How to preserve fresh bread

When you go to a bakery, you often see a wide variety of breads and always want to buy a few flavors to eat. However, bread is high in calories and you can’t eat much at one time, so you can only store the remaining bread. If it is not stored properly, it will easily become soft and even affect the taste. Here are some correct ways to store fresh bread.

1. Room temperature storage method

Put fresh bread into a food-grade plastic bag and tie the bag tightly. It can be stored at room temperature for about two days. As long as it is eaten within two days, the freshness of the bread will not be greatly affected.

If you bake the bread at home, when it cools down to the same temperature as your palm after it comes out of the oven, you can put it in a plastic bag, tie it up, and store it at room temperature.

How to store bread so it doesn't get hard? Here's the correct way to store bread

A better way is to put a little green leafy vegetables such as celery, cabbage or lettuce in the plastic bag. The vegetables can adjust the humidity in the bag just right, thus keeping the bread fresh.

2. Cryopreservation

The best way to preserve bread is to put it in the freezer of the refrigerator, because freezing can lock in the deliciousness of the bread to the greatest extent, and it can be used for both short-term or long-term storage. However, there are some tips for preserving bread by freezing. You should never put a large piece of bread directly into the freezer, because it is difficult to reheat a large piece of frozen bread and it will not taste very good.

The correct way to preserve bread by freezing is to cut the bread into slices, put them into a food-grade plastic bag, squeeze out the air in the bag, tie the bag tightly, and then put it in the freezer. This method of storing bread can keep it for a long time. When you want to eat it, just take it out and let it thaw naturally. It is safer to heat it in a microwave.

How to store bread so it doesn't get hard? Here's the correct way to store bread

3. Refrigerated Storage Method

Some people like to put bread directly into the refrigerator, which actually makes the bread harder and older more easily, and also makes it easier for the bread to breed more bacteria.

The best temperature for short-term storage of bread is between 21 and 35 degrees. Temperatures higher or lower than this range will affect the color and aroma of the bread, and will also speed up the hardening of the bread. The temperature in the refrigerator's freezer is about 2 to 6 degrees, which is obviously not suitable for storing bread.

In addition, all fermented wheat flour products tend to breed more bacteria when refrigerated, and are therefore not suitable for refrigerated storage.

How to store bread so it doesn't get hard? Here's the correct way to store bread

If you are not very demanding about bread, and the storage time is not too long, only about 3 to 5 days, you can also use the refrigerator to store bread, but it is also wrong to put it directly into the refrigerator. There are two correct ways to do it:

1. Seal the bread with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator. The bread stored in this way will be a little hard when it is just taken out, but it will soften naturally after being placed at room temperature for about half an hour, and the original flavor of the bread can be basically maintained.

2. Put the bread in a food-grade plastic bag, add a little green leafy vegetables such as celery, cabbage or lettuce, tie the bag tightly and refrigerate. This way, the bread will stay fresher.

The above two methods are effective for preserving bread for a short period of time, but for safety reasons, it is best to reheat it in a microwave before eating, because more bacteria are more likely to grow at this temperature.