Twist and tuck baby
I want some scientific research into this, because I believe the twist and tuck is as good as any other method of sealing the bag, and it’s faster and requires no accessories, clips, or tools.
I take umbrage with this meme’s characterization of the twist and tuck as chaotic. It’s literally the fastest and easiest method without compromising freshness
It’s chaotic in that it doesn’t ascribe to needing the provided mechanism for closure. It also is not as great if you need to move it around, as it can come untucked easily.
That being said, twist and tuck is definitely Chaotic Good. The bottle hack belongs on the evil row.
Yeah. Who the fuck wants to fish out a plastic lid every time you get a slice of bread?
Not just the lid, but the actual cut off top of a bottle as well.
There is a minor downside: If anyone carelessly moves said bread bag, it can come untwisted, untucked, or both.
But yeah, I’m on team twist and tuck. (Although, since I live with other people, I normally just continue the method currently in place.)
We’re talking about bread… Not balls.
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My grandma used one. Personally I think the real function was to keep mice from eating your bread, but that hasn’t been a problem for a long time.
They serve to keep bread at a cool, constant temperature, keep the mice away, and help keep the bread from going stale.
To be fair, you originally said, “the real reason,” but have just listed three different equal reasons.
Bread can’t go stale if the mice keep eating it. There’s an order of operations here.
I don’t know that I agree that breadboxes were solely used in times/cases where the risk of mice getting to the bread was present but I get your reasoning.
As with many things it starts for one reason, then a different benefit comes up, becomes a norm just because, then peters out.
Same, my mom said I should get one when I moved out but we didn’t even have one at home?? 😭
She probably is just afraid you will leave the bag open and then eat moldy bread.
Open bag will just dry out, it’ll get moldy quicker with a sealed bag
Free healthcare.
I’d see myself leaving a bread box open faster than the plastic bag the bread comes in tbh
How else to store real bread?
So not just the sandwich/toast bread, that comes in plastic bags, but real bread, with a crust and in plastic wrap it would lose its crust, but without any protection, it dries out.
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English here. Anyone I know with a bread box use it in combination with one of the others. I have one, so we’re Bread Box + Twist and Tuck.
My grandma had one. Growing up we just kept our bread & bagels in the microwave.
Gf does this with baked goods. It’s awful for me because I microwave a lot and don’t always remember to put stuff back and it gets stale.
They’re pretty common here in Sweden, at least in my experience.
Twist and tuck all day erre’day
All day until I started steady living with a woman. The twist tie or whatever must be attached at all times.
Many years later we got a cheap plastic bread box and I gotta say it’s awesome. You can twist and tuck and the bread stays good even longer.
What in the world is the bottle hack
Cutting off the top of a bottle and jamming the bag through the lid to seal it.
That sounds chaotic evil to me tbh
You cut the head off a bottle so you have the screwy-bit. Then you pull the open end through the bottle-Head and screw the lid on.
Hmmmmmmmmmm microplastics in my bread
TBF those are already in there. They’re in the water supply!
Wouldn’t want to get those inside its plastic bag
Bread that’s in a plastic bag lol
I do not think you are ripping apart the plastic bag everytime. The joke is on everyone else, ours come in paper bags and you cut it with a machine.
The box being “good” is wild. That is where bread goes stale unseen and uneaten. Its gotta be near the top of pointless kitchen things that only people with more money then sense have.
A bread box can be good for packing bread or sandwiches that you want to protect from being squished, like when camping for example.
That is not a bread box, more of a travel bread case. I use one for eggs and bread stuff when camping as well. But this… thing is a counter bound thing that is heavy and artsy.
Yeah, and I’m guessing the seal is so bad that it’s only marginally better than just leaving the bag open. But even if it does seal well, it’s got way more air in there to dry the bread out between openings. Plus it takes up space and needs to be cleaned.
If it doesn’t seal well, I’d put it in CE and shift everything else by 1, except leave the CG one where it is and have the LN one skip that slot.
If it does seal well, it might make it to NE, but it would be a tough call between that and doing the same as if it didn’t seal well.
Though if your household goes through bread fast enough, then I’d say the best options are the ones that don’t involve using other materials, including just leaving it open.
