I live in a humid climate (especially in the summer), and if we don't refrigerate our bread and tortillas, or any baked goods, they get moldy in like 4 days.
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Have you tried freezing it?
Refrigerating baked goods accelerates staleness, but most baked goods freeze well.
I’ve had bread in the freezer for months, I throw it straight in the toaster and it comes out like, well… normal ass toast.
Frozen bread or bust. No one's wants that cardboard you kept in the fridge.
Refrigerating bread slows down mold growth...
This increasing the shelf life.
You don't have to refrigerate bread. But you can with clear reason.
Mine refuse to refrigerate cheese (other than cream-cheese) and butter. Infuriates me as it gets super oily and rancid real fast.
Wait you guys don't refrigerate your bread?
Bread absolutely lasts longer when refrigerated
Peanut butter does NOT go in the fridge. 🤬
My father taught me to put LSD bloaters in the fridge.
I've lived on my own for a while and I freeze everything I can. Nothing lasts long enough unless it's frozen or shelf safe.
This does mean I get a lot of my fruits in smoothie form.
I'm lucky most vegan things last longer than the non-vegan things I grew up with.
I'm vegan too, and God bless how long our food lasts.
I've had roommates where we just ended up buying our own ketchup, mustard, soy sauce, fish sauce, Sriracha, and probably other things I can't remember because they were weirdos that refrigerated those things. I kept mine in the cupboard, they kept theirs in the fridge.
Cum socks
Chocolate is much better refrigerated
Apparently some people refrigerate butter
If I don't put my bread in the fridge, it's moldy within a week. It's all meant to be toasted anyway.
Clean your cupboards. Mold spores can remain on surfaces for months. Give everything a good wipe-down with some cleaning spray or vinegar solution and then leave the cabinets open to dry out well. And do it again anytime food gets moldy.
Packaged bread should last more than a week, but fresh bread is meant to be eaten within a few days, if not the same day.
I used to live in a desert and bread easily lasted for weeks. Once I moved to what is essentially a rain forest, it doesn't last more than 5 days. I have to refrigerate it.
Yes, you're right about the humidity being the biggest factor, and that will also make bread go stale. It also depends on whether it's prepackaged bread or freshly baked. Prepackaged bread is less likely to arrive with mold spores, and the packaging keeps humidity out during transit and storage. Once it is opened to the humidity, especially in tropical climates, refrigeration will slow any growth.
For people in arid climates, their refrigerator might actually be more humid than their cupboards.
Humidity is an interesting metric. It's a percentage of the airs total capacity to absorb moisture.
It's not a measure of percentage of water(vapour?) in the air.
Air can have 100% humidity. It can't have 100% water