• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    31
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    4 months ago

    My mother, for years, has frozen bread and then defrosted it two pieces at a time in the microwave.

    If you’ve ever seen the Albert Brooks movie Mother, that’s her. She even said it was her when she saw it. She’s even started writing novels in her old age after wanting to be a writer when she was a kid.

    • graymess@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      23
      ·
      4 months ago

      Freeze bread to keep it from going bad and thaw it as needed either at room temp or low heat in a toaster oven. Bread in the fridge just dries out.

    • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      22
      ·
      4 months ago

      We always freeze all our bread, we don’t eat it fast enough for it to not go bad (is this a weird take??).

      But yeah thawing bread in the microwave is roughhhh, we either use a toaster or just let it thaw at room temperature.

      • HonorableScythe@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        4 months ago

        Same, I eat bread really slowly so it usually takes me a few weeks to finish a loaf. Don’t really mind defrosting it, takes maybe twenty seconds in the microwave.

      • BitchPeas@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        4 months ago

        Oh I eat it fast enough. One day, one loaf. That is my reason for freezing it. SLOW THE BRED INTAKE BITCH like omg.

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      4 months ago

      To be fair I bake my own bread, and I usually freeze half the loaf because without preservatives it goes bad fast, but thawing at room temp is fine. But store bread no.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        4 months ago

        Huh, when I bake bread, it normally doesn’t last the night. A bunch of hungry teenagers smelling bread baking a couple hours will do that

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, we’re talking store bread and thawing it in the nuker and immediately making a sandwich with it even though it’s all soggy. It’s so gross.

      • apemint@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        4 months ago

        Never had problem thawing store bought bread before.

        You have to put the bread in an airtight bag before freezing and let it completely thaw out in the bag before opening. This way the total moisture content within the bag will remain the same.

    • norimee@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      4 months ago

      I freeze all my bread and put it in the toaster to thaw. I don’t want to eat fresh bread for two days and then the rest of the week the rest of the stale loaf.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        4 months ago

        The toaster makes a hell of a lot more sense than the microwave. She’s eaten soggy sandwiches for decades.

    • bustAsh@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      4 months ago

      You can put saltine crackers in the freezer and they won’t freeze. They’ll just stay crispy.