If I don’t put my bread in the fridge, it’s moldy within a week. It’s all meant to be toasted anyway.
Mine didn’t refrigerate bread when I was growing up, but I do now. There are less people in the house so the bread stays around longer.
As a german this is heresy.
What Americans call “bread” doesn’t qualify as bread to Germans anyway. Kinda like beer.
We make plenty of good bread and some of the best beer in the world. We just also make some of the worst of both. Big country, tons of room in the market. (We also have excellent wine, chocolate, cheese, whatever you want. It’s just not necessarily at your local supermarket.)
I live in a humid climate (especially in the summer), and if we don’t refrigerate our bread and tortillas, or any baked goods, they get moldy in like 4 days.
Refrigerating bread slows down mold growth…
This increasing the shelf life.
You don’t have to refrigerate bread. But you can with clear reason.
Peanut butter does NOT go in the fridge. 🤬
Batteries
“Only white people put ketchup in the fridge.” - my Mexican roommate
Ketchup belongs in the fridge, to cut the heat. Otherwise it’s too spicy.
The best before date is based on it being refrigerated and the reason why we do it is to slow bacteria multiplication to a crawl
