I have never in my entire life seen an actual bread box, I thought they were a thing from England or something
My grandma used one. Personally I think the real function was to keep mice from eating your bread, but that hasn’t been a problem for a long time.
They serve to keep bread at a cool, constant temperature, keep the mice away, and help keep the bread from going stale.
To be fair, you originally said, “the real reason,” but have just listed three different equal reasons.
Bread can’t go stale if the mice keep eating it. There’s an order of operations here.
I don’t know that I agree that breadboxes were solely used in times/cases where the risk of mice getting to the bread was present but I get your reasoning.
As with many things it starts for one reason, then a different benefit comes up, becomes a norm just because, then peters out.
How else to store real bread?
So not just the sandwich/toast bread, that comes in plastic bags, but real bread, with a crust and in plastic wrap it would lose its crust, but without any protection, it dries out.
It’s a delicate balance act, where paper and a bread box seem to work bestI think most people just leave it in the plastic bag, but personally I have a bread bag that breathes so the crust doesn’t become spongey
They’re pretty common here in Sweden, at least in my experience.
English here. Anyone I know with a bread box use it in combination with one of the others. I have one, so we’re Bread Box + Twist and Tuck.
Twist and tuck all day erre’day
All day until I started steady living with a woman. The twist tie or whatever must be attached at all times.
Many years later we got a cheap plastic bread box and I gotta say it’s awesome. You can twist and tuck and the bread stays good even longer.
The box being “good” is wild. That is where bread goes stale unseen and uneaten. Its gotta be near the top of pointless kitchen things that only people with more money then sense have.
What in the world is the bottle hack
Cutting off the top of a bottle and jamming the bag through the lid to seal it.
That sounds chaotic evil to me tbh
You cut the head off a bottle so you have the screwy-bit. Then you pull the open end through the bottle-Head and screw the lid on.
Hmmmmmmmmmm microplastics in my bread
TBF those are already in there. They’re in the water supply!
Wouldn’t want to get those inside its plastic bag
Bread that’s in a plastic bag lol
I do not think you are ripping apart the plastic bag everytime. The joke is on everyone else, ours come in paper bags and you cut it with a machine.
I twist and fold inside out:
I learned how to do this and never went back.
Always eat the entire loaf in one sitting.
I do both lawful neutral and chaotic neutral at once. Am I paranoid?
I feel like this alignment chart doesn’t consider how evil you could get. Leaving the bag open seems pretty tame for CE. I suggest the following:
- Lawful Good: bread box w/ the bag
- Neutral Good: bag clip
- Chaotic Good: twist and tuck
- Lawful Neutral: bread box w/o the bag
- True Neutral: original bread clip
- Chaotic Neutral: twist or tuck, not both
- Lawful Evil: bag is tied shut
- Neutral Evil: bag is left open
- Chaotic Evil: bag is torn open in the middle
Chaotic evil: bread is tossed directly into the cupboard.
Chaotic evil: bread is kept on the floor.
Chaotic stupid: bread is stapled to various trees
Lawful evil: Bag is vacuum sealed every time after using.
I’m just saying twist and tuck is the best because it seals well enough and it’s fast and requires no additional equipment. If you have a breadbox that’s peak convenience, but I’ve only seen one family that had one ever, and they had the counter space for it.
Also worth noting: a bread box generally isn’t sealed that well, I would still recommend keeping the bread in a bag (depending on what type it is and how quickly you plan to eat it).
We have a bread box but keep the bread in the bag inside the box.
Better put the bread box in the cupboard, just to be on the safe side.
Might do.
Pros and cons of breadbox? Any paladins out there willing to enlighten us?
Had one, hated it, forget the bread was in there* and it doesn’t have some sort of magical bread preservation properties, it’s just a spot taking up counter space to hold a plastic bag.
* (I recognize this is my specific problem but it’s on the list of why it doesn’t work for me)
Same here though, the bread turns to a brick of mold way before even getting close to the end.
The refrigerator might change the bread properties but at least it isn’t ruined in two days.
Yeah I don’t wanna exaggerate but it was nearly the worst environment I could think of to just leave bread in. If you had a party or a brunch or something and didn’t want the bread sitting out, sure, but for having in there for a week and a half unmonitored, we’ve been taken for absolute fools. :)
The fridge is the worst place. Try the freezer.
When it’s more than one the others get frozen, I overbuy when it’s on sale.
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We got one like a year ago and I love it. Cheap plastic thing. It’s airtight. No more arguments about me not using that useless bread tie and the bread lasts longer.
I have one. We still use the plastic bags, but just needed a place to put it that wasn’t “out.”
I got mine on the side of the road. Sanded it down and painted it up.
I love it. Bread goes in. Stays fresh.
Yes, my family uses it to store spatulas.
Breadbox should be chaotic side
Twist and tuck has never let me down
Reuse clip or twist and tuck are the only appropriate methods.
Maybe it depends on climate, but bread left out where I am gets moldy way before it gets stale. The best solution is to keep it in the freezer (in a bag, and any of those methods but CE would probably be fine). Weeks later, the bread is still soft and send fresh. Bread thaws unbelievably fast. If I’m making a sandwich, I take two slices out and put them on a plate separated. Usually by the time I’ve got the other ingredients ready to go, the bread is thawed. If you’re toasting the bread, it can go straight from freezer to toaster. If you’re making sandwiches to take to work or school, you can just make them on the frozen bread.
