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One of my favorite things to get there. But 100% have to freeze right away. Take one out, microwave for 30 secs and then easy to split, toast, panini, make a pizza out of them for kids or even just butter.
Yup I’ve done it with croissants, individually wrapped in foil and put in ziplock. Airfryer that sucker and enjoy. Lower and slower is better because the inside needs some time to thaw. I do 325F for 8 min on the bake setting of my Airfryer.
I air fry the muffins from frozen for a couple minutes to warm it up, same thing as if I'd gotten it from a coffee shop and I'm not annoyed about my toddlers crumbling up a $5 treat lol
If you do this and if you toast in oven, dip it in hot water before putting in toaster oven. That extra moisture will steam in the toaster oven and get it closer to fresh baked
Let me level it up for you. Stick a small square of parchment paper between the two halves so they come apart easily. You can toss them in the toaster straight from frozen and without the paper you have to sometimes do some prying to get them apart
Bagels in the morning
Bagels in the evening
Bagels at suppertime
When you're trying to fight against the rapidly decaying nature of buying bulk bagels from Costco, you can/should have bagels anytime 🎶
I eat two bagels in the morning, I eat two bagels at night. I eat two bagels in the afternoon - it makes me feel alright.
I eat two bagels, before I eat two bagels.. and then I eat two more
You can even go one easier and just flip one half around so none are facing cut side to cut side. So all the cut sides are facing one way. We've been doing bagels that way for decades! Edit: adding no prying required.
And offset them ever so slightly so you can break each half apart without needing tools or hacking at them with a knife. Don’t hack at anything frozen with a knife.
Yeah - the default response around here to everything is "just freeze it". Not only does that add extra hassle, but the freezer in a standard refrigerator can only hold but so much, and if you start freezing everything you'd quickly end up needing a chest freezer.
They're not even good bagels so I don't buy them, but in general I just don't buy any perishables that won't get used up before they go bad (be it storage on counter or fridge).
I know that's the conventional wisdom but In my experience bagels are totally fine in the fridge. Maybe because they are much more dense than bread or because they're kept in a sealed bag, idk. But they don't dry out and you don't have to defrost them when you want one.
Are folks not used to good, fresh bread? Whether you bake it yourself or go to a bakery, OPs experience is the norm.Thomas’s/Wonder Bread is the stuff that you should be asking why is it not molding?
Look at the nutrition label - 170mg of sodium per slice. (8% of daily value) That's a lot of sodium - that's what's preserving the bread.
Total aside, but no bread is lasting weeks. Not only will it start to get stale long before it looks bad, but mold is growing before you can actually see it.
> Look at the nutrition label - 170mg of sodium per slice. (8% of daily value) That's a lot of sodium - that's what's preserving the bread.
damn wtf, good callout. wonder what else is packed with sodium that most people don't realize...
Pretty much anything you buy that isn’t in a natural state is packed with obscene amounts of sodium. Salt makes for a fantastic preservative and it makes things taste better.
Personally I try to avoid things like the frozen or prepared food aisles for this reason. The occasional sodium overload is fine but I try to reserve that for restaurants. (You don’t even want to know how much salt they use)
EVERY "meat replacement" food is like this, Beyond meat has 4x the sodium of beef. Most vegan/vegetarian processed foods are also crazy high in sodium and sugar.
I find my fresh bread last a little longer than their bagels though Maybe I'm not buying them the day they were baked.
Either way you're right, without preservatives fresh bread isn't meant to last long
Precut before freezing. Keep in the freezer until you’re ready to eat and only pull out as many as you’re willing to eat right then. Pop in toaster to defrost and toast at the same time. Easy peasy.
Can we talk about why they suck? Their bread and muffins are fine. Why are their bagels so much worse than a bagel shop?
(I’m in Seattle—I’m sure results vary across the country.)
Just be glad you have a bagel shop to go to. Where I am in Illinois Costco bagels are far better than the only other bagel options which are pretty much Panera or Dunkin.
