||This article needs additional citations for verification. (May
2009)| A breadbox (chiefly American) or a bread bin (chiefly
British) is a container for storing bread and other baked goods
to keep them fresh. They were a more common household kitchen
item until bread started being made commercially with food
preservatives and wrapped in plastic. Breadboxes are still used
by many people to store commercially purchased bread, but are
used more especially by people who bake bread at home. Newer
ones are usually made of metal. In the past they were often made
of wood or sometimes pottery (pottery breadboxes are also called
bread crocks). Old breadboxes can be collectible antiques.
Breadboxes are most commonly big enough to fit one or two
average size loaves of bread—about 12 inches wide by 6 inches
high and deep (30 cm x 15 cm x 15 cm). Working theory  Bread
does not go stale by "drying out"—stale "dry" bread weighs the
same as moist "fresh" bread, indicating almost no loss of water.
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