Bread storage

[Qwerty]

How do you all store your bread I have had 2 bread bins all my married life a chrome one and when we had a new kitchen put in we got a pine one, but this last few yrs we have no bread on the go so to speak as I always ended up throwing half a loaf out or bread cakes became dry quickly. Now we freeze all bread and get out when we need it, we are not massive bread eaters but now and again we get caught out when visitors call and we have to defrost bread quickly in the microwave so what do you all do?

[Libra Gran]

Same as you really Qwerty, we are not great bread eaters . We split loaves or rolls and freeze, taking out just what we need. I have a bread bin, but only keep crackers or ryvita in there.

[Daisy]

I've got a small cupboard in the kitchen which just happens to be below the bit of the counter top where the toaster lives. So I wrap the bread in a poly bag and keep it as airtight as possible. Home made bread lasts the best part of a week with care - but our kitchen is quite cool.

[Oma]

We tend to just buy bread rolls or a small uncut each day unless Brian has made some , we got tired of throwing half loafs away, I just have a little basket I keep in the cupboard and put it in there , but I also keep part baked rolls in the freezer for emergency they bake in 10 mins I did have a bread bin but it got used for everything but bread

[Nanto2girls]

I keep bread and rolls in the freezer. I just take a few slices or a couple of rolls at a time out. I leave it on the worktop in polythene bag until it's thawed, then put it in the kitchen cupboard.

[ZIZI]

I buy fresh bread weekly from the baker. We rarely throw bread away as husband takes sandwiches sometimes and if we can not be bothered to cook or one of us is working late or out somewhere we will have cheese or beans on toast. I have ceramic bread keeper. It looks nice, it cost a lot of money but I am not actually certain that it keeps bread any fresher than an ordinary bread bin despite the claims. Sometimes I will seal a few slices and freeze them but then I usually forget about them.

[Bizzy Lizzy]

Large cut Sainsbury's fresh baked wholemeal kept in the fridge. We eat a lot of bread. I love wholemeal toast with Marmite and peanut butter and DH has toast. It is usually warm when we get it and irritable. We have a large rookery in the woods at the bottom of our garden and the rooks get any stale crusts.

[Grauntie Mag]

I freeze mine which is gluten free as I only eat 1 slice a day and OH keeps his in the fridge but he likes 'Best of Both'. Revolting stuff.😖

[Avo]

We have our bread delivered, every other day, from our village shop. We keep it in the bread bin which is enamel. It keeps it nice and fresh.

[Plantaholic]

Don't eat a lot of bread, I buy a cut whole meal loaf from the local deli, freeze it and take out what I need. Otherwise I keep It wrapped in the fridge

[Sum1Ls]

We bake bread two or three times a week, store spare loaves in the freezer, and, on the rare occasions that there is any left, slice it and store in the freezer. Like Oma's OH we bake a whole variety of breads with different flour mixtures and the addition of seeds or oats or rye. We also make olive and rosemary, tomato, walnut and onion bread. We've been doing this since the bakers' strike in 1979 and now have it down to a fine art. The only downside is that we can't stand commercial bread. I think Brian and us are soul mates. (We make his German recipe often too)

[Plantaholic]

Sounds lovely Sum1Ls,

[Oma]

Oh we love his Bri Bread (Rye) also Rosemary and Cranberry , Onion , Sun dried Tomato and anything with seeds of all sorts in

[Plantaholic]

I am not very good at breadmaking and it is not the same in a breadmaker.

[Daisy]

Plant - I'd agree with you about hand made and machine made being different - but in my case the machine-baked is far, far better! I would set aside the time to make it by hand, but it's easy to fling the ingredients in the break maker and let it do the hard work. Like Sum1Ls, we can't stand the commercial Chorleywood stuff now.