{"id":3224,"date":"2009-02-03T08:25:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2009-02-03T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T16:20:09","slug":"tt-freeze-bread-for-longer-shelf-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/02\/tt-freeze-bread-for-longer-shelf-life\/","title":{"rendered":"TT: Freeze bread for longer shelf life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I grew up in a household where bread was stored in the freezer to keep it fresh.\u00a0 Bread was put out for every meal along with some butter.\u00a0 Sometimes it was just a few slices of white sandwich bread, but it was out there because you had to have bread with every meal.\u00a0 That was how my parents rolled.\u00a0 And because of that we had a lot of bread, so to keep it from going bad it was stored in the freezer.<\/p>\n

It never occurred to me that other people didn’t do this as well until I went to college and then the looks of “that’s so weird” were thrown my way.\u00a0 I kept the fact that we also stored potato chips in the freezer as well to myself.\u00a0 Because if bread in the freezer is weird then potato chips in the freezer must be some sort of catastrophe.\u00a0 However, I will tell you that a cold sour cream and onion chip is divine, especially in the summer.\u00a0 But we’re talking about bread here so I’ll stick with that.<\/p>\n

When Scott and I moved in together, I kept the bread-in-the-freezer tradition going.\u00a0 I like having bread in the house for whenever, but we don’t eat enough bread to justify leaving it out on the counter.\u00a0 I knew it would spoil quickly and I’m not trying to toss out some perfectly good food.\u00a0 Interestingly enough, Scott never gave me the stink eye for bread in the freezer but then he doesn’t give the stink eye about much really.<\/p>\n

And bread stored in the freezer is what I’ve done the entire time we’ve lived together.\u00a0 It’s the perfect solution for having bread on hand and keeping it fresh.\u00a0 I can just pull out what I need from the freezer, maybe just a slice or four.\u00a0 I don’t have to pull out the whole loaf and allow it to thaw, only what I need.\u00a0 Sometimes I have to give it a quick nuke (10-15 seconds) before using it, but that’s seriously not a big deal at all.\u00a0 Using this method allows me to purchase bread in bulk when it’s on sale or if we have a coupon.\u00a0 On the occasion that I buy an unsliced loaf of bread, I’ll slice it up first and then stick it in a freezer bag and in the freezer it goes.<\/p>\n

I do this with pizza dough as well.\u00a0 When I’m at Whole Foods, I sometimes will buy several of their ready made doughs and just stick them in the freezer when I get home.\u00a0 Then I have dough whenever I need it. :D<\/p>\n

If this isn’t something you currently do, give it a try and see if it helps extend the shelf life of your bread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I grew up in a household where bread was stored in the freezer to keep it fresh.\u00a0 Bread was put out for every meal along with some butter.\u00a0 Sometimes it was just a few slices of white sandwich bread, but it was out there because you had to have bread with every meal.\u00a0 That was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-Q0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}