How to soften hard bread in the oven
If you want to recover the original features of the PAN, this classic option will love it, since it is very easy and also its result is proven.- The oven preheats. Place the oven at 230 ° C and wait 5 minutes before entering the bread.
– Bread moistens if the bark is hard. If the bread is dry but the cortex does not feel so hard, you can skip this step because those pieces of bread still retain moisture, since the starch molecules bind and catch the water, so you can pass directly to the next step. On the contrary, if the bark is very hard, you must moisten the bread by immersing it and cold water completely for 4 seconds or placing it under the cold water of the tap.
– Wraps bread on aluminum foil. Once the PAN has moistened, cover it completely with aluminum foil. With this you avoid the loss of steam during baking, as humidity within the bread is trapped.
– Bake the bread. Enter the Bread moistened in the oven and, once inside, lowers the temperature of 230 ° C to 150 ° C (300 ° F). Bake the bread for 5 minutes if it is a small piece (dry or little wet). Instead, if bakes a large bar, and/or wetter, you can leave it from 6 minutes to 15 minutes.
– Verify the texture of the bread before removing it from the oven. Since the baked time varies according to the size of the bread bar, the amount of water it absorbed and the peculiarities of your oven, check every 5 minutes withdrawing part of the aluminum foil and verifying its texture. Continue like this until you achieve the desired texture.
– Consume the bread soon. During the baking, heat undoes the structure of starch molecules in order to release the water that is trapped. Consequently, bread softens but for a short time, since its hardening process is also accelerated. For this reason, the effect achieved with the bread only lasts a few hours, so you should preferably eat it just take it out of the oven.
In this way, you will have hard bread as just made, youll see! But if you want to know the keys to obtain a spongy bread from the beginning, assuming that your hard bread is due to a baked or kneaded error, do not miss our article on how to make homemade bread.
What to do with hard bread
If after applying the previous methods the final result does not just convince you, you can always take advantage of the hard bread by rating it, roasting or cutting it into cubes to fry them and obtain some homemade pictures. Likewise, the following recipes are sure that you love:- Bread pudin
– Grandma Torrijas
– Onion soup with bread
