How to you store home made bread?

[Gemini]

Those of you (or your OHs) wh0 make bread, where do you keep it?

Over the years we have tried a big Tupperware type box, wrapping in foil, or a clean tea towel. I read that linen bread bags are good.

I just wondered what other people did.

[Oma]

We tend to wrap ours in a paper bread bag,
I always take a extra bag when we are in Lidl for when we have home made bread then put it in a basket in the cupboard .
Or a bread packet from shop bought bread,
I tend to. Roll the top so as much air as possible is out.

To be fair not a lot of homemade bread is left in our house 😁

[Daisy]

I've thought about getting some of those fabric bread bags which are supposed to keep bread fresh for longer. However, what I've found is that the easiest way to stop it going mouldy it to make sure we never touch it with our hands, no matter how clean and scrubbed they are.

So I tip the loaf out of the bread maker pan onto a wire rack to cool, then put a large polybag over it and twist the end round to keep out as much air as possible. We then just slide out enough bread to slice and slide it back into the bag afterwards.

It starts to go stale after 4-5 days, but there's not usually much left then - it's ok for toast. I always make a 600g loaf so it needs to keep for a few days.

[Nanto2girls]

I don't make bread,but our bread lives in the freezer.
We just take out what we need as and when.
On another forum,i have read that they freeze home made bread.

[Lizzie48]

Nanto, that is what I used to do when I made bread, slice it and freeze it in.

[Grauntie Mag]

Me too, I slice it and freeze it.

[Sum1Ls]

If it doesn’t get eaten in 48 hours then in the freezer which keeps it well. We do have an old fashioned bread pantheon though for the loaf that is currently being eaten which keeps it very well.

[Daisy]

Sum1, I have to ask! What is a bread pantheon, please? I tried googling it but only found some kind of online game.

[Gemini]

I wondered also Daisy!

[Sum1Ls]

The curse of spell correct. It’s a bread pancheon. (And I see it’s been underlined here as it’s not recognised). It was my grandma’s and is a heavy, tall thick lidded pottery container for bread.

[Daisy]

Sum, many thanks for the explanation. I imagine it keeps bread in the dark and at an appropriate temperature to keep it fresh as long as possible. I always think it's a bit frightening that modern supermarket bread seems to keep for days, then you see the list of ingredients and wonder if it's bread at all.

I'm sure I could make good use of a pancheon and it would be a talking point in the kitchen.