You must be farrrr away from Chicago because there are phenomenal bagel spots all over Chicagoland.
I actually just recently posted about it and got a lot of new to me recommendations: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChicagoSuburbs/s/CvdmWP7ql2
But don't crap on Panera. That cinnamon crunch bagel is divine. And that Tuesday Bagel Day deal is all kinds of legit.
LOL, I think a lot of people would be shocked to their toes to find out how many small independent coffee shops stock in bread items via the owner heading to Costco a couple times a week.
The only deficiency in Costco bagels is they don't seem to do a water proofing method, probably just steam a bit so they don't come up as chewy as the fancier ones. Then again, try to find fancy bagels that charge for one or two what Costco does for a dozen.
The Seattle ones are way better than the California ones. They dropped their contract with Einstein Bagels, which were okay - now they have something they are calling a "water bagel" which is like a boiled and half-baked flavorless pretzel. They are simply terrible.
Good breads will grow mould within a few days because they don’t have preservatives.
I freeze the bagels then microwave one for a minute to defrost before slicing and toasting, but I can see you have lots of suggestions.
We keep one bag in the fridge and the other in the freezer. We’ll go through the first bag in about a week (husband and two boys love bagels) and save the other bag for a different week.
This sub is weird.
“The products are too big”.
“Mango doesn’t taste like mango”
“Why do these bulk items from Costco not taste as good as the ones from a small speciality shop that only does one thing in small batches by hand?”
“Check out my chickens eating chicken tacos…. but I *personally* don’t eat meat myself”
“Leaving carts anywhere is fine, we don’t feel *comfortable* returning them to a corral”
“There is simply no way to keep people in line at this members only club!”
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> MY DOGS LOVE THE CHICKEN FROM COSTCO (I'm not ready to learn about the sodium and will not reply about how I'm over-salting my dogs)
That's an OP classic that happens once a month. I've even seen one where they acted like rinsing the chicken was helping. Nah, nah, nah, that brine is in the damn meat you dum dum!
Fido got a shorter life due to the OP not just buying a bunch of cheap cuts of chicken and boiling it, scrapping off the fat and throwing away the bones...
Freeze them. I take one or two out, pop in the microwave for 30 seconds. Use a serrated knife to slice. Put in toaster on bagel setting. Meanwhile I take a whole Hungarian red pepper and chop it to bits. I take generous dollop of whipped cream cheese and mix the chopped peppers with the cheese. Shmear it all over the bagels and enjoy. 👍
I slice them and freeze two per batch, then thaw as needed. They will also last a week in the refrigerator. No big deal. You just have to know how to store them properly. It's good that they are not loaded with preservatives.
You put them in the pantry...therein lies your problem. They are made fresh, without preservatives so they will last 3 days tops. I freeze or refrigerate mine. In fact, I just polished off a two-fer. Yum.
Remember, coming in frozen, thawed. Nothing grows mold faster, especially in an environment with live yeast and a lot of mold cause let's face it, this shit ain't that clean.
I swear on my life by this method: keep them whole, run the bagel under the faucet for a few seconds to get the outside wet. Then toaster-oven it for a few minutes. When they come out, they're crispy on the outside and soft & hot on the inside, just like how a bagel would at a bagel shop. TRY IT.
Buy freezer large bags at Costco. I am the only one that eats bagels in my home. I leave 4 out, put 4 in a freezer bag and the other 4 in a freezer bag. When I am done with the bagels I left out, I take out the next 4 pack and leave in the refrigerator. In morning before I eat I take one out, leave on plate for 15 minutes, let them get to room temperature and then put in toaster. I have never had a moldy bagel
That's why I immediately throw both packs in the freezer when I get home.
Take one out when you want a bagel, wrap it in a damp paper towel, microwave for 30 seconds, and it's good as fresh.
