Home made bread - how to store?

Never used a breadmaker but do make a lot of bread. I bought a bread bag which is material with a plastic liner - I think it was from Lakeland.
It keeps the loaf fresh beautifully & wasn't expensive

We’ve been making our own bread for quite a few years now since a programme with Shouty Wallace showed how many extras were added to mass produced bread.

Made a real difference to OH’s rhinitis. Usually a mix of whole meal and white flour. We keep it in the fridge especially in the summer.

Surely the words "store" and "home made bread" do not go in the same sentence?!!

Whatever you do, don't wrap it in plastic and store in a metal bread bin !
I made the mistake of buying one because I like the look of it - after 2 days, this time of year, the bread goes mouldy!
I usually have bakery bread from the supermarket - I take it out of the plastic wrapping and put it in an old paper bag (from the bakery bit in Tescos) and put it in the fridge!

I make a loaf and rolls. The rolls are put in a freezer bag and then frozen. The loaf is wrapped in a clean teatowel. They defrost easily in the microwave and taste like freshly baked.
I sourced fresh yeast at a village bakers. Try Tesco they stopped fresh yeast at lockdown but it may be available again now. Dried yeast is also available again in some supermarkets.

I make two sourdough loaves each week - it is very moorish. I cover it with a t- towel as it comes out of the oven, otherwise it forms a hard crust, once cooled I wrap one in cling film and freeze it, the other I keep in the bread bin. It doesn’t last as long as shop bought because a) it isn’t full of preservatives and b) because it is so delicious!

We bought a bread crock from Ar**s, and it works perfectly fine. Do ensure to clear out the inevitable crumbs that will you accumulate in the bottom though as I've spotted some going mouldy in the past. Wrapping in a clean tea towel is ideal though but never use a plastic bag, your lovely loaf will go mouldy very quickly.

Found this recipe Homepride web site if you can't get yeast have not tried it yet
INGREDIENTS
375g Homepride Superior Sponge Flour or Self Raising Flour
45g Caster Sugar
1 tsp Salt
330ml Bottle of Pale Beer/Ale
45g Melted Butter
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METHOD
1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C/160 degrees C fan
2. Grease a 2lb loaf tin
3. In a large bowl add the flour, sugar, salt, beer and half of the melted
butter and whisk
thoroughly to combine
4. Pour the mix into the loaf tin
BEER BREAD
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5. Drizzle the remaining melted butter over the top of the uncooked
dough
6. Bake in the preheated oven for approximately 50 minutes or until
golden and an inserted
skewer/tooth pick comes out clean
7. Once baked, remove from the oven and allow to cool in the tin for
5 minutes
8. Remove the cooked loaf from the tin and allow to cool on a wire
rack

I’ve made my own bread for years, and am currently baking bread every other day because we are all at home. Presently, I’m making sourdough, which is SO much nicer than bread made with bought yeast. I, too, slice And freeze it.

I wrap mine in clingfilm, and put it in the fridge - it's perfectly fine for the (at most) 3 days I need it to last for. If you need it to last any longer, I'd advise the freezer, as others have said.

I am on my own, so I make two loaves and put one in the freezer. The other one keeps well in the fridge, wrapped in clingfilm or foil.

Try the "Hairy Bikers" Focaccia bread recipe - absolutely fantastic - that's what the Romans did for us!!

The best way to store warm Just-out-of-the-oven bread is to slather it in butter, open mouth, and insert into face!
If there is any left over after that, then let it go cold, slice with a sharp knife, and place it into a clean bread bag from the supermarket sliced loaf that you will have saved for that very purpose.
Then pop it in the freezer, and remove whatever amount you need at whatever time you need it.
Sorted!

I have made bread for I don’t know how long . Used to win prizes at WI for it. When I found it difficult to stand I got a small bread maker. As I didn’t like the shape from the maker I now use it to make dough and cook two small loaves in my mini oven. Freeze one. I also make a fruit loaf because I don’t eat cake. Got some yeast from Amazon.

Can I ask what a "stone bread pancheon" is???????

With a family of five children, I used to spend a lot on bread. I decided that it would be much cheaper to make my own. Unfortunately this more or less resulted in a queue down the hall, waiting for it to come out of the oven. They were eating more, and thicker, slices of home-made bread, resulting also in a bigger consumption of butter and various toppings.
My waistline was also suffering!
I reverted, amid many complaints, to shop-bought.
The ravening horde has long since left home, and I now make myself a loaf occasionally. I slice it and freeze it in small batches, to stop me eating too much.
It’s amazing how much the price of bread has increased in the last year or two, isn’t it.

I haven't the strength in my thumbs to kneed so a few years ago I started to buy bread mixes. My favourite is Wright's Cheddar & Sun Dried Tomato Bread Mix.

I slice and freeze it as I do the sour dough bread I buy every week.

I might invest in a bread machine one day.

Someone mentioned still not getting yeast. My daughter in North West has only just started to find it in the supermarket again. I posted to packets to her a month ago.

I put half the dough in the freezer when it is ready to bake and bake the other half, as that suits our needs.

Loaves when cold go into a thin plastic bag, or cotton bag and into our bread tin, which is actually a basket.

I am surprised how many of you keep bread in the fridge.

I find it goes stale quicker in the fridge than in a bread tin.

I bought a clear plastic container from Amazon. Comes with a slice guide and adjusts with the size of the loaf. It's brilliant.

We do like merlotgran. Slice the whole loaf and freeze in packs of enough slices to make us both a sandwich. Or in couples. Enjoy

Woodmouse - I had to give up handkneading too because of arthritis in my hands. We bought a Kenwood mixer with a kneading hook and that copes with up to 1kg flour and makes 3 decent sized loaves. After rising bake as normal in the oven.
Never tried a bread machine because making just one loaf seems a waste of time.
I store extra loaves in plastic bags in the freezer.

What a lovely story about your 5 ravenous children GreenGran78.
I can't remember who told me, but when the crust is going hard you can splash it with a bit of water and put the bread in the oven to recrispen for a few minutes.

Can somebody please recommend a bread maker?
I especially love sourdough bread.

My local Morrison's has fresh yeast in packs of four - foil wrapped & freezable.