Crusty end slices of bread...

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...never get eaten in our household and languish in our fridge.

Any ideas what to do with them?
Hate the thought of throwing them away, such a waste of food.
We buy wholemeal (the mass produced kind, rather than artisan) and don’t own a food processor, if either makes a difference.

Not an AIBU but posting for traffic.

Thanks

Why not keep your bread in the fridge? It stops it going mouldy.

Don’t be so precious and just throw them away.

And Chat has just as much traffic as AIBU and would be more appropriate for your question.

Bleurgh at calling it a heel, it is the crust! I don’t mind it toasted, wouldn’t have as a sandwich. I don’t use breadcrumbs much but I might try that in future. In all honesty though, it normally gets thrown away, it is only two a week.

I don’t know why anyone would put bread in the fridge, I wouldn’t want to allocate the space for a start.

They don't taste that different to the rest of the bread.

Don’t be so precious and just throw them away

If not wanting to waste food is being precious then I am happy to continue being precious.

I keep bread in the fridge and use the ends for dipping in soup.

I wouldn’t want to allocate the space for a start
Fridge space is not an issue

Eggy bread, bread and butter pudding, breadcrumbs, bread pudding, Simon Hopkins bread salad ( though better with sour dough) , toast, fried bread in bacon fat.

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Don’t be so precious and just throw them away

If not wanting to waste food is being precious then I am happy to continue being precious.

If you don't want to waste them then just eat them. It's hard to turn them into something they are not.

As others have already said we freeze them and then use straight from the freezer for breadcrumbs but that's only if we haven't toasted them. We would only throw bread out if it was mouldy as we make our own and it's nice!

If you don't want to waste them then just eat them. It's hard to turn them into something they are not

Apparently not!

I would eat them toasted, make breadcrumbs, eat toasted with cream cheese or Nutella or jam, or make cheese on toast.

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Re: fridge - we don’t tend to have sandwiches, just toast a couple of times a week, so fridge is fine and stops the mould of the uneaten/never-to-be-eaten “heel” (never knew it was called that!)

From google: Never keep your bread in the fridge. The starch molecules in bread recrystallize very quickly at cool temperatures, and causes the bread to stale much faster when refrigerated. Shop-bought loaves should be kept in an air-tight plastic bag at room temperature rather than in the fridge.

Like many others, I just stick it in the freezer when I get home from the shop and then take out however many slices I want when I'm eating it and stick it in the toaster. Or if I am not toasting it, it takes about 10 minutes for the slices to defrost.

The two crusts are best eaten as a cheese toastie in my opinion. Especially if they are thicker than a regular slice.

Even mushed up they are still the end bit of bread

Why do you keep bread in the fridge? That's just weird!

Love a crust. More bang for your buck.

Feed to the birds. Breadcrumbs.

Sorry. Posted too soon.

The fridge speeds up the decay process. I thought everyone kept their bread in the microwave!

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Don’t be so precious and just throw them away

If not wanting to waste food is being precious then I am happy to continue being precious.

It’s two slices of bread 😂😂

You're all wrong.

It's called the NOBBY.

Best bit of any loaf, literally a bun fight growing up for who would get it.
My mum had an amazing shape shifting trick where she could get her whole hand down to the bottom nobby without disturbing the rest of the loaf.

I knew my DH and I were the perfect math because he hates the crusts which means I always get them. They are the best bit of the loaf. He also hates skin on custard and rice pudding which to me is madness.

match not math

I eat the crusts,usually as toast, If I have any of the artisan type bread,sometimes the crusts are a bit hard, so I break it up for the birds on the bird feeder. or eat it if I am having some soup.

It's the best bit of the loaf and it isn't a crust, end or heel. It's a nobby.

Ends here are for peanut butter. If you can't do that then feed to birds

I keep them in the fridge then every few days run up a batch of breadcrumbs, freeze them and use them frozen - I used some for lunch today to make fishcakes!