The best way to keep homemade bread fresh is to bake it, let it cool, then place it in the freezer.
The reason why we need to put it in the freezer is that the moment we take the bread out of the oven it starts to lose its moisture.
Starch retrogradation is the chemical reaction that changes the structure of starch molecules and forces water out of the bread.
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