Why does knäckebröd easily get soft in the summer?

We are often get asked why knäckebröd becomes soft and how to store your knäckebröd properly. What many people experience when it is hot and humid is that knäckebröd can become soft. It is natural that a knäckebröd will be soft if you have not stored it dry, i.e. well sealed. Compare the properties of a knäckebröd with a regular soft white bread, which is allowed to lie in front a little too long, and you see that these bread will change in different ways. An ordinary white bread contains large amounts of moisture, while a knäckebröd is dry. What happens then is that nature wants to equalize the difference between the content of the bread and its surroundings, which leads to the dry knäckebröd absorbing moisture from the air while the soft white bread emits moisture. The result is that hard bread becomes soft, and the white bread becomes hard if they are allowed to lie in front and not stored correctly.

Knäckebröd should always be stored dry and well sealed.

When does knäckebröd get too old to eat?

Knäckebröd is a fantastic product. Knäckebröd is healthy, tasty and can be stored indefinitely without changing the quality of the bread. A "Best for-date" on knäckebröd should be seen more as a quality marker from the bakery. The product retains the same characteristics such as taste, colour and elasticity as the baking day. A knäckebröd could be stored for a long time, which means that it should be kept dry. So even long after "Best before-date", you can enjoy your knäckebröd. On knäckebröd packaging, producers usually put this "Best before-date" between 6 - 12 months. The variation depends on the content. There are no ingredients in a traditional knäckebröd that could make it unfit to eat. What can happen is that knäckebröd containing seeds or any other seasoning can drop in taste, and it is a long time after "Best Before Date" has passed.

With us, knäckebröd never gets old, only cheaper!

The products we bring into our online store must have a Best Before-date that is at least six months ahead of time before the knäckebröd arrives at our warehouse. One month before the product passes its Best Before-date, the product receives a mark about Short Date, and the price is reduced by 15-25%. When the Best Before date has passed, we will mark the product with the Passed date –Sale. Another 15-25% reduction of the price will occur. In the menu on the home page under Short date, you will find the knäckebröds where we have currently lowered the price when they are approaching or have passed best before date: Short date

Because the reason that knäckebröd is so storable, it is an excellent bread to have at home. Make sure to have different kinds of knäckebröd at home, which are suitable for slightly different dishes and toppings, and you always have access to good and healthy bread. If you want to try any new variety but are unsure, you can click on the reviews and see what others thought about this particular knäckebröd.