Freezing and re-heating Ciabatta bread

"Jenny Taylor" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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About a month ago on Berts show they mentioned Ciabatta bread and every since then I've been
hooked on it ! 🙂

I live a long way from the only bakery in the area that sells Ciabetta bread so I have to buy in
lots to last me a week.

So I'm forced to freeze it.

The woman in the bakery suggested after freezing to place the bread in a pre-heated oven on high
for about 10 minutes.

Seems to work ok, but wondering if there's a better method.

I've tried using the microwave but bread always seems to come out soggy even although I've heard
people having success reheating Ciabatta in this sort of oven.

You are an idiot.

Darkfalz said:

"Jenny Taylor" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Pardon? What was that for?

Why are you posting to a TV group about methods of reheating frozen bread?

If you read the post in the first place you would have seen that she saw the original siory on GMA
on Network 10, a TV show. Fair call.

Ihave been known to freeze ciabatta on many occassions, many breads actually, and I find that
just leaving it out to defrost naturally without applying any heat works well. If you want that
warm crusty vibe then heat it in a moderate, not hot, (120-150deg) oven for about 10 minutes .
If you want it not too crusty and a bit soggier, wrap it in foil. Never use a microwave. They're
un-natural!

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peeby

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Ihave been known to freeze ciabatta on many occassions, many breads actually, and I find that just
leaving it out to defrost naturally without applying any heat works well.

Except you have to wait for it to thaw that way.

Actually, half thawed bread into the toaster produces nice results, toased on the outside and fluffy
on the inside.

Darkfalz said:

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Ihave been known to freeze ciabatta on many occassions, many breads actually, and I find that
just leaving it out to defrost naturally without applying any heat works well.

Except you have to wait for it to thaw that way.

Patience is a virtue. Just you wait and see.

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Actually, half thawed bread into the toaster produces nice results, toased on the outside and
fluffy on the inside.

Agreed. I have been known to hack into the odd half frozen loaf for toast like that too.

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peeby

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Agreed. I have been known to hack into the odd half frozen loaf for toast like that too.

Frozen bread is easier to slice than fresh bread!

Darkfalz said:

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Agreed. I have been known to hack into the odd half frozen loaf for toast like that too.

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Frozen bread is easier to slice than fresh bread!

And it's chewier too.

"Darkfalz"

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You are an idiot.

And I bet you're a legend in your own mirror aren't you clown?

Nat

The Improved Charmed One said:

"Darkfalz"

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You are an idiot.

And I bet you're a legend in your own mirror aren't you clown?

Nat

"Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspects of their ges-
tures, their meaningless pantomime, makes silly everything that surrounds them. A man is talking on
the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him, but you see his incomprehensible dumb
show. You wonder why he is alive. This discomfort in the face of man's own inhumanity, this incalc-
ulable tumble before the image of what we are, this 'nausea' is called the absurd. Likewise the st-
ranger who at certain moments comes to meet us in the mirror, the familiar and yet alarming brother
we encounter in our own photograph, is also the absurd."
-- Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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[>In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] (peebs) wrote:]

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Quoted message said:

Ihave been known to freeze ciabatta on many occassions, many breads actually, and I find that
just leaving it out to defrost naturally without applying any heat works well.

Except you have to wait for it to thaw that way.

Actually, half thawed bread into the toaster produces nice results, toased on the outside and
fluffy on the inside.

We like the results we get by taking frozen bread out of the freezer and leaving it sealed in its
bag on the counter until the bread has fully thawed. It doesn't take that long really.

To reheat (and recrust) the bread, we preheat the oven to 500F. Then we turn the oven OFF and put
the bread in the oven for ten minutes.

(Even if we had a microwave oven, we wouldn't use it to thaw bread.)

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ejmorris aka llizard llizard@idirec+.ca Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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(Even if we had a microwave oven, we wouldn't use it to thaw bread.)

It's a good way to make mini toasts which are soggy on the underside.

"EJM" <[email hidden]> wrote in

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In article <[email hidden]>, "Darkfalz"
<[email hidden]> wrote: [email hidden] (peebs) wrote:]

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Quoted message said:

Ihave been known to freeze ciabatta on many occassions, many breads actually, and I find that
just leaving it out to defrost naturally without applying any heat works well.

Except you have to wait for it to thaw that way.

Actually, half thawed bread into the toaster produces nice results, toased on the outside and
fluffy on the inside.

We like the results we get by taking frozen bread out of the freezer and leaving it sealed in its
bag on the counter until the bread has fully thawed. It doesn't take that long really.

To reheat (and recrust) the bread, we preheat the oven to 500F. Then we turn the oven OFF and put
the bread in the oven for ten minutes.

(Even if we had a microwave oven, we wouldn't use it to thaw bread.)

no, but if bread is a little stale about 10 seconds in the microwave will freshen it up!

Herc