Edit: Note that my harsh judgement of bread boxes assumes the bag is discarded like it appears to be in the picture. There’s a comment further down (currently) that mentions putting it in a box with the bag still on, and I could agree that that might be the best option.
Also, I thought of a new better candidate for CE: opening the bag, grabbing it by the other end, helicoptering it until empty, then grabbing bread from around the room as needed.
Oh wait, no, that’s just NE, CE is storing it in the sink, bag or no bag.
I twist and fold inside out:
Still chaotic neutral, IMO
This is not bread mate
It’s legally cake?
Always eat the entire loaf in one sitting.
I either reuse the clip or twist and tuck it if there’s no clip. I don’t understand why I’d use extra stuff for this like my own clips or rubber bands
I’m with you, either lawful or chaotic neutral is the way. Everyone else is trying to hard or not trying hard enough.
What if I keep my bread in the fridge?
Get out. Your kind isn’t welcome here.
I started doing this and have never looked back. We also keep the next loaf in the freezer, so we always have bread.
I have a queue: one loaf at the front gets stored on the counter, the next two loaves are in the fridge (generally replenished from the store, so most bread goes through my place unfrozen), then any others in the freezer.
I toast most bread I eat and find the difference between kept in fridge and not is unnoticeable.
I do similar with hot dog and hamburger buns, though they don’t have a counter space due to being used less frequently.
Haven’t had to throw out moldy bread nearly as much since I started doing that.
I learned how to do this and never went back.
I do both lawful neutral and chaotic neutral at once. Am I paranoid?
Could you repeat in baguette, please?
I feel like this alignment chart doesn’t consider how evil you could get. Leaving the bag open seems pretty tame for CE. I suggest the following:
- Lawful Good: bread box w/ the bag
- Neutral Good: bag clip
- Chaotic Good: twist and tuck
- Lawful Neutral: bread box w/o the bag
- True Neutral: original bread clip
- Chaotic Neutral: twist or tuck, not both
- Lawful Evil: bag is tied shut
- Neutral Evil: bag is left open
- Chaotic Evil: bag is torn open in the middle
Chaotic evil: bread is tossed directly into the cupboard.
Chaotic evil: bread is kept on the floor.
Chaotic stupid: bread is stapled to various trees
Lawful evil: Bag is vacuum sealed every time after using.
Step 1: get some real bread
For real. I recently discovered that the bakery at the chain supermarket across the street from me sells giant loaves of sourdough for about a dollar less than even the “budget” brands in the factory-made bread aisle. Not going back.
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It just gets stale so fast. We don’t eat that much bread.
Step Sigma: Bake your own bread
It’s way easier than you think it is to make a basic loaf of yeast-based, white bread. I had the recipe memorized for a few months while I was first getting into it.
iiffy on amounts but it ain’t many ingredients
Bread Flower
Yeast
Honey (because sugar is boring)
Salt
One Egg
Level 2: Add more honey, slightly less yeast and toss brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg in melted butter in it while rolling.
bonus round: add raisins
Hey, I really appreciate your comment and I hope you have all the fun in the world with the recipes that you like.
But I have to be honest, this is not the bread I’m talking about. I’m really sorry, I don’t want to be your opponent.
I have baked a few breads and sugar or honey is not needed to get the yeast going. That’s a misconception I’ve encountered before, talking to a US-American. What you described sounds lovely, but (for me) it goes into the direction of brioche, milk bread, Hefezopf (yeast braid) and other sweet breads bordering on cake.
Real bread is: flour, water, sourdough, industrial yeast (optional), salt, spices (optional// caraway, fennel, coriander).
The second trigger point: flour.
I’m again sorry to offload this unto you, but I have to speak my piece.
What is bread flour? The nomenclature is meaningless, but that’s the fault of the market. I need to know from a flour, which grain it comes from (wheat, rice, maize, spelt, rye, dinkel) and how much of the rind is still in it (how dark it is or how white). Protein content is a bonus.
Just as a positive send off: I love raisins and sweet breads with raisins (Hefezopf).
I knew they were different but not why, so I just looked it up. “Bread flour” refers to wheat flour above a specific threshold of protein content, which makes a difference in how gluten develops.
