If you're surprised that storing your bread in the freezer is the worst thing you can do for it, then you're not alone because we were shocked to. However, it turns out there's a solid, logical reason behind it:
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It sounds counter-intuitive (no pun intended), seeing as how refrigerators were invented to help us preserve the freshness of food. So to understand why, Serious Eats broke it down into the science of “retrogradation and recrystallization of starch,” a complicated way of saying that during a bread’s lifetime (which begins when a bread cools after being heated during baking), its starches (which were rearranged when baked) will regroup back to their original, crystallized state. Thus, your bread becomes hard, or stale.
Putting it into the fridge simply hustles this process along.
Instead, put bread in an airtight container and then place it in the freezer. Better still, buy whole loaves instead of sliced, as whole loaves keep longer, and then only slice what you need. Store the rest of the loaf with the cut side down against the table.
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Article Source: Huffington Post
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