What do you keep your home made bread in?

[Totallyterrific]

Following on from having made your wonderful home made bread........... what do you store it in to keep it fresh for as long as possible. We are only a 2 person household so we dont get through bread very quickly. The very basic cotton bag we currently have doesnt keep it fresh for more than a day really.
Ive investigated the bread bags that Lakeland sell but they appear to be a plastic bag inside a cotton bag? which isnt very appealing.
Anyone tried any of these from Peace with the wild?
Peace With The Wild | Eco Friendly & Plastic Free Products
Any other suggestions?

Thankyou!

Slice it before you put it in the bag, then freeze it.

Exactly as @FormerlyPathologicallyHappy said. You have to slice and freeze as soon as it's cooled down because it won't keep like shop bought bread because of the absence of preservatives. I cut my loaves into about 12-13 slices and put 6-7 sliced in each plastic bag. I've been making all our bread in a Panasonic breadmaker for about 3 years - we never waste any of it.

Slice and freeze........ I didnt know thats what people usually do, ta.
What if you just want a few bits (half a loaf maybe) not in the freezer......... what do you store it in then?

Beeswax wrap - my DD doesn't eat sourdough so I've tried a few things and this seems to work best to keep it fresh for longer.

I use the sort of bags that OP posted. I bought a couple from Amazon, but now I've picked up a sewing bus and bought some linen to make some. I have four and wash and iron them frequently. Ironing not essential, but I think it kills spores etc.

I have a bread bin, but the bags stop the bread drying out and keep bin crumb free.

I just wrap it in a clean tea towel.

My parents use something like this for theirs - a sort of expandable bread box. It doesn’t have the slicey bit, it’s more simple than that, but along these lines. Seems to work fine and keep their Panasonic homemade bread fresh.

KitchenCraft Stay Fresh Bread Bin, Large Bread Bin with Bread Slicer Guide, In Gift Box, Large, Plastic https://amzn.eu/d/0KCanVU

Also, and this may be stating the obvious, make the smaller loaves. Less to go to waste!

@Talipesmum lol re making smaller loaves! You are so right about that.

Ive tried wrapping in a tea towel or a very basic cloth bag...........leads to stale bread far too quickly........... hence why Im posting here.

We've got one of these (similar to the Kitchen Craft one posted above).

The slicing guide was rubbish, but otherwise our bread stays pretty fresh in this.

https://www.lakeland.co.uk/5052/bread-keeper

Bread defrosts quickly so I don’t keep any out. There’s no preservatives in it so it goes off quickly.

Ive got an aluminium defrosting tray off amazon, they cost about £10 but food defrosts so fast on them. I use it for rapidly cooling batch cooked meals too.

Makes you appreciate how hard people had it years ago with no fridges and no preservatives.

Tupperware...but from the other replies I'm guessing this is wrong!

I've made home made bread for years, and we would just keep it in whatever sized container we had that fitted. I've kept it in the silicone loaf tin it was cooked in, in waxed wraps, in tupperware type containers, in paper bags, so many different ways.

But if you are making bread and it is going bad before you use it, make smaller loaves.

I find that putting it into a plastic container once it is out of the oven, with a piecce of damp kitchen roll lets it cool down without the crust going solid and it usually stays in that same containter until it is gone.

We have a regular plastic storage box. We have a bit of an odd shaped area in the cupboard we keep bread in and I found a box which fits just right and is also tall enough for homemade bread. Our bread keeps for 3-4 days, but doesn’t normally last that long as it’s used for sandwiches and toast every day!

https://www.birdkitchenclothing.co.uk/products/the-artisan-denim-bread-bag

I have a few of these which I love.