Most breads are just a vehicle for other flavors, like rice, potatoes, pasta and other starches they don’t have much flavor on their own, and most people don’t actually like them on their own. You don’t love pasta, you love sauces, you don’t love bread, you love the PB&J on the bread, you don’t love rice, you love the stir fry over it.
Breads are great to have for sandwiches, gravies, hot sandwiches, stuffing’s, bread puddings, toasts, dipping and many other thing. It is also another thing you can freeze and use one or two slices at a time with just an overnight defrost, or quick toast. The main problems with freezing breads is slices sticking together, and them getting smooshed being in bags not made for them. I address those issues here.
I start with the bread, some waxed paper, and scissors.
Open a loaf of bread and carefully slide the stack of slices out, keeping the original wrapper intact.
Turn the first slice over, and place a square of the waxed paper between each slice, keeping the stack true.
Stack the entire loaf back upon itself. The waxed paper will keep the slices from freezing together, and make grabbing one or two slices easy.
Slide the original packaging over the stack – this will keep it in a tidy stack in the freezer. Check for sizing against a freezer bag. The original bag is to keep it together but is not enough to protect it in the freezer, so adding the freezer bag is double protection. Depending on the size of the loaf you may need to pull a couple slices from the stack – but hey, we have Chicken Salad Sandwiches from our 2 Chickens $10 – 30 servings so we will use those up. If not you can freeze them as well, just use those first. Repeat with the second loaf, and they tidy up to the bin rather nicely.
English muffins are about the same, but fit better in a gallon freezer bag in two stacks with a couple left over. I use the original packaging to stabilize one 1/2 stack then slide the second stack into the bag beside it. Use the single bagged stack first. A couple left over for usage now. All tidy in the freezer with the meat bin still waiting to be filled up with 2 Chickens $10 – 30 servingsBacon (link pork) Italian sausages, and ground beef. Now you can grab some bread or muffins whenever you want, a quick toast and good to go!
I have always cooked, I was that person who could make a meal from an empty fridge. I have lived alone and with large and small families, I have cooked for camps on wood stoves, and in professional kitchens. I have lived and worked all over the west from Montana, to Seattle to Arizona to San Diego. I have traveled, maybe not 'all over the world', yet, and have collected tastes recipes and techniques everywhere, and every one I meet.
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