bread to make bread pudding :9

What I do with it is give it to the birds and squirrels. Bread pudding sounds delish though :9

I had to start mulching because I can't even stand throwing peels and seeds away.

The mice will eat it. Such is life in NYC.

Harold McGee is the author of the book "Food and Science." He says the best way to preserve bread runs counter to our expectations.

"It turns out that the staling process, which involves a change in the structure of the starch in the bread dough, happens at a much faster rate at temperatures right around refrigerator temperatures. So in fact, if you want to keep bread edible for a few days, the best thing to do for it is just to keep it at room temperature. It'll actually stale much more slowly at room temperature than it will in the refrigerator, which we normally think of as a place to make things last longer. If you want to keep bread for more than just a few days, the best thing to do is to freeze it, because the temperature of the bread passes through refrigerator temperature pretty quickly on its way to getting completely frozen. And so it spends relatively little time in that critical temperature range and doesnt stale as badly."

It has it's own little space on the second shelf of my fridge.

Do they keep tomatoes in there too?

Lordy me, you must live in the north pole or something. Guess what, I keep potatoes there too.

Eeeek, I would never put a home grown or local tomato in the fridge. The ones that come from Mexico or S/A have already been fridged and ruined.

And if we're not gonna use it very quickly it goes in the freezer.

i cannot eat bread once it has been in the fridge, my parents thought i was strange because they never "got it," well they're old now and when i visit...they may have learned to quaff a glass of red wine before dinner, they may have learned to eat cheese, but they STILL have bread in the fridge

the horror the horror

are your friends over 70? i thought we younger kids didn't do this :-)

i'm amazed at all the people on this thread who never heard of breadboxes, why buy bread if you're going to put it in the fridge since it will taste nasty anyway? and many southern homes these days have this thing called air conditioning, inside the kitchen is not humid!

old trick from the 1970s, if you couldn't afford a breadbox, scour and paint a recycled metal mailbox -- put the flag up if you need to buy more bread -- never actually did this myself but thought it looked cute

or you'll be eating a mold sandwich for dinner :puke:

it keeps the bread fresh. Dont be insane. Only an insane person would not put bread in the fridge. I cannot say enough about this. If you want moldy bread you go ahead, but do not spread your bread hate here on DU.

That is all I have to say about the subject.

It helps fight mold and dry-out.

The bread, rice, pasta, and potatoes all have their own drawers under the counter.

All fruits and veggies except greens and berries go on the counter.

This is the natural order of things.