Community Chat

[Sooner]

If you have had moldy bread in the bread box, mold spores may be lingering in there and making new bread mold.  Might check that out online and see if that's possible.

I have always heard not to keep bread in the fridge, that it gets stale faster and I'd agree with that.  So try keeping the bread in a different place with more air circulation.  

Also, your store may be selling old bread.  At least in the "olden days" around here, the bread ties and clips that close it were colored, and those corresponded to the day of the week it was delivered.  Look online or ask the store manager.

If the loaf feels heavy when you pick it up, it is getting older, so maybe you are simply getting older loaves from the store to begin with!  Talk to the manager. 

[leighagemini]

Thanks everyone.  I never checked to see if the packaging says "preservative free" or not (it does), so my fault. Will start keeping in the fridge.

[Mistreatedbycs]

....and just because you keep it in the frig, that doesn't mean it won't mold over time either.   I bought whole grain english muffins which are also preservative free and after 6-8 wks, i had a bag of mold too.

If you are so bread eaters, someone said the freezer and that's the best place to keep it.

[gidgetgh]

My husband eats Nature's Own and we've always kept it in the refrigerator. We haven't had any issues with smell or mold. 

[SilleeMee]

I've always kept my breads in the fridge or the freezer since I can remember. My mom did it, too. I guess it was a way to keep the bugs out back then. Growing up, we lived in places where there were roaches.

[tonyhary]

Not sure where you are from but this is new to me here in Danbury CT and the first time I have come accross the issue. I was beginning to think I was going insane at first because the smell is so unique and sometimes so faint that I wasnt even sure there was a smell. I have for years purchased Natures own wheat and honey wheat so when my daughter picked up Natures own butter bread I thought maybe the smell  was normal. I threw out the remaining loaf and picked up my honey wheat and the smell was worst.!!! Now thru web search I see this has been happening for some years...??? what???  Im done, this is not normal.