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Stale bread isn't dry: its starch has quietly turned back into crystals
Bread left on the counter turns hard and crumbly, and it looks like it dried out. It mostly didn't. In 1852 Jean-Baptiste Boussingault showed that bread sealed…
Food Science
4 min read
27 Sep