Would it be cost effective to wrap individual bread slices like cheese?

Have you considered refrigerating or freezing it? I do both. The plastic bags used for storing bread can also be reused. Some just require shaking out the crumbs. Others need to be washed and air-dried.

No, because a loaf of bread wrapped in the current bags won’t spoil. Cheese should not be individually wrapped either.

Too much packaging!

No, not cost effective. It would just be another one of those manufactured needs, not unlike individually wrapped cheese product slices.

As it is I think individually wrapped slices of cheese are one of the biggest wastes of plastic this society has conceived.

If you’re going through bread so slowly that a loaf has time to rot, then you may be better off divvying up the loaf into portions and freezing that which you aren’t going to eat in the next week.

It’s not cost-effective though as most people who eat bread do so quickly enough that the lof doesn’t have time to go bad.

Would it be cost effective for the company selling it? No, of course not.

The more it’s broken up into individual portions, the higher the cost.

But, as mentioned, you can take half or ¼ of the loaf and wrap and freeze it. Keeps just fine.

Bread lasts a long time in the refrigerator, no need to individually package.

I do not know of any cheese whose slices come individually wrapped.

If it’s bought from a store…trust me, that stuff has enough preservatives to outlive you and all your kin

If it’s homemade or or made by someone’s hand…freeze it. That’s what I do. I usually wrap it in small amounts of 4–5 slices.

@ragingloli You don’t get Kraft cheese slices in Germany?

As I said, I know of no cheese that comes individually wrapped.

Kraft cheese slices are a “cheese product” (whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean.)

Loli is making a distinction between THAT and actual cheese.

Haven’t you ever seen the Sargento commercial? They make the same distinction.

The Kraft “cheese product” most likely has enough plasticizers in it for a Lego set.

:D

In case you don’t get it in Canada, just go over to YouTube and and input these three words into SEARCH:

SARGENTO, CHEESE PRODUCT

You dont want the first link which is 19 mins. long but the subsequent ones for about 30 Secs. These are the commercials to which I refer.

Sargento makes real cheese without a bunch of additives. It’s real cheese. Believe me, I know the difference. The only thing they do is put a thin piece of butcher paper partly between the slices so you can get them apart.

Besides, you guys who live in Canada (and Europe) are fortunate enough to be able to get REAL REAL cheese (not the bastardized version from Pasteurized milk that we have to settle for here in the States.

You are fortunate enough to live in Canada. Why on earth would you ever buy Kraft processed cheese product?

Go find a real Cheese shop where the people really love their product and usually give samples to taste.

Then you’ll find out what real cheese is supposed to taste like. I envy you.

Kraft “cheese” is nasty….and no it is not cheese.

I heard they found some of it recently at Pompeii and made it into a grilled cheese sandwich.

That is too funny for words. I believe it.

There are two things which will survive a nuclear holocaust: cockroaches and Kraft cheese product slices. Ha ha.

:D

@Buttonstc And you know what was even more amazing? There was a profile of the Virgin Mary on the sandwich.

I really do not get the appeal of this yellow industrial sludge.
It is fiddly to unwrap, it tastes nothing like cheese, and creates/is lots of waste.
I mean, if you want a creamy cheese, get a camembert or brie. Tastes a million times better, too.

In the states you can buy ½ loaves of bread, @talljasperman.
For the longest life and freshest taste, you should probably buy unsliced and keep it in the fridge. Just make sure you have a bread (ir other serrated) knife.
Or just buy a package of pre-cooked frozen rolls?

3 @Buttonstc. You forgot the Twinkie desert.

Didn’t the company that produces Twinkies recently go out of business?

But there are probably enough of them tucked into nooks and crannies everywhere to last a millenia or two :)

@Buttonstc They did… in November 2012. But they were bought out and Twinkies™ returned in July 2013.

However, one thing that has not changed in the last 2–3 years; Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

Do not store your bread in the refrigerator. Store only as much bread as you can eat, before it goes bad, wrapped up, on the counter. Tightly wrap and freeze the rest of it. To thaw, take out as many pieces as you will need, and put them in a ziplock bag on the counter to thaw. Do not put them in the refrigerator. Read below to find out why.

Wheat flour, the primary ingredient (along with water and yeast) of bread dough, is packed full of granules of starch. That starch, in its natural state, is largely in crystalline form, meaning the starch molecules are arranged in a defined geometric structure. Once mixed with water to form a dough and baked in the oven at high temperatures, the crystalline structure of the starch breaks down as the starch absorbs water and becomes increasingly amorphous (meaning the starch molecules have no clearly defined structure).

As the bread cools, however, those starches begin to slowly regroup into a more ordered, crystalline structure again, and it’s this gradual return (“retrogradation”) to the crystal state (“recrystallization”) that causes bread to harden and grow stale. This process is so central to staling, in fact, that even bread that has been hermetically sealed to prevent all moisture loss will still harden and turn stale.

The reason a refrigerator is bad for bread: When bread is stored in a cold (but above freezing) environment, this recrystallization, and therefore staling, happens much faster than at warmer temperatures. Freezing, however, dramatically slows the process down.

Source ^^

I tried storing bread in the fridge once. Didn’t care for it. I didn’t really see any difference of it lasting longer than if you had it out on the counter. I don’t like cold bread. I don’t think it would be very cost effective to individually wrap each slice. Just put it in the freezer.. I think it would be fine to thaw outside the fridge, as long as it’s still wrapped and you don’t forget about it.

@AshlynM It depends in the climate. Most houses here are typically 76–77 degrees and the humidity is likely around 52ish most of the time. Great for growing mold. Up north my house was often 68–70 degrees and the humidity was much much lower at least half of the year. The fridge will double how long my bread lasts living in Florida, but I agree with others freezing it is a better way. I keep it fresh on the counter for three days and then if we are not eating it quickly I move it to the fridge or freezer.

I put bread in the freezer all the time. When I am ready to use it I usually end up toasting it.

Yeah – my loaves always go directly into the freezer and take out slices as I need them. The sliced breads defrost in minutes.

Never cared for defrosted or refrigerated bread. It always tastes funny.

Actually, probably as much a textural thing as taste.

@rojo For me that is more true of fresh unsliced bread than packaged bread.

I have found that keeping bread in the fridge keeps it fresher much longer as long as it stays sealed in the bag. Virtually eliminates mold for some reason

See @jerv