Questions about the Storing Bread poster

What’s on the Storing Bread poster?

A definition and 6 facts worth remembering. Bread stales through starch retrogradation, in which cooked starch recrystallises and expels water. The process is fastest just above freezing — which is exactly fridge temperature. Refrigeration speeds staling; it does not slow it.; Freezing halts it almost entirely.; Freeze sliced, and toast from frozen.; A paper bag or bread bin suits crusty loaves.; Plastic keeps it soft but softens the crust.; Reheating briefly at 180°C reverses staling temporarily.; Fridge — worst; Freezer — best; Bin — 2–3 days; A loaf frozen on the day of baking and toasted from frozen is close to fresh.. Stale is not the same as mouldy. Stale bread is perfectly good for toast, croutons, breadcrumbs and pudding.

Who is the Storing Bread poster for?

Storing Bread belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning ingredients can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Storing Bread poster?

Never refrigerate bread. It goes stale several times faster at fridge temperature. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Storing Bread belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Storing Bread?

Cheese, Chillies and Choosing Fish sit alongside Storing Bread in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.CheeseChilliesChoosing Fish

Is the Storing Bread poster free to download and print?

Yes. Storing Bread downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Storing Bread poster print at?

Storing Bread is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Storing Bread loses nothing.Printing guide