How to soften a french baguette? Bought one a couple of days back and its hard as a rock now :(?

Question

Bought a fresh baked baguette. Not frozen or refrigerated.

I put it on the counter top.

Answer 1

moisten a paper bag thouroghly and put in oven on low heat.

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Cut fresh bread with a hot knife.
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Warm hot dog buns in top of double boiler, while wieners cook in the bottom.
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Stale rolls can be revived if you spray them lightly with cold water, place in a paper bag or wrap in foil and warm in a 375 F oven for about five minutes.
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Re-heat stale buns and rolls by placing them in a wet brown paper bag and putting it in the oven at 350 F for seven to ten minutes.
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Don’t throw away a stale loaf of bread. Wrap it in a damp cloth for about a minute, then place in preheated 350 F oven for about 20 minutes. Serve warm.
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Save all leftover bread trimmings and crusts. Put them in a plastic bag and freeze. When you have accumulated enough, use for making bread crumbs, croutons or stuffings.
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To freshen dry bread, rolls or doughnuts, place in a covered casserole and place casserole in pan of hot water. Heat thoroughly in the oven.
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Make your own croutons. Butter both sides of two or three slices of bread, season as desired and cut into small cubes. Set cubes on cookie sheet and heat them in a 375 F oven
for about 15 minutes or until lightly browned.
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If you run out of bread crumbs, you can use dry cereals by putting them through a blender or food processor.
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To make bread crumbs, place pieces on dry bread into a plastic bag and roll with a rolling pin.
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Make up bread crumbs ahead of time and store for months in plastic bag or container in the freezer.
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Keep crackers in the sugar canister to keep sugar from caking.
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To deter mold, wash your bread box with a mixture of two tbsp. vinegar to a quart of water.

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Answer 2

Soften Baguette

Answer 3

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RE:
How to soften a french baguette? Bought one a couple of days back and its hard as a rock now :(?

Answer 4

If your French bread is extremely hard, then it is basically stale and past its prime for eating. However, you might be able to slice it an use it for a variety of recipes, such as French toast. You also could cut it up into small pieces, mix it with olive oil and Italian herbs, and bake it until brown to make croutons. Another open is chopping it up and putting it into a food processor to create homemade bread crumbs. Keep in mind that fresh bread has a very short shelf life and the recipes that I mentioned above usually use bread that is only a day old. Anything that is older than a day should simply be thrown out.

Answer 5

I would use it for wiffle ball and buy a new baguette. Baguette's are not meant to be kept for a couple of days, they really should be eaten right away. Maybe you could make french toast with it!

Answer 6

in France we eat it very fast, one day or one and a half ( I know we eat a lot of bread)

the capacity to preserve it depends of its quality, bread is prepared with congealed dough eat it in the day (and it is not as good).

to preserve it longer, put it in a cotton bag, in a kitchen cupboard.
or in paper bag but never plastic.
baguette is the kind of bread you have to eat the fastest. if you can find bigger French bread, we call the "boules" they will be easier to preserve (but there is more to eat)

to soften it the microwave or the oven could be a solution, but it will have a nasty taste. when the bread is hard, the taste change, if it began to be green, it is really not good. you will have a nasty blob, which will began more hard in quarter an hour, hot bread is good only if it was just made by the baker.

My advice : don't eat it, if a baguette is too much eat it with more people.

Answer 7

Microwave.

Answer 8

May I ask, how did you store it? Did you place it in the ref or freezer? On the kitchen counter?

Answer 9

it's stale. turn it into bread crumbs.

Answer 10

Just heat it up in the oven!