Where to keep all this home made bread ...

Lucie_2

Galtizz wrote:

A bit like TK max.

From what I can gather they sell a lot of ex-catalogue & surplus stock. Always bargains to be found - once you rifle through the tat.
Sells more household stuff than TK Maxx.

Daisy

Does anyone have or even has anyone heard of bread bags? I found this in the Lakeland catalogue. I wonder if they work?

http://www.lakelandlimited.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/GBP/ParametricSearch-Start;sid=a2yLXNr6y2tfR5h6FRiHWnI61tmeLj1WPVI=?search_typecode=2&search_typecode=4&search_typecode=10&search_typecode=16&search_online=true&search_category_recursive=true&search_attribute_refno=SKU&sort_attribute_1=product_name&sort_direction_1=ascending&search_precision_refno=0&search_query_refno=1307

It says that after one week, fresh bread will taste just as good as on the day it was baked.

squeaky

They look like they'd be a pain to get all the crumbs out of and keep clean though.

Js_Other_Half

squeaky wrote:

They look like they'd be a pain to get all the crumbs out of and keep clean though.

You just turn the bag inside out and shake out the crumbs - they can also be machine washed. We find they do keep the bread softer - but at the expense of the hard crust which also become soft.

squeaky

I'll just stick to keeping bread in my fridge then

[Deleted User]

Or freeze yr bread pre-sliced and just take out what you need for each day, or as you go. Saves me lots of mouldy bread cos i eat quite a bit at work and never know from meal to meal where i 'll be.

Daisy

Js_Other_Half wrote:

We find they do keep the bread softer - but at the expense of the hard crust which also become soft.

I prefer a soft crust actually so it sounds ideal. I keep my bread in the fridge at the mo but it goes hard after a few days (home made bread anyway).

Becles

I've got one of these from Lakeland:

http://www.lakelandlimited.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/GBP/DisplayProductInformation-Start;sid=qap8VgmbCa2VfUsbBvlwUKFbYqbxiu43_5Q=?ProductID=tWHCy5OSu5EAAADjLUuEgEQP

It's really good at keeping the fresh. The crust does soften a little, but not as much as keeping it in a plastic bag or the fridge.

It also comes with a slicing guide which is useful if you are like me and start off with a nice thin slice that ends up an inch thick by the time you get to the bottom

Curry_Queen

Becles wrote:

I've got one of these from Lakeland:

http://www.lakelandlimited.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/GBP/DisplayProductInformation-Start;sid=qap8VgmbCa2VfUsbBvlwUKFbYqbxiu43_5Q=?ProductID=tWHCy5OSu5EAAADjLUuEgEQP

It's really good at keeping the fresh. The crust does soften a little, but not as much as keeping it in a plastic bag or the fridge.

It also comes with a slicing guide which is useful if you are like me and start off with a nice thin slice that ends up an inch thick by the time you get to the bottom

That looks ideal, thanks! ... and yes I suffer the wonky knife syndrome too

spendaholic

Okay, I've just started off my first new loaf of bread in the breadmaker under the new regime.

Whenever I've stored crusty bread before, the crust isn't crusty after less than a day. I have a bread crock (and yes, it matches my other storage containers too), but I never know whether to put the loaf in there neat, in a plastic bag, a paper bag, or a greased proof bag.

I was going to post a new thread for this, then realised that there must be one existing already. So I stopped being lazy and looked.

:A