Nov 23, 2008 10:10 pm US/Pacific
Buy It And Try It: Debbie Meyers Bread Bags
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ―
The Debbie Meyers Bread Bags say they'll dramatically extend the life of your favorite breads. Let's see if it works.
Cynthia Torres teaches Culinary Arts Management at Consumnes River College. She and her class have already tried the Debbie Meyers Green Bags and Cold Cuts Bags. They loved the green bags, saying they worked well on fruits and produce, but they say the Cold Cut Bags didn't keep meat fresh longer.
They've spent the past week and a half trying out Debbie's latest invention, the Bread Bags.
"Bread goes bad very quickly," Cynthia said, normally in about four days.
So at $3.49 a loaf, she's excited about the claim that the Bread Bags will keep it fresh longer.
Cynthia's got all of her favorite bread for our tests: Bagels, naan pocket bread, freshly backed scones and French bread. She divides it up, half going into the bread bags, half staying in the original packaging.
She slides the bread inside, and then folds the top, putting our samples on a tray and storing them. The box shows an example of bread being fresh after 11 days, so we came back 11 days later.
First, we start with the French bread. The store bag bread is obviously moldy, but so is the French loaf in the Bread Bags.
"It's exactly the same," Cynthia said.
Moving onto the bagels, the original bag bagels are hard, but still appear edible. When we check the Bread Bags, the bagels are a bit softer.
"They look nice," Cynthia said. "For the bagels, they seem to have worked."
Both of the scone samples have both hardened and appear the same, and the naan pocket bread samples are also both harder.
Cynthia kept her eye on the samples during our 11 day test, and says that aside from the bagels, it doesn't appear the Bread Bags keep all bread fresh longer.
Her advice?
"Buy the bread, put it in the freezer, keep it fresh like that, and save your money," she said.
I paid $9.95 for 10 large reusable bags and two for French bread, and bought it at AsSeenOnTVGuys.com
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