• grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I live in a humid climate (especially in the summer), and if we don’t refrigerate our bread and tortillas, or any baked goods, they get moldy in like 4 days.

    • magiccupcake@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Have you tried freezing it?

      Refrigerating baked goods accelerates staleness, but most baked goods freeze well.

      • Worf@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I’ve had bread in the freezer for months, I throw it straight in the toaster and it comes out like, well… normal ass toast.

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        1 year ago

        Freeze it every time.

        If you’re anything less than a family of four, leaving bread at room temperature is just eating half a loaf of bread and then throwing away half a loaf of mouldy bread.

        Most supermarket bread has indeed already been frozen before you get it.

        I even freeze all the cakes from Costco, since they only seem to come in packs of about a thousand.

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        1 year ago

        Only exception for me is tortillas. I mean they technically freeze well, but they will also stick together which would make quite a thick burrito.

        My parents always freeze them and I always forget until I’m there trying to make a burrito and it tears in half.

        • deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          yup. tortillas go in the fridge so you can get individual ones easily. Staleness never really bothered me, but i do warm them up on the stove to improve malleability. And i like to get my burritos a little crispy on the outside to help seal the final fold. Now i want burritos…

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            1 year ago

            I freeze tortillas, one trick to using them after they thaw is rolling the whole package a couple of times both ways.

            Still have to be careful separating them, but it’s no worse than a package of tortilla that has sat underneath too much weight for too long.

            This trick also works with tortillas that sat underneath too much weight for too long

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          1 year ago

          Chuck them in the microwave or better yet put baking paper (which if i recall correctly you usians call wax paper or parchment paper) in between each tortilla before you freeze it to keep them seperate

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      1 year ago

      Same. I don’t get why people act like putting bread in the fridge is world ending. Unless your eating a whole loaf of bread in 2 days in the fridge it goes.

      That or you get a loaf of mold on the 4th day.

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            1 year ago

            Also pan toasted toast with butter is way better than the toaster

            I just butter and toast on low heat and flip once the other side starts to feel warm

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              1 year ago

              That’s so good and I do this too. I don’t actually even own a regular toaster anymore. I do have an old toaster oven. The timer on it hasn’t worked in years but I have other kitchen timers and it still cooks like a champ. It even has a convection mode.

        • Asafum@feddit.nl
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          1 year ago

          Toasting! Doesn’t even have to be browned, doesn’t even have to go long enough to get firm, but a little warming up makes bread even better! :D

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      1 year ago

      I too grew up in a humid environment and got used to using either a bread box or the fridge.

      Then I realized that our bread was just cheap sugar infused garbage, and that if you pay a bit more for better bread, it does not mold anywhere nearly as quickly.

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      1 year ago

      Same. In the winter here, bread can last two weeks, but in the summer it’ll mold in a day or two.