Walked into a bakery in Nashville that used cake boxes for bread storage

I stopped by this place called Loveless Cafe last month and their pastry case had loaves of sourdough just sitting in those white cardboard cake boxes. Not even bread bags. They were stacked three high and the boxes were all bent and sagging. The crust on those loaves had to be leathery after a few hours. Why would a bakery that serves hundreds of people a day not invest in proper bread bins or paper bags? Has anyone else seen this weird storage shortcut and had to bite your tongue?

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rowanellis21d ago

Those cake boxes being all bent and sagging" sounds about right, I read somewhere that bakeries do this sometimes because proper bread bins cost too much. Doesn't make it right though, that crust definitely ends up tough.

oliver_wilson4921d ago

Blame @rowanellis for calling it out, but yeah, those flimsy boxes ruin the whole crust. Bakeries know it too, they just cut corners to save a buck. A real bread bin would fix the texture in one day.