Stinking bread...what to do?

[bookworm65t]

Never had a problem till now.

To save money and time, I tend to buy a lot of bread and store the excess in my freezer. Been doing it for years with no problem. Until last month, when the the thawed bread started smelling like magic markers. I tried taking the bread out of its package into a new plastic bag, but that is not working. I checked my bread box, but that seems to be OK.

Does anyone have any ideas? I checked the web, but I haven't run into a solution.

Thanks

#1 :wtf:

[Swede]

1. Maybe it's freezer burned?

use it as bread crumbs

[bookworm65t]

2. Baffled

That's what I can't figure. I been doing this for years with no trouble. Now I have an issue with it.

[Orsino]

3. An experiment.

Buy a different brand of bread, and place it in the freezer next to a bag of your usual bread (contained in another, outer bag that you seal carefully.

This could tell you whether it's the bags your bread comes in, or something in the freezer compartment.

[Wapsie B]

4. Maybe the bakery of the bread you buy changed the ingredients?

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Magic markers is a pretty strong chemical smell and bread is porous so it

would definitely take on an odor pretty easily. I do wonder if it might be something in the freezer itself. :(

I like the suggestion another DUer gave you about testing with different brands of bread. Maybe it really is the bread you are buying after all? Preservatives or something that don't like to be frozen?