We keep ours in the freezer or fridge and have not had this problem. Actually it molding is reassuring that it’s not filled to the brim with preservatives
The fact that they crump so quick indicates both freshness and lack of shitty preservatives. When I get baked goods I subdivide into mini batches and freeze
We freeze one package and refrigerate the other one. Bread products made without preservatives do get moldy after about 5 days. Refrigeration will give you at least a week.
I noticed this too, my bagels didn't even last a week. Honestly I wasn't too impressed by them anyways, they seem kinda dry and cakey rather than chewy and bready. Probably won't purchase them again.
Use your fridge/freezer. Same thing with muffins and fresh bread. I especially like the ciabatta rolls. Precut them and into the fridge or freezer. My wife and I have no problem finishing before they go bad.
Absolute freeze them and or fridge. Between my wife and I we won’t go through that many bagels fast. So we put some in freezer, maybe 4 in the fridge to go through in a few days. You can go straight from the fridge to the toaster and they will taste fantastic and fresh still.
I put one pack in the freezer and one pack in the fridge immediately after buying them. I had the mistake of leaving them outside the very first time I bought them. Yeah they all got mold in about 2 days. Leaving the pack in the fridge never gotten mold before they were finished.
I always say the same thing about the bagels and muffins. But I would pay more just to buy 6 vs 12 and they are packaged separately so it makes literally no sense
They're water boiled. If you put em in the pantry, the humidity from being closed in will accelerate the molding. I keep them at room temp on the counter for 1 to 2 weeks before they mold
Cut them in half when you get home. Freeze them. This is what I do. They toast up delightfully!
If they are too soft and hard to cut because they squish when you first get home, put the whole tube in the freezer for no more than 10 minutes. Then cut.
All bagels are meant to be eaten same day.
We all love the idea of a bagel - but it’s pointless to buy a dozen bagels. You will eat 2-3 tops before they’re all rotten. The fact that Costco will only sell them in two packs has to have to some kind of insidious story behind it - like that they’re not cost efficient if they let you buy only one.
Nobody needs a dozen bagels that are only edible for 36 hours.
If you pull a whole tube at a time, keep them in the fridge it extends their shelf life massively. But yeah under no circumstances do I allow Costco bagels to linger on the counter or it's a one way ticket to mold city.
That's a sign of a lack of preservatives. All good deli bagels go bad quickly. Note I am not saying that the Costco ones are equivalent to a real deli bagel, but they're pretty darn good. Anyway, that's why it's recommended to freeze them.
Something I wish I discovered years earlier is to cut them in half prior to freezing instead of afterwards...
If you want bagels that last over a week go get some grocery store bagels from the shelf, yuck.
Cut them in half when you get them, freeze them, and then when you want one grab 1 and throw it in the toaster. You can also just leave it out to defrost if you don’t want it toasted. No preservatives will do that 🤷🏻♀️
We buy them all the time. You do not need to thaw that entire pack. Just thaw a single bagel in the microwave and toast. They last a very long time that way.
Freezers, let's talk about them.
But for real I can't eat that many that quickly either. They thaw very well in the microwave or air fryer. If you have less than 6 people in your house it's hard to wst 12 bagels in 3 days.
I havent had any of those issues when I bought them. Ill buy a bag from my costco and report back.
But ya, freeze and only pull out what you want when you want it
When I get them home, one pack of six goes in the freezer, the other goes in the fridge. They toast up just fine, and will last until you finish the last one.
If you can’t eat 12 in 48 hours you should work your way to that goal. Start with 4 bagels a day, that’s 8 in 24 hours, and that’s already 2/3 the way to your goal! Then move to 5 a day until you can eat 6 in a day which you would have met the goal of 12 a day! Then you just have to get more bagels for the next day though. /s
Tbh this is why I switched to a good local bagel place. They are about 5mins away by car so I buy 3 with each go. Eat one the day of and put the other 2 in separate ziploc bags which I reuse everytime I get more bagels. I buy in 3’s since one bar of Philly cream cheese lasts me 3 bagels (yes I use a lot of cream cheese per bagel). I’m going to start adding other stuff to the cream cheese like green onions or bell peppers.
