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On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:24:39 -0400, Dave Smith
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>>> 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.
>
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>> 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.

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>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.


Since discovering this brand it's mostly all we buy.
http://www.heidelbergbread.com/bread/