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Freeze bread is a very comfortable habit and helping to eliminate waste. Especially for small families, for those who live alone or, more generally, for those who advance it when it is still fresh. There are also those who prefer to buy larger loaves than necessary to be able to divide them into comfortable portions to remove from the freezer if necessary, just to always have them fresh and ready to use when needed. It is a very comfortable solution, if you think the freezer bread is perfectly preserved up to 6 months. In this process, however, the most insidious passage is certainly that of thawing that often, in our hectic lives, takes place in the microwave. What should you pay attention to get a good, fragrant and fragrant bread even at weeks away? What to do so as not to find yourself with slices of mushy bread, wet and ready to turn into marble within a few minutes? Here are the advice to follow and mistakes to avoid.

How to freeze?

The first step to have fresh bread is best organized in the first storage phase. It is important to pay attention to the distribution of portions. Think about how to use bread usually and consider that, for example, sliced ​​bread is more comfortable to manage and take less time to freeze and thaw. But without nothing changes in the quality of the product you consume, you can also freeze it in larger parts or entirely.

The bags

Another activity to have when preparing the package for the freezer is the choice of the container. Choose airtight bags from which you can remove the air before putting everything in the freezer or wrap the bread (whole or sliced) in a linen cloth before putting it in a bag or in a container.

How to defrost

The best way to defrost any food - including bread - is not subjecting it to thermal shocks, but let the thawing is the most gradual possible. If you have organized portions in slices, consider that to return to room temperature you will need about 25 minutes. For larger pieces, instead, it will take up to a few hours. A Summer Tip: Put the bread to defrost in the refrigerator the night before.

Microwave oven

But when time is missing? How do you do when we don't have time to wait for bread to gradually receive or have unexpected guests for dinner or if we are caught by a sudden, irrepressible desire to prepare a sandwich on the fly and at home we only have frozen bread? We ask for help of the insostible friend Microwave! But ... there's one but! When you disconnect your bread into the microwave, you run a great risk: if the defrosting settings are not the right ones, we could find ourselves with a wet bread, a little mush, ready to harden within a few minutes. Not exactly the soft bread, fragrant fragrant that we imagined.

How (not) thaw in the microwave?

When you use the microwave oven to defrost bread or other foods, the only function to use is thatdefrost. Never use the grill or another function that usually serves to heat. With too high temperatures, you reach too quickly, you run the risk of melt the glucose molecules present in the dough of bread. This process leads to that excessively soft consistency that then, at a lower temperature out of the oven, will bring those molecules to crystallize again, making bread hard as marble.

Low temperatures and reduced time

To defrost the bread in the microwave oven preserving its consistency, fragrance and the good flavor of the freshly baked product, pay attention to two fundamental factors: the temperature and time of permanence of the product in the oven. The first must be very low - it is usually sufficient to choose functiondefrost Already scheduled, to work on a limited power - and time must be very very limited. For bread slices, very few seconds are enough, for the pieces of larger loaves or for sizes such as sandwiches and rosettes can be needed between 20 and 40 seconds.