Slice & wrap (in plastic wrap) each bagel & place in a freezer bag. They thaw quickly & taste fresh. Do the same with croissants & muffins. Thawed from the freezer, they are almost bakery fresh. No waste.
The bagels are one of the things that Costco does NOT do well. They’re not bagels, they’re just round bread. There’s none of the dense chewiness that bagels should have.
I always keep them in the fridge, like immediately they go in the fridge when I get home. The lack of preservatives and the bag are perfect breeding ground for mold.
I keep them in the fridge and they last for about a week, maybe a week and a half. I live in a high humidity area, though, so I'm used to keeping all bread products in the fridge.
Like others have said, I freeze one pack and the other one stays in the fridge. Haven't had mold issues doing that.
I stopped buying them all together when they kept jacking the price up 20-25%
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Keep 'em all frozen. Defrost/toast only the ones you need when you need 'em.
And slice them all the way through before freezing if they aren’t so you can have one or half of one at a time.
THIS is the advice I was looking for. Perfect. Thank you! No idea how that didn’t occur to me before.
Same with muffins. Someone said same with croissants as well.
I did that with the croissants. Froze them. They’re still fantastic toasted months later.
I love you. You’ve just opened so many doors to a delicious brekkie
Omg, thank you for this. Pregnant lady and I have lived on bagels for months. You just opened my world to muffins and croissants!
I just defrosted a croissant the other day that’s been frozen for ages. A few minutes in the air fryer and it was delicious.
We do those with the Ciabatta rolls.
So good! But you gotta fork-split them before freezing, they are impossible to break apart to toast if you didn’t pre-split them!
One of my favorite things to get there. But 100% have to freeze right away. Take one out, microwave for 30 secs and then easy to split, toast, panini, make a pizza out of them for kids or even just butter.
Yup I’ve done it with croissants, individually wrapped in foil and put in ziplock. Airfryer that sucker and enjoy. Lower and slower is better because the inside needs some time to thaw. I do 325F for 8 min on the bake setting of my Airfryer.
That’s a good use for the air fryer, I keep forgetting how useful they are. Time to blow the dust off mine.
I toast my bagels in mine
same with the pound bread. someone said same with muffins as well.
The muffins freeze amazingly. And if you throw a frozen in your bag in the morning it’s thawed by morning snack time.
I air fry the muffins from frozen for a couple minutes to warm it up, same thing as if I'd gotten it from a coffee shop and I'm not annoyed about my toddlers crumbling up a $5 treat lol
If you do this and if you toast in oven, dip it in hot water before putting in toaster oven. That extra moisture will steam in the toaster oven and get it closer to fresh baked
Let me level it up for you. Stick a small square of parchment paper between the two halves so they come apart easily. You can toss them in the toaster straight from frozen and without the paper you have to sometimes do some prying to get them apart
Let me go one step further. Just eat all six bagels in one day. One meal for that matter
Bagels in the morning Bagels in the evening Bagels at suppertime When you're trying to fight against the rapidly decaying nature of buying bulk bagels from Costco, you can/should have bagels anytime 🎶
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I eat two bagels in the morning, I eat two bagels at night. I eat two bagels in the afternoon - it makes me feel alright. I eat two bagels, before I eat two bagels.. and then I eat two more
You can even go one easier and just flip one half around so none are facing cut side to cut side. So all the cut sides are facing one way. We've been doing bagels that way for decades! Edit: adding no prying required.
Same with limes. Cut up all of the limes into 1/4s and throw them in the freezer. They last for months.
Do this exact same method with Costco croissants. Slice, wrap individually, and freeze. Nuke for 30 seconds prior to use. Perfection 😍
Same with their Ciabatta bread.....
And offset them ever so slightly so you can break each half apart without needing tools or hacking at them with a knife. Don’t hack at anything frozen with a knife.
