Soften Hard Bagels
New episodes Tuesdays at /9:30c SUBSCRIBE to truTV: Full episodes: New episodes Tuesdays at /9:30c A damp paper towel and a microwave are all you need to make a stale bagel fresh again. Welcome to the weekly half hour show that provides a comedic spin on the never-ending supply of everyday life hacks. Hosted by Kevin Pereira and Brooke Van Poppelen, this series demonstrates how to incorporate eye popping shortcuts guaranteed to save today's busy adults a lot of time, effort and money. From learning how to open a bottle of wine with your shoe, to finding out the multiple uses for a toilet paper roll, there is never a shortage of hacks to discover. Viewers beware: your lives will never be the same. TruTV Official Site: Like truTV on Facebook: Follow truTV on Twitter: Follow truTV on Tumblr: Get the truTV app: Way more truTV! Watch clips, sneak peeks and exclusives from original shows like Comedy Knockout, Those Who Can't and more – plus fresh video from hit shows like Impractical Jokers and The Carbonaro Effect.
Jul 29, 2009 Can I fix a bagel that's too stale to chew? How can I eat rock hard bagels? It will soften for about 3 seconds and then make it harder. Confession: I love bagels. I love to make them, but above all, I love to eat them. In college I ran a mini-bagel business from my kitchen, and on bagel-making day, it.
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Three simple and easy ways to save your stale bread. There are few things that are as delicious as a fresh baked loaf of bread hot out of the oven. It's also hard to eat an entire loaf of bread while it is at it's freshest. Keeping bread fresh is a losing battle, from the moment it is done baking it begins to lose it's moisture through a process called starch retrogradation. In the original baking process, the starch began to gelatinize above 150F and absorb moisture. Once absorbed, the starches swell and create the spongy fresh solid texture we associate with bread. As the starches recrystallize over time they loose the moisture that was once locked in in the baking process.
By simply reheating your bread your starches will re-gelatinize and reinstall the soft texture we have come to associate with 'fresh'. This Instructable will cover three different methods for remoistening your stale bread.
This method is by far the fastest way to soften your stale bread and has the longest lasting results. Steps:. Moisten a section of paper towel long enough to completely cover your loaf of bread (or the portion that you intend to eat). Do so by soaking your paper towel in cold water, and then squeeze out as much of the water as you can. Wrap your portion of bread in your damp paper towel snuggly.
Place your covered loaf or slice into your microwave. Microwave for 10 seconds. Remove your bread from the microwave. Remove it's paper towel covering. The oven method takes longer to soften the bread than the microwave method but works just as well. Steps:. Preheat your oven to 300F (148.8C).
How Do You Soften Hard Bagels
Tear off a piece of aluminum foil large enough to cover and wrap your bread loaf/slice in. Wrap your bread in the aluminum taking care to make sure it is completely covered. Place your foil covered bread into your warm oven for 5-20 minutes.
If you are just heating a slice or small roll, you'll want to warm it for less time (closer to 5 minutes) than if you are warming and remoistening a larger or thicker loaf of bread (closer to 20 minutes). Remove your bread from the oven and allow it to cool within the foil. You'll want to let your bread remoisten inside the foil so that as it cools it doesn't release it's remaining moisture as steam. Serve and eat as soon as it's cool enough to touch. If your bread is really dry, I occasionally dab a couple drops of water along the length of the bread loaf with my fingers. This will help to reincorporate moisture into your loaf beyond just reheating and softening.
If you decide to add water, make sure that you don't over saturate your bread loaf otherwise you'll end up with mushy bread. Start small, you can always add more.
The celery method is preferential for remoistening bags of sliced bread; however, it takes a little bit of foresight since you'll be letting it reabsorb moisture overnight. Steps:.
Soften Hard Bagels
Slide a celery stalk inside your bread loaf bag. Seal or close off your bag. Place your bread bag with celery stalk back into the fridge and let it sit for several hours. I have had the best results when it sits overnight in the fridge. Remove your celery stalk from the bag.
It should be fairly dry and tough by this point having lost most of it's moisture the bread. Actually, my wife buys a dozen loaves at once and we put them in the freezer. When we need one, we take it out and put it on one of the counters, but on trivet to let air circulate around the bottom too.
Soften Bagel
All this is done in the original wrapper, except for French bread which we cut in half and freeze them separately in those large zippered bags. Once thawed we find the original fresh condition is returned, with the bread just the same as it was when it went into the freezer. Day old bread will again be day old. Oven fresh bread will be oven fresh, and stale bread will still be stale unfortunately.
Refrigeration, on the other hand just seems to ruin a loaf of bread, making it -I don't know - like it's stale or grainy and more course somehow.