Bread Bins!

[Valeriea]

Is it better to buy a stainless steel bread bin or a wooden one,or will the bread go stale more quickly in the stainless steel one?

[anneasquith]

i dont use bread bins, sorry. i think the bread goes soggy,

[madmaggot]

If the bin has a seal it will keep the bread fresh for longer but I wouldn't worry too much if you buy commercially prepared bread because most of it has preservative in; just pop it into a polythene bag then into the bread bin.

[Old_Geezer]

I bought a wooden one once, many years ago. Nice looking one, roll top and all. Stopped using it when it started to get black spots. Not happy about that, one would have thought they were treated or something. I'd advise metal or plastic or even a pottery one.

[Voulez-vous]

Huge disagreement once in my house about bread bins! Our problem was whether to leave it open or shut.

We agreed, in the end, to ditch the bloody thing. Life's too short to row about a bread bin!

[grasscarp]

I now keep my bread mainly in the fridge, as someone told me it stays fresher that way.

[237SJ]

Wooden because it`s more breathable. I bought my mum a lovely china bread bin and she says the bread goes mouldy quicker. I wouldn`t have one of those roll top, slatted ones unless the bread is in plastc though. When I was looking for a bread bin and I looked closely at those, they tend to create fine wood dust everytime they are closed where the wood rubs against itself.

[boxtops]

we've got a wooden one.

[hc4361]

This is the best thing since sliced bread.
http://www.amazon.co....ead-Bag/dp/B002G6K5OM

[Voulez-vous]

That's where we now keep our bread, too, Grasscarp!

[vodkancoke]

I keep mine in the freezer. Bread bins have never been my friend, my bread always seems to go soggy in a bread bin.

[pdust]

i havent bought a loaf for so long I can't even remember where I kept them.....