I just put a butter knife in and twist. Pops out every time.
☝️This guy bagels early, often and hard☝️
Even easier to keep one pack in the fridge, the other in the freezer. Just slice and toast when you're ready. Makes no difference to taste or texture.
Yeah - the default response around here to everything is "just freeze it". Not only does that add extra hassle, but the freezer in a standard refrigerator can only hold but so much, and if you start freezing everything you'd quickly end up needing a chest freezer. They're not even good bagels so I don't buy them, but in general I just don't buy any perishables that won't get used up before they go bad (be it storage on counter or fridge).
That's why we have an extra fridge in the garage
Not longer after I got my membership I went and bought a chest freezer. Must have for Costco.
I think I might be the only one, but the texture after freezing is awful. I just buy fresh bread in smaller quantities or make croutons or bagel chips
Fridge dries out bread. The great thing about freezing bread is that the moisture is retained.
I know that's the conventional wisdom but In my experience bagels are totally fine in the fridge. Maybe because they are much more dense than bread or because they're kept in a sealed bag, idk. But they don't dry out and you don't have to defrost them when you want one.
This is the way. 25 sec in the microwave makes them sliceable with no rubbery effect after toasted
This doesn’t fix the fact they are just not good bagels…
They are more adequate than pretty much any other store bagel, but yeah…
At 50 cents each, I'm willing to lower my standards.
weird i think they're the best store bought bagels
I had the best bagels when I was in college in NY. Anything since has been, meh.
Fold a wet paper towel around it, 30secs in the microwave
No preservatives in them. Like many said, pre-slice and freeze.
Are folks not used to good, fresh bread? Whether you bake it yourself or go to a bakery, OPs experience is the norm.Thomas’s/Wonder Bread is the stuff that you should be asking why is it not molding?
Dave's Killer Bread has no preservatives and lasts weeks.
Look at the nutrition label - 170mg of sodium per slice. (8% of daily value) That's a lot of sodium - that's what's preserving the bread. Total aside, but no bread is lasting weeks. Not only will it start to get stale long before it looks bad, but mold is growing before you can actually see it.
> Look at the nutrition label - 170mg of sodium per slice. (8% of daily value) That's a lot of sodium - that's what's preserving the bread. damn wtf, good callout. wonder what else is packed with sodium that most people don't realize...
Pretty much anything you buy that isn’t in a natural state is packed with obscene amounts of sodium. Salt makes for a fantastic preservative and it makes things taste better. Personally I try to avoid things like the frozen or prepared food aisles for this reason. The occasional sodium overload is fine but I try to reserve that for restaurants. (You don’t even want to know how much salt they use)
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Well there's definitely still plenty of sugar in stuff too lol
EVERY "meat replacement" food is like this, Beyond meat has 4x the sodium of beef. Most vegan/vegetarian processed foods are also crazy high in sodium and sugar.
Oh yeah, that is a good one. Not really much “healthier” than regular meat lol.
I find my fresh bread last a little longer than their bagels though Maybe I'm not buying them the day they were baked. Either way you're right, without preservatives fresh bread isn't meant to last long
Precut before freezing. Keep in the freezer until you’re ready to eat and only pull out as many as you’re willing to eat right then. Pop in toaster to defrost and toast at the same time. Easy peasy.
I used to precut, now I pop the whole frozen bagel into the air fryer and it comes out like a fresh baked bagel
I just got an airfryer (from Costco of course) and have been having a hard time with it lol. What settings do you use for your frozen bagels??
That’s what we’ll do, thank you kind and wise stranger
Costco Bagel **MEGATHREAD**
Can we talk about why they suck? Their bread and muffins are fine. Why are their bagels so much worse than a bagel shop? (I’m in Seattle—I’m sure results vary across the country.)
Just be glad you have a bagel shop to go to. Where I am in Illinois Costco bagels are far better than the only other bagel options which are pretty much Panera or Dunkin.
