Please settle a furious family argument....

[TheValeyard]

...do you keep bread in the fridge?

I used to make my own bread, and experimented with different types of flour & adding bits of tomato etc. I found a 50/50 ratio of Granary & ordinary flour was lovely! But home made bread goes off even more quickly... Once I forgot to add butter to the mix & ended up with a new type of superglue...

Nope

Homemade bread goes stale quickly because it's not full of crap like store bought shite. Any bread that lasts longer than two days before going mouldy isn't fit to be eaten.

Sometimes I do if we have a lot and I don’t think it will be eaten before it goes green!

@PrettyLittleFlies

Homemade bread goes stale quickly because it's not full of crap like store bought shite. Any bread that lasts longer than two days before going mouldy isn't fit to be eaten.

My home-made bread never went mouldy, but it used to dry out pretty quickly, within about 3 days.

To be fair, homemade bread never lasts longer than. couple of hours round here, gets wolfed down 😂

My attempts at homemade bread always turn into bricks...I've no idea what I'm doing wrong, countless recipes...

I do make a nice sandwich tho.....just not with my bread, which would possibly make a nice house 🤔

Absolutely no.

No, why would anyone do this?

Do whatever you like with bread but if you keep chocolate in the fridge you are beneath contempt

As someone who works in the bread industry it absolutely does not go in the fridge.

Bread should go in a bread bin or larder/pantry (cool and dark), but never the fridge.

Mmmmm I love an icy cold Twirl. Not all choc goes in the fridge though.

Nope, that’s what the bread bin is for 🤷‍♀️

@Frazzledd

My attempts at homemade bread always turn into bricks...I've no idea what I'm doing wrong, countless recipes...

I do make a nice sandwich tho.....just not with my bread, which would possibly make a nice house 🤔

It sounds as though you're not letting it rise properly. Do you have a warm place to let it rise? I used to use my boiler cupboard. Then you've got to punch the dough, knead it again & let it rise again...

No. Usually, I store it where it came from in the supermarket so if I bought it off the shelf from Tesco it goes in the cupboard at home (e.g. bread) whereas if it came from the fridge in Tesco it goes in the fridge at home (e.g. fresh pasta). I only put them in the fridge after opening if the pack says to do so.

@Wannabegreenfingers

As someone who works in the bread industry it absolutely does not go in the fridge.

Bread should go in a bread bin or larder/pantry (cool and dark), but never the fridge.

But who'se got space for a bread bin, let alone a pantry or larder these days? On the other hand, our fridges have got bigger...

No.

Just to change it up a bit, chilling and freezing toughen up the gluten in bread making it harder to digest, even after it has been thawed, warmed up or toasted.

I get heartburn from defrosted bread.

I don't know what people are talking about who live in a hot climate, because I do do - 42 degrees here today in a heatwave - and we don't put bread in the fridge and it keeps fine. Don't know what they put in Spanish loaves of bread, but they keep for a really long time. Baguette doesn't, but it doesn't in any country. You have to eat it on day 1 or toast it the next day. By day 3/4 it can be used as a murder weapon!!

@expatinspain

I don't know what people are talking about who live in a hot climate, because I do do - 42 degrees here today in a heatwave - and we don't put bread in the fridge and it keeps fine. Don't know what they put in Spanish loaves of bread, but they keep for a really long time. Baguette doesn't, but it doesn't in any country. You have to eat it on day 1 or toast it the next day. By day 3/4 it can be used as a murder weapon!!

Like Fiona Brewer's loaf in About a Boy, which Marcus threw at a duck & killed it!

Oil.

No - it also makes any water etc in the fridge taste of bread

But who'se got space for a bread bin, let alone a pantry or larder these days? On the other hand, our fridges have got bigger...

The people I know with tiny kitchens manage to find space for a bread bin on the counter.

And the people I know with tiny kitchens don't generally have massive fridges. Only the people with big kitchens tend to have big fridges.

It would be a weird world if people managed to fit a massive fridge in their kitchen but not a bread bin.

It would be a weird world if people managed to fit a massive fridge in their kitchen but not a bread bin That's my kitchen 😂 The space for the fridge was already there, so we didn't design it that way. I guess we could have a bread bin if we didn't have a microwave, but need one of them, so there's genuinely no space.

@BeenAsFarAsMercyAndGrand

But who'se got space for a bread bin, let alone a pantry or larder these days? On the other hand, our fridges have got bigger...

The people I know with tiny kitchens manage to find space for a bread bin on the counter.

And the people I know with tiny kitchens don't generally have massive fridges. Only the people with big kitchens tend to have big fridges.

It would be a weird world if people managed to fit a massive fridge in their kitchen but not a bread bin.

I said upthread that I used to keep my bread in the fridge as a student - I had one cupboard (for food and crockery, pans etc so pretty full) and one shelf in the fridge and it was ok to fit a small loaf down one side. Having a bread bin would have been a bit OTT since the reason I kept it in the fridge was that I didn’t eat it quickly enough and keeping it on the side would probably have also led to extra slices going missing since it would have been in the sight line of drunk people