Despite changing eating habits, bread has remained the French people’s favorite food.
It accompanies dishes or serves as a base, making sandwich bread quick to prepare and eat. However, when stored outdoors, it quickly loses its softness, becomes stale, and dehydrates. If
you find it difficult to buy bread from the bakery every day and don’t want to waste food, here’s a tip for storing bread for more than two weeks.
White bread, whole-grain bread, rye bread… and of course, baguettes! There’s a bread variety to suit almost every need.
You can’t buy bread every day, but you want it to last longer. So you’ve opted for sliced and packaged bread, which offers nice square slices. And the problem still remains: In three or four days, when you’re halfway through the bread…
You have to throw it away! Mold has penetrated the crust and started attacking the crumb. You risk food poisoning. Don’t worry, here’s a tip to make it last up to two weeks, if not longer!
How do you keep bread as long as possible?
You’ve tried many methods to preserve your bread. Let’s start with the bread bin. Wrapping fresh bread in a cloth was easy, yet it doesn’t last more than three days. So you’ve tried freezing…
Thawed bread is moister, and within a few hours, the opposite is true: it dries out. You wanted to start baking homemade bread… Purchasing a new food processor wasn’t your main concern.
You’ve switched to sandwich bread—pre-packaged, sliced, and whole-grain. Now pay attention to the expiration date. It’s about six days… It’s possible to extend this short period even further.
Dehydration and mold growth disappear, and your bread will last longer
. To achieve this, you need to store your bread in the refrigerator. The low temperature limits the proliferation of bacteria. Storing the bread in a plastic bag will keep it soft. However, the moisture in the bread tends to condense on the plastic, which can lead to mold growth.
So take a pair of scissors and cut a few small holes at the top and bottom of the bag so the bread can breathe.
You’ll be surprised to find that your sliced bread lasts for more than two weeks! The same family-sized loaf will last longer, so you can keep it on hand for surprise visits or sleepovers…
How do you properly store bread and other foods in the refrigerator?
In a “statically cold” refrigerator, the proper preservation of food depends on choosing the right storage location.
Your bread doesn’t go in the “vegetable drawer,” where it’s over 6°C warm and humid. Nor does it go in the top zone, the “cooling zone,” where dairy products, cooked vegetables, cooked meat, and fish are stored.
Your packaged bread will keep particularly well in the intermediate zone, the so-called “cold zone,” between 0 and 4 °C. Store it in a ventilated refrigerator, wherever you prefer.
While cold limits the exponential growth of bacteria, this effect is only temporary. It’s important to establish certain rules in the refrigerator.
Raw meat: no longer than 24 hours! Egg preparations, too. Packaged cooked meat, opened cans of milk or cream: no longer than 3 days.
Store and consume your products in an orderly manner. Also, ensure they are properly packaged with cling film or special boxes.
Bread can be stored for more than two weeks in a plastic bag and refrigerated. To store it, place it in the “cold zone” of a clean and tidy refrigerator.
Not all breads have the same shelf life.
It’s important to note that white bread, country bread, and gluten-free bread have a shorter shelf life due to their composition.
This also applies to pre-sliced bread slices. They can be frozen for longer storage. To preserve your bread, we recommend storing it at a temperature between 14°C and 18°C.
