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Keeping bread in the fridge

  • 16-11-2011 09:11PM
    #1
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,430 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    How come most people don't do this?
    I used to do it in the States, when I had a massive fridge. I buy full loaves over here and they go off before I finish them so I started putting them in the fridge and easily get a few days extra out of them.

    Then I started wondering what put in that really doesn't need to be.
    Mustard, Eggs, Sun Dried Tomato jars etc.

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  • #2
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    If you put bread in the fridge it doesn't taste as nice.
    I dunno why, we'll need a scientician to answer that.

    You don't put eggs in the fridge!? :eek:


  • #3
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,777 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    I always heard that you either keep bread at room temperature, or freeze it - it goes staler if you keep it in the fridge.

    No idea if that's true or a housewife's tale / urban myth - but I abide by it!


  • #4
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Just buy half loaves.


  • #5
    John Doe1
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    You weirdo


  • #6
    Juicyfruit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 240 ✭✭Juicyfruit


    Would it not obsorb moisture in the fridge and make it taste horrible?


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  • #7
    Zebra3
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    Do it all the time.

    Never had any ill effects on the bread.


  • #8
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Do it all the time.

    Never had any ill effects on the bread.


    cold sandwiches?


  • #9
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    people freeze bread.


  • #10
    kfallon
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    What's next, milk in the washing machine???

    :P


  • #11
    stupidusername
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    I never realised people keep bread in the fridge :confused: wtf? it's air that makes bread stale, it being in the fridge won't make a difference.


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  • #12
    amacca
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    searching frantically for bread and/or fridge related pun


  • #13
    irish_stevo815
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    I don't do it myself, but think of it this way - you make a sandwich for school/work the night before and where do you put it? In the fridge!!!!

    So why not leave bread in the fridge?


  • #14
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,099 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    amacca wrote: »
    searching frantically for bread and/or fridge related pun

    By crumb old boy, this is a fridge too far this time!


  • #15
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,278 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    people freeze bread.

    Probably supermarkets before they change the sell-by date on the loaves.


  • #16
    mfdc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 304 ✭✭mfdc


    Because it makes the bread go stale.


  • #17
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,361 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I honestly throw out more bread than I eat.. wouldn't fancy keeping it in the fridge but it's high time someone invented some useless apparatus which claims to prolong the shelf life.

    It's all a conspiracy to make people buy more bread anyway.. just like how it's almost impossible to butter a slice on a cold morning.


  • #18
    Snowie
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    eggs should be kept at room temperature


  • #19
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    Bread in the States doesn't go off. Myself and my ex did an experiment...we had this ridiculous long-distance relationship for 2 and a half years...him in the States, me in Ireland and every time we visited, we'd bring the same piece of American toasted bread back and forth to each other. When we broke up 2 and a half years later, the bread was still edible and perfectly intact.

    Moral of the story, you were wasting your time putting that American "bread" in the fridge. Nothing goes off in that country. That's why their 16 year olds look like 30 years olds.


  • #20
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I stick bread in the freezer sometimes if somebody else in the house has already bought a loaf that day. When it comes time to defrost it, we just pop it on the storage heater for an hour and it thaws out fine.


  • #21
    RichieC
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    if there's space I'll chuck bread in the fridge..


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  • #22
    HeidiHeidi
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    I honestly throw out more bread than I eat.. wouldn't fancy keeping it in the fridge but it's high time someone invented some useless apparatus which claims to prolong the shelf life.

    It's all a conspiracy to make people buy more bread anyway.. just like how it's almost impossible to butter a slice on a cold morning.

    They did - it's called a freezer:D


  • #23
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I'd rather put my french stick somewhere warm and moist.


  • #24
    The House Of Wolves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭The House Of Wolves


    Keep the loaf in the fridge. Tastes grand, survives another week or so.
    Also, don't keep the eggs in the fridge. We have a fancy holder thingy.


  • #25
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Eggs definitely need keeping in the fridge AFAIC.
    Bread gets halfed and put in the freezer and taken out as needed.


  • #26
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    If you buy it from a fridge put it back in the fridge when you get home.

    If you buy it from a shelf put it in the cupboard (<< daft word).


  • #27
    mojesius
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    Heathens! Bread Bin FTW.


  • #28
    thewintermute
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 352 ✭✭thewintermute


    bread sliced in the freezer, take it out and whack it in the toaster as you need it.
    eggs at room temperature.
    Think about it. They'r not in the fridge in the shop are they?


  • #29
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    thewintermute wrote: »
    eggs at room temperature.
    Think about it. They'r not in the fridge in the shop are they?

    This is true. I always wondered why some suggest you refrigerate them after purchase.

    I always do it to be safe but then again I'm a cautious fellow me.


  • #30
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    They're not kept in fridges in the shop because the shop has a turnover rate of sale, whereas my dozen or more eggs may need to stay fresh for a month or more...they do that in the fridge.


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  • #31
    Johro
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    Eve_Dublin wrote: »
    Bread in the States doesn't go off. Myself and my ex did an experiment...we had this ridiculous long-distance relationship for 2 and a half years...him in the States, me in Ireland and every time we visited, we'd bring the same piece of American toasted bread back and forth to each other. When we broke up 2 and a half years later, the bread was still edible and perfectly intact.

    Moral of the story, you were wasting your time putting that American "bread" in the fridge. Nothing goes off in that country. That's why their 16 year olds look like 30 years olds.
    Good old preservatives. They also have cheese in a 'toob'. Mental.
    By the way, you cheated with the toasted bread. It lasts because the moisture content is gone. Try that with an ordinary slice of bread and it'll walk into the fridge itself. To dry out.


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