Why is it that people enjoy debating over where they store certain food items in their homes? If it’s not the tomato sauce, it’s the butter, and if it’s not the, it’s the jam. And if it’s not the jam, it’s the chocolate..
. Well, now a new item has been added to the list and this time it’s bread. Known as the “King of bread”, Paul Hollywood from The Great British Bake Off is often asked where the best place is to store bread at home.
“A big question I get asked a lot, ‘Where do you store bread?’,” he admits in a video uploaded on TikTok. And he took the time to finally settle the debate that leaves so many people divided. “If you put your bread in the fridge, it will stale three times quicker because you’re drawing all of the moisture out of the loaf,” he explains.
With that being said, Paul says he stores his bread on the kitchen bench. “I just put it in a brown bag and leave it on the side!” he shares. Despite the professional baker’s answer, many were still unable to agree.
“I say you’re wrong,” one person simply commented. And many others agreed because they found their bread actually stayed fresher longer when stored in the fridge. “I keep mine in a sealed bag in the fridge – it keeps much better in rather than out,” someone shared.
“We keep our bread in the fridge it lasts so much longer,” another chimed in. And it wasn’t just the freshness that they were considering. The likelihood of mold growing faster when store.