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Freezing bread will pretty much stop the growth of mold and the process of staling. Very cold temperatures (below zero degrees Fahrenheit) are best. There is some slow degradation of the bread due to enzyme activity, but frozen bread will keep for a very long time.

Do NOT store bread in the refrigerator, however! Starch in fresh-baked bread is in a gel-like state. Bread gets hard when it stales not because it's drying out, but because the long starch molecules are gradually binding to each other and forming a hard matrix. This process happens fastest at around fifty degrees Fahrenheit, which is about the temperature of most people's refrigerators, so storing bread in a refrigerator is one of the fastest ways possible to make it go stale. The staling process also uses water, so avoid excess moisture inside the bag used to store your bread.

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