Stop Wrapping Bread In Plastic And Try This Trick To Keeping It Fresh Instead

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Storage And Preservation

Stop Wrapping Bread In Plastic And Try This Trick To Keeping It Fresh Instead By Dylan Murray Aug. 28, 2025 5:35 pm EST

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Bread is a type of food that is impacted massively by the way in which you store it. While storing fresh bread in plastic is a well-known blunder , even store-bought bread — which is often sold within a plastic bag — should be kept elsewhere if you want it to last as long as possible at its ideal quality. Instead, the key to maintaining your bread well is to keep it within a cloth or paper bag.

The reason that cloth and paper work so well is due to them both giving your bread a perfect medium in terms of air exposure. Bread exposed to dry air for too long — which happens when it's put in th