Your Grandma was smart! I don’t mind the ends but they poof out over the side of the pan so it’s not easy to slice thin for a sandwich. I cube it up at the end of the week and throw it in the freezer until I have enough for pudding. This is a great way to use up some eggs too!My no knead bread was cooked in the Dutch Oven I bought. It was great bread. It never lasted long enough to go moldy. With commercial store-bought bread, we cut it up into little pieces and put it into the chicken bucket, a little bit each day as a treat depending on how much old bread there is.
When I was little kid, grandma used to make it a special thing to see who would get the "special" end crust. You felt lucky if you "won" the end crust. To this day, I still eat those end pieces and consider myself lucky!
Grandma was good about getting us to eat all kinds of food. Whenever we got something new on the table that we did not recognize, we would ask grandma if we liked it. "Oh yes, you liked it a lot last time we had this," she would say. Of course, that was the standard line even if it was the first time we had that food.
I tried to make croutons with left over bread and it did not turn out very good. I should probably give that another try. That bread pudding sounds tasty. We don't really use breadcrumbs for anything in our house. I would certainly like to explore other options first, rather than giving left over bread to the chickens. But almost none of our leftover food or scraps gets wasted now that we have backyard chickens.
We don’t use crumbs often either, mostly in meatloaf because the fam doesn’t like it with oatmeal.
Vevor Products Warning
Anyways, I saw that YouTube video on the Vevor company which I previously thought was so good. Maybe it's not...?
Speaking of returns, I bought all my Ryobi tools at Home Depot because if a unit should fail within the warranty period, you just brought it back to the store for an exchange. Not anymore. HD will not take tool returns [EDIT: for the full 5-year warranty period] in store anymore. You have to call up and work it out with the company. If you have to ship something back to them, it might end up costing you more money than it's worth.
This past summer I had a $80.00 multi-port battery charger fail on me within the warranty period. I called Ryobi, many times, before I finally got through on like the 3rd or 4th day. The rep walked me through some troubleshooting, determined the unit was malfunctioning, and just sent me out a brand-new unit. I did not have to pay to have the old unit shipped back to them. So, that was a win for me because the new charger is an upgrade from the model I had purchased. Sometimes you get lucky.
FWIW, I always register my tools online with Ryobi and I think that helps if/when you need to make a warranty claim. In the ~20 years I have been buying Ryobi tools, I have only had 2 items fail within the warranty period and Ryobi took care of me, no problems. I am happy to say that I am still using the tools in my first kit I bought 20 years ago. That's a value purchase!
