>> If there are enough people around to eat a loaf of bread within a day or
>> two will slice it as needed. My wife rarely eats bread and I only eat a
>> slice or two a day, so I keep bread in the freezer. It is hard to slice
>> frozen bread, so I get sliced bread from our local bakery and take out a
>> slice or two as needed.
>
> I found that when sliced bread is frozen the slices stick together.

Sometimes they do stick a little. It is only our baker's sourdough whole
wheat that I have trouble prying apart. Sometimes I have to slide a
knife in and pry it a bit. The rest of the time I can pull it off by
hand. The regular whole wheat separated much more easily. I am careful
how I put it into the freezer and make sure that it is not bent and
mutilated because that makes it hard to separate when frozen.


> When we buy bakery bread we don't have them slice it, we slice as
> needed, a loaf goes in the fridge and lasts us 4-5 days. When we buy
> packaged sliced bread it's kept in the fridge... if frozen the entire
> loaf is defrosted in the fridge.
If I could go through a loaf in 4-5 days I might keep it in the fridge.
However, I love of bread lasts me about a week and a half. It would go
from fresh to stale to an penicillin project before I got through it.

> About half the time we buy hard
> rolls. We obviously consume more bread than you... and we both prefer
> different types of bread. My wife prefers multi-grain breads, loaded
> with seeds... I like bread with seeds but my teeth don't enjoy it, She
> toasts her bread, I rarely toast bread. I can tell when she's
> toasting bread, invariably the smoke alarm goes off.

I like whole wheat rolls, but good ones are hard to find. Our regular
baker makes good ones, but they are expensive. I was getting white
dinner rolls from an Italian bakery on one town but the last two times
they were not fresh. Actually, two batches ago the owner warned me they
were day old. That's fine because they were going in the freezer anyway,
and day olds from the freezer are as good as those bought fresh then
frozen. They turned out to have been a lot more than day old. They were
stale. The next time I bought fresh rolls and they were half stale.

Last week I started picking them up at a different Italian bakery. The
rolls were fresher and froze nicely. When thawed for use they were very
fresh tasting.