An easy trick to revive stale bread in minutes (2024)

Have you ever craved a nice slice of bread, only to find out that the loaf in your cupboard has gone stale?

Well, what if we were to tell you that there’s a simple way to revive that stale loaf… using water.

Yep, by dousing the loaf, or baguette, with water and popping it in the oven, that once stale loaf becomes as good as new - or at least perfectly tasty again.

“Take your bread, and run it under a tap, or immerse it completely in water,” says Cher Loh, Head Tutor at the Good Housekeeping Institute Cookery School. “This rehydrates the bread.”

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"Then stick it in the oven at 200°C (180°C fan) for a few minutes, and your bread will miraculously be edible once more."

It’s important to remember that this will work with an unsliced loaf only, so don’t go trying to soak a pre-sliced supermarket one.

And this trick will only work once, so after you’ve revived your loaf you won’t be able to do it again.

Oh, and if you see any mould growing it’s time to throw that bread away and buy yourself some new…

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