AIBU to think bread bins are totally pointless?

[PrincessJenga]

DP is obsessed with getting a bread bin. He swears it will keep bread fresher than just putting it in the cupboard and that it's more convenient than my tactic of freezing every bread product that enters our home. I don't see the point. Surely they just take up space in the kitchen and make no difference to the bread itself? We can't agree so I said I'd put it to the MN jury.

Breadbin: waste of money or kitchen essential?

cutie - throw it on the floor with force, then wring your hand 'oh no I dropped the bread bin'

I was just trying to remember who it was who stored their kettle in a cupboard getorf and you kindly popped up with the answer...it was YOU!

getorf - I am going to try my best to drop it. Hate the thing, is massive on the work surface. I am totally with you on not having things out. I HATE the toaster with all its crumbs. I wish we could just not have one but failing that it should live in the cupboard. DH does not agree, he has toast every morning. I hate the smell of burnt toast too. Drives me nuts.

I have a lovely wooden braed box. It sits on top of my file cabinets, and holds spare enveelopes, stamps, address book and stationary
I tried to have it on my counter, and it did keep the bread fresher, but it took up so much space, and my kitchen is a tiny galley style
I bake my own bread, and it gets eaten quite quickly, so no stale issues.
It gets kept in the cupboard.

To clarify my original disdain for Tea/Coffee/Sugar cannisters; it does make sense to keep stuff in sealed jars or pots for freshness, it's just those matching sets with 'tea' 'coffee' 'sugar' that make me twitch - and those people often have mug trees too. Put mugs in the cupboard FFS!

We have always had a bread bin, but rarely use it because when we do, everybody forgets there's bread in there and it goes mouldy. We use a loaf a day, sometimes lasts 2 days.

After reading this, I've decided we need to throw it out

Yes I totally agree. With the OP. I haven't read anything else. They just eat bread. Once it goes in, it never comes out. The lid just means you put things on top and then end up putting new bread in the fridge. If you do use it, it ends up with a load of old nearly finished packets of bread and buns.

I have never heard anyone say this before. It didn't formalise as a thought in my head until I read your title. I heartily agree with you and commend it to the house.

"I am not having crap like that on the side."

tremendous

We have one - I'd love to tell you how useful it is and how fresh the bread stays in it, but being honest with 4 DCs the loaf rarely makes it into the bread bin to find out.
It's like owning a plague of locusts really feeding my children

The bread bin actually just sits in the corner looking pretty and providing one more surface to clean.

I LOVE 'commend it to the house'

I think MN should be parliament

cutie I threw my toaster in the neighbour's skip, I was sick of the bastarding thing vomiting crumbs on the side. We use the grill on the oven now, far better.

Just realise that the frustration will transfer to something else. I now have aneurisms at the crumbs in the butter dish.

Yes yes the fucking Tea Sugar Coffee labels on the jars, hate hate them. It is like labels for the stupid.

Grr at Tea Sugar Coffee Jars. Dont even get me started on mug trees.

I'll go to bed tonight and have nightmares about the Argos catalogue kitchen section.

at aneurisms at butter dish crumbs. I might be a bit compulsive, but take a deep breath GetOrf. Have a and then put your kettle in the cupboard.

Thinking of it that mug looks distinctly tannin-stained.

not a kitchen seesntial - ergonomically convenient in my kitchen - doesnt keep it fresher your dh is a mistaken nobber

Is true. That mug needs a good bleaching.

VirgoGrr My granny had Eternal Beau tea coffee sugar jars from Argos! She had almost the entire range, including the hostess trolley that was her pride and joy :)

She's really skint these days, I've told her to eBay all the EB, it fetches a good price apparently, it now has kitsch/retro appeal

I keep mine in the slow cooker..

Eternal beau fucking norah

Did EVERYONE who got married in the 80s have that on their wedding list?

custardo drunkenly, haven't seen you round for aaaaages

Well, theres certainly a lot of it on ebay, but not many bids. Think the 'kitsch' factor doesnt quite cover Eternal Beau just yet.

Agreed that mug is shameful, if it is not stained but meant to be full of tea then it is far too strong.

The bread bin is going tomorrow, next time mil will be visiting will be to see new baby so will be distracted from void on worksurface where bread bin used to reside. As for the toaster I am going to have to think through a strategy for removal.

I had an ex-BF's mother once who loved buying me 'things what clutter up your work surfaces'. Argos brings me out in a cold sweat to this day.

No lie, I once got presented with a ceramic duck with a hole in its back filled with wooden spoons, whisk etc.

Cutiecat, spot on - that tea is much too like builders.
I like mine around the shade of David Dickinson.

I gave up on breadbins after I kept forgetting the loaf was in there...sometimes for weeks on end.

I love a mner who talks about a strategy for toaster remval

You've obviously never had mice in your kitchen (crappy old house, not bad house keeping!). So from where I'm sitting YABU. Bread bins do have a place in the kitchen.