According to what some specialists and professionals have said, putting bread in the fridge can be counterproductive. Find out the reasons.
Rule number one for keep bread at home is starting from a good product. Said in Creole, buy a good quality bread. We will hardly be able to work the miracle that an industrial pre-frozen bar made with cheap flour and fast fermentation can be kept in good condition for a long time. But, if we have invested in a quality artisan loaf, or if we bake our own homemade breadwe want that stay in good condition several days. Whatever you do, never put it in the refrigerator.
This has been revealed by various specialists: the best thing to do is wrap the bread in a clean cloth of cotton or linen, other than washing with softeners or perfumes. Or, failing that, in a bread box, with a suitable “kraft” paper bag or waxed paper. But, always, always, at room temperature, in a cool, dry place without direct light.
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Save the bread: why not use the fridge?
The refrigerator itself, all it gets is accelerate quality loss bread, shortening its useful life and causing it to spoil much sooner.
A bread spoils or ruins when it is getting hard and rancid. It hardens because it loses moisture, but also because a retrogradation and recrystallization of starches containing.
How is a bread composed?
A bread dough is made up of proteins and starcheswhich absorb liquids during kneading, fermented and baked. But the key to the transformation is above all in the last step: in the heat of the oven. those molecules break their shape and give the final structure to the bread. And once it cools down, they turn to reconfigure.
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As the hours and days go by, little by little, the starches and proteins they regressagain absorbing moisture and returning to its original state. It is the recrystallization that causes it to become hard, dry and somewhat rancid.
A refrigerator is a dry and very cold environment, with a temperature slightly above freezing. It ends up being the perfect atmosphere for those processes they accelerate resoundinglynot to mention the strange smells that you can end up acquiring a bread inside. The freezer, on the other hand, stops and slows down this degradation, giving us more margin of conservation.
Source: Ambito
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