There's nothing like good crusty bread straight from the oven. Yum!
Baguette, ball, cob, fougasse, whatever the type...
The problem is that over time, the bread hardens and becomes stale!
And if there's one thing I can't stand, it's wasting delicious bread because he has become stale .
So what to do?
Fortunately, I discovered a genius trick to make stale bread soft again .
Thanks to this easy and quick trick , you will never throw away stale bread again! Watch:
- stale bread
- aluminum foil
- water
1. Preheat your oven to 150°C.
2. Pass your bread under a thin stream of water , just enough to moisten the entire crust.
3. Wrap the moistened bread in aluminum foil.
4. Put the bread in the oven for 10 minutes .
5. Take the bread out and remove the foil.
6. To make the bread crispy, put it back in the oven for 5 minutes .
There you go, you've given your stale bread a "second life":-)
Easy, fast and efficient, right?
Thanks to this grandmother's trick, your stale bread turns into perfectly soft and crispy bread . Magic!
This trick works for all breads that have a crust:baguette, ficelle, boule…
I must admit that before testing this technique, I was rather skeptical.
But believe my experience, it really works.
The result is simply stunning!
Now I can take stale, almost inedible bread and turn it into perfectly soft, crispy loaf on the outside.
Try this trick and I'm sure you'll be as pleasantly surprised as I am!
The water slightly moistens the crust of the bread.
In the aluminum foil, the heat of the oven gradually turns this water into steam.
And it is this steam that will soften the bread , slowly spreading through the crumb.
As a result, the bread regains its light and soft texture, as if it had just come out of the bakery oven!
As for the second baking without the aluminum foil, this is what gives a nice crispiness to the crust of the bread. Yum!
- If your bread has already been sliced, then avoid over-moistening the crumb.
- You don't have any aluminum foil? This trick still works. Your bread will be just a little less crispy and chewy.
- Of course, remember to keep the aluminum foil, to reuse it next time. And if you don't know what to do with it, here are 19 uses.
- If you don't have an oven, put your moistened hard bread directly on your toaster, turning it several times for 2 to 3 min.
You tested this trick to turn stale bread into soft bread ? Let us know in the comments if it worked for you. We can't wait to read you!