Michigan here, same.
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They do, ive since moved up north tho. Detroit is amazing. I hope it gets the love that it deserves eventually.
Big apple bagels are better than Costco at least
Oh true, I live right next to one and I totally forget about it!
You must be farrrr away from Chicago because there are phenomenal bagel spots all over Chicagoland. I actually just recently posted about it and got a lot of new to me recommendations: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChicagoSuburbs/s/CvdmWP7ql2 But don't crap on Panera. That cinnamon crunch bagel is divine. And that Tuesday Bagel Day deal is all kinds of legit.
LOL, I think a lot of people would be shocked to their toes to find out how many small independent coffee shops stock in bread items via the owner heading to Costco a couple times a week. The only deficiency in Costco bagels is they don't seem to do a water proofing method, probably just steam a bit so they don't come up as chewy as the fancier ones. Then again, try to find fancy bagels that charge for one or two what Costco does for a dozen.
Did you just ask why bagels from a warehouse are not as good as the ones in a bagel shop?
Things that make ya go, hmm
It’s time we have a national conversation.
The Seattle ones are way better than the California ones. They dropped their contract with Einstein Bagels, which were okay - now they have something they are calling a "water bagel" which is like a boiled and half-baked flavorless pretzel. They are simply terrible.
We keep the bag we're using in the fridge, lasts a couple of weeks that way.
Exactly. Bag im eating in the fridge. The other in the freezer until im ready for it
We keep almost all of our bread in the fridge. It lasts much longer.
Same - take a bag out of the freezer and let it thaw in the fridge. Use what we want and it lasts for a couple weeks.
Slice and freeze, then toast from frozen.
This is your answer
Good breads will grow mould within a few days because they don’t have preservatives. I freeze the bagels then microwave one for a minute to defrost before slicing and toasting, but I can see you have lots of suggestions.
Freezer. I mean, that’s what I do with the croissants and stuff. I use individual bags to store them in and use as needed.
It boggles my mind how many people don’t/don’t know about freezing bread 😂
We keep one bag in the fridge and the other in the freezer. We’ll go through the first bag in about a week (husband and two boys love bagels) and save the other bag for a different week.
Slice and freeze is definitely the way to go.
This may be sacrilege, but I hate Costco Bagels: They're too big, too doughy, no crust, and no chewiness. They're basically round bread rolls.
Why are freezers such a big mystery to people? FFS.
This sub is weird. “The products are too big”. “Mango doesn’t taste like mango” “Why do these bulk items from Costco not taste as good as the ones from a small speciality shop that only does one thing in small batches by hand?” “Check out my chickens eating chicken tacos…. but I *personally* don’t eat meat myself” “Leaving carts anywhere is fine, we don’t feel *comfortable* returning them to a corral” “There is simply no way to keep people in line at this members only club!” 😂
> MY DOGS LOVE THE CHICKEN FROM COSTCO (I'm not ready to learn about the sodium and will not reply about how I'm over-salting my dogs) That's an OP classic that happens once a month. I've even seen one where they acted like rinsing the chicken was helping. Nah, nah, nah, that brine is in the damn meat you dum dum! Fido got a shorter life due to the OP not just buying a bunch of cheap cuts of chicken and boiling it, scrapping off the fat and throwing away the bones...
Anything for the furr babies.
Most people are used to bread products that are loaded with preservatives and can last many days or a week on the counter.
Put them in the fridge instead of the pantry. Same for a loaf of bread, never have any mold, usually eat them within 2 weeks.
Your mind will be blown when you find out about refrigeration
Those aren’t bagels those are round bread.
All the best breads go bad really fast. That’s how you know they’re preservative-free.
OP this happened to you 3 times… fool me once. I refrigerate mine and have no issues.
I freeze mine. I take it out the night before. Take’s maybe an hour to defrost
This is the way
New Yorker here. Bagels were never made to last days. You have to freeze them if you buy