What did your parents refrigerate? Mine refrigerated bread.
What did your parents refrigerate? Mine refrigerated bread.
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If I don't put my bread in the fridge, it's moldy within a week. It's all meant to be toasted anyway.
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Clean your cupboards. Mold spores can remain on surfaces for months. Give everything a good wipe-down with some cleaning spray or vinegar solution and then leave the cabinets open to dry out well. And do it again anytime food gets moldy.
Packaged bread should last more than a week, but fresh bread is meant to be eaten within a few days, if not the same day.
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I used to live in a desert and bread easily lasted for weeks. Once I moved to what is essentially a rain forest, it doesn't last more than 5 days. I have to refrigerate it.
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Yes, you're right about the humidity being the biggest factor, and that will also make bread go stale. It also depends on whether it's prepackaged bread or freshly baked. Prepackaged bread is less likely to arrive with mold spores, and the packaging keeps humidity out during transit and storage. Once it is opened to the humidity, especially in tropical climates, refrigeration will slow any growth.
For people in arid climates, their refrigerator might actually be more humid than their cupboards.
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Humidity is an interesting metric. It's a percentage of the airs total capacity to absorb moisture.
It's not a measure of percentage of water(vapour?) in the air.
Air can have 100% humidity. It can't have 100% water
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Greatly depends on your country. Dutch bread is very fresh when bought with little to no preservatives. So we freeze our bread, like 90%of us, cuz it will mold in the fridge after like 4 or 5 days if not sooner.
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I'm guessing you don't live somewhere with high heat & humidity, or if you do you run your AC a lot. We keep bread on the counter and in the fridge but not all bread is equally resistant to mold, even some packaged bread. In the winter it's a lot more forgiving. Also we just open the windows and run fans quite a bit in the summer.
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Naw, I'm too lazy for that.
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I've gotten some bread with no preservatives and it went in a couple days
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If i bake bread i will eat it within 2 days
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*2 hours
This is why I don't bake bread.
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Well with some breads yeah... Its healthier and cheaper than store bought bread so I dont mind
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Yeah, but...
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Worth it
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