Novice breadmaker owner question....whats the best way to store your freshly baked offerings?

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What is the best way to store the bread to keep it fresh and stop it from drying out? Air-tight container? Tin foil? Plastic bag?

Or has someone like Lakeland solved the problem and invented a storage gadget specifically for this purpose?

lol -I had a feeling that Lakeland would have something. Thanks.

Mine does do cakes -in fact I made aa apple and walnut cake this morning before I even made any bread !

I looove Lakeland.

They sell the type of holey bags you get bread in from the supermarket (very good). I just pop loaves into a freezer bag (don't tie the top just leave it open) and pop it into the bread bag (like a little drawstring bag that rustles when you squeeze it so it seems to have some plastic in it) I got on holiday in Italy.

Are these any good for homemade bread?

our loaves only last for 24-hours MAX (eaten) but lakeland do this which is ace as I am crap at slicing home-made bread

Well done, I've been meaning to ask this for a while.

I'm crap at slicing it too.

I forsee lots of muttering under breath from DP when he tries to slice bread after I've attacked it.

I made a loaf that came out of the breadmaker 1 1/2hrs ago - it's all gone now!! (1 adult, 2 children, 1 toddler!!)

I've never had the issue of homemade bread going stale

I resorted to drastic measures to combat my crap slicing - I bought an electric meat slicer and use that

My dad uses a bread bag, it is great for camping aswell as packs small when not in use. I can recomend the bag, took homemade bread away in bag in the summer and it was fine for toasting after 5 days (that was when we used the last of the two loaves we had taken away.

I use a terracota pot with lid for my bread at home and it lasts fine (if you put the bread in to soon you get condensation and then mould, so be careful to put bread in when cool.

similar bread bin These are £55 on amazon woooh!

I make bread for pack lunch and just make a pound loaf which will cover three packed lunches and useually lasts two - three days in this house.

You can actually get a bread keeper from Lakeland, costs about £10.00, is made of plastic and is loaf shaped. It has small airvents to stop the bread "sweating". I find it works very well. A friend recommended it to me when she found out I was getting a breadmaker.

Have a Lakeland drawstring bread bag - cotton outside, polythene inside. Do they still do them? We are usually good for a couple of days (wholemeal loaf) if it lasts that long before being eaten.

A little skimmed milk powder adds to the shelf life of the bread, some people claim you can taste it but I don't really notice.

It's either This one or Betterware equivalent, can't remember now.