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Posts tagged “stale bread”

Waste Not: 5 Ways to Use Leftover Bread

We've been baking our own weekly bread for a while now, which has been extremely satisfying. But on the downside, we've discovered that our homemade bread stales a lot quicker than store-bought bread....

Food Science: Why Bread Stales

Did you know that bread actually begins staling almost the minute it comes out of the oven? Yes, you can thank a little chemical process called "starch retrogradation" for this particular effect! Howe...