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[-] [email protected] 289 points 1 week ago

I live in a humid climate (especially in the summer), and if we don't refrigerate our bread and tortillas, or any baked goods, they get moldy in like 4 days.

[-] [email protected] 125 points 1 week ago

Have you tried freezing it?

Refrigerating baked goods accelerates staleness, but most baked goods freeze well.

[-] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago

Frozen bread or bust. No one's wants that cardboard you kept in the fridge.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago

I’ve had bread in the freezer for months, I throw it straight in the toaster and it comes out like, well… normal ass toast.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Good to know, I recently started getting bread from a local bakery but it doesn't last, I'll have to try freezing it next time

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Make sure you cut it first if it’s not sliced, it’s a lot easier to deal with before you freeze it

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Oh my god, yes. Otherwise you have a blunt force trauma weapon

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Like a poor man's dwarf bread. If only we knew the real recipe.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Freeze it every time.

If you're anything less than a family of four, leaving bread at room temperature is just eating half a loaf of bread and then throwing away half a loaf of mouldy bread.

Most supermarket bread has indeed already been frozen before you get it.

I even freeze all the cakes from Costco, since they only seem to come in packs of about a thousand.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

In my area it's common to buy bread daily

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Only exception for me is tortillas. I mean they technically freeze well, but they will also stick together which would make quite a thick burrito.

My parents always freeze them and I always forget until I'm there trying to make a burrito and it tears in half.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

yup. tortillas go in the fridge so you can get individual ones easily. Staleness never really bothered me, but i do warm them up on the stove to improve malleability. And i like to get my burritos a little crispy on the outside to help seal the final fold. Now i want burritos...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I freeze tortillas, one trick to using them after they thaw is rolling the whole package a couple of times both ways.

Still have to be careful separating them, but it's no worse than a package of tortilla that has sat underneath too much weight for too long.

This trick also works with tortillas that sat underneath too much weight for too long

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Chuck them in the microwave or better yet put baking paper (which if i recall correctly you usians call wax paper or parchment paper) in between each tortilla before you freeze it to keep them seperate

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

This is the way. It's all I do.

If I'm going to use the bread in the next couple days? I'll keep it out. Otherwise, I put all my baked goods/bread in the freezer, and extra freezer I bought. Keeps for months. 6+ months if you're lucky and willing to deal with it being overly dry.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yes, we freeze some as well

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

people are downvoting a scientifically verifiable statment.

owning the bread chillers

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

Likewise. I enjoy my bread lasting more than four days.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

Same. I don't get why people act like putting bread in the fridge is world ending. Unless your eating a whole loaf of bread in 2 days in the fridge it goes.

That or you get a loaf of mold on the 4th day.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I refrigerate my bread, english muffins, and tortillas too!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I had air conditioning growing up and my family tends to make desserts more in the winter.

The first summer living on my own, I made a beautiful blueberry pie, and the next morning I took it out of the microwave (to keep bugs away during the night- I have since learned this was also an idiosyncrasy from my parents. Most people just cover it) and it was already visibly moldy.

I’m glad I got a slice the first day, and I definitely learned a lesson but holy shit was it a surprise.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I too grew up in a humid environment and got used to using either a bread box or the fridge.

Then I realized that our bread was just cheap sugar infused garbage, and that if you pay a bit more for better bread, it does not mold anywhere nearly as quickly.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Same. In the winter here, bread can last two weeks, but in the summer it'll mold in a day or two.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's legit. Not really in Canada though.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I had 65% last weekend and since then constantly a bit above 50% in Switzerland. Usually around 30% unless it's summer. How much is "humid" for you?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Humidity where I live right now is 81%. And we're having a "dry spell".

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

We get 90% every day here in Florida

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

There were mushrooms the size of dinner plates in my back yard the other day. I was mortified.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

52%, rainy-sunny mix. This season is incredibly wet.

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