Keeping Bread Fresh

one of the benefits of running a fridge as a freezer.you store bread and it will last as long as it takes to eat it.
just remove a few slices at a time as required.
regards
Howard

Hi John,

I find that unsliced bread stays fresh longer than sliced. There's also something basic and comforting about cutting-off a good thick slice with a bread-knife.

Also I think wholemeal, wholegrain or light rye breads keep longer than white.

I really like cooking bread in the camp oven but yes there can be weight issues if it is cast iron.Mine is spun steel and a bit lighter.

On trips like that we have rice crackers. Nice with ham and cheese or sliced boiled egg with mayo.

G'day John,

It may not suit you, but I use flat mountain bread. It comes in a resealable plastic bag and prior to opening will last for months......makes great wraps.

Have a great trip.
Paul

Hi John

Remeber bread is destroyed by oxygen.

Get standard sliced loaves as they have preservatives , not cheap loaves.

Open pack and suck out air such that pack collapses but not so much as to compress the bread excessively.

Reseal - this way it will last a lot longer , and with care over two weeks, if you keep cool as well.

P.S. Check to make sure pack doesn't leak and suck back its air - sometimes you have to put a second bag over it to seal.

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Another vote for mountain bread and crackers

Hi John

Agree with Paul the Mountain bread is the go will stay fresh for months and they make great wraps. Also if you're after an easy breakfast try the Uncle Tobys Oats in the quick sachets (original flavour) use powdered milk pour on the boiling water stir with maple syrup and it will keep you going till morning tea.
Safe travels
Cheers
Rick P

Try using a sour dough type of bread. We use Paolo's Artisan Bakery (an offshoot of Riviera bakery) here in Adelaide. They can get a bit chewy by the end of the trip, but OK as toast.

We use flat breads/wraps for lunches, as has been suggested by others. The wraps, made before we break camp & wrapped in gladwrap, are beaut, tasty, easy to eat and very convenient whilst on the move.


ASFAIK, sliced white bread uses heaps of glycerine, which gives that fresh sensation for as long as it does.

BTW, interested why you can't carry a camp oven
- don't forget that Bedouries are camp ovens also.

G'day John,

Mate, big call not to take the camp oven on the CSR. We had a couple of loaves each for each of the three vehicles to start the CSR but also made the odd damper every few nights.
The packet bread packs you can get in supermarkets was excellent. It comes in a big box like a cereal box but the bread is pre-mixed and in sachels. You mix wate with the ingredients, let them sit for a couple of hours then put them into the camp overn. Every second night we had beautiful fresh white buns cooked in the camp oven with a cooked meal.

There is plenty of wood which can be gathered prior to the popular camp sites and it is not to much of a bother to cook some fresh bread rolls in the oven next to the main fire.

Have a good trip, don't forget the margerine for your breadrolls.

Regards
Will

Everyone, keep them coming!! Great suggestions. It's a great Forum, ExOz.

Cheers.

Gday John,
We store 2 loaves of multigrain bread in a cake tin. It keeps the light out and the bread lasts about 2 weeks.

Cryovac the bread before you leave home. They have a special bread container the size of a standard loaf. It will stay perfectly fresh till you open it. Then you can use the containers again for something else, while you are away once they are opened.

Surely three weeks supply of supermarket bread would weigh about as much as a medium sized campoven and take up more space! How could you travel that track without a camp oven!? Think of the entertainment value of cooking in a camp oven apart from the lovely meals. Leave the TV and generator at home, carry an axe instead of a chainsaw and scrounge for firewood - carry a few heatbeads for emergencies if you are worried!
As well as mountain bread which is useful practice making those beaut Indian flat breads you make in a frying pan. Yum. Pancakes are also great, as is porrige.
Any bread that keeps for 3 weeks must be made of plastic! Why would you eat it? It is great to try different foods when camping - you don't have to always eat what you eat at home! Have a great trip. Lynne

Two adults, 4 kids in HJ60 for 3 weeks on the CSR. You find room to put stuff. The kids had boxes with vegies in them as footrests for several days, they coped. Use normal bread until it runs out, Ryvita and all those types of crispy things were fine for lunches etc. Get the camp oven in, you can do so much in it. Put paper plates over the normal ones to reduce the wash up water needed, think through all the items you are taking and ask -do I really need this? Do this exercise a few time because each time stuff gets culled.The missus went through our stuff to the point of removing all unecessary packaging so things could be stored in convenient spots etc etc. It is fun, especially when you are looking for it!!! HInt -- write lists of what is where.

Hi JB

When we go "out bush" we buy those mountain wraps - come in a pack of about 8 with one of those little "do not eat" fresh packages in them. You can buy wheat ones, rice, oat ect ect about $4 from coles last for ages.

Cheers
Caz

Al ways learning something. This Mountain bread I was wondering what it was and did a search to find that I have used it in the past ie. eggs, bacon and fried tomatoes off the bbq plate wrapped up in a hot slice of mountain bread... yummy. But I'd never thought about it for a long life option.

I was just reading through the recipes on the Mountain Bread site... god I'm hungry.

John,

Tortillas are great They come in sealed bags and keep for months.

White, soft and delicious: hot or cold.

Cheers,

Jim.

hi john
i took unsliced grain bread on the csr and just kept it at fridge temp ok in engel til gone
but i've found the mountain b/ wraps much more convenient as they take up zilch spaceand tasty
but if you take your c/oven it has multi uses

and if you put the right doh in yr camp oven

who neads bread ????
cheers

Inverter, and cheap small bread machine??

Or spun steel camp oven, lighter, and make up bread mix at lunch, let it sit in the warm car whilst driving, knock down a few times, then put in oven at night.

Or use ryvitas.

Trains

Get the supermarket bread, slightly open and push most of the air out.

Then totally cover the bread and plastic wrapper in aluminium foil. Then warap in newspaper. Will keep for 2 weeks. You will be amaized how fresh it is.

No need for refrigeration either.

Small Breadmaker, 400 watt, runs nicely off a 600 watt rectifier, and the smell whilst cooking, mmmmmm. Run it whilst travelling, doesn't affect vehicle batteries.

Doing the Gibson Desert via Anne Bedell in September then to Ulluru, fresh bread all the way. I do make damper though, without an oven, either in aluminum foil or straight in the coals, when its cooked just dust it off.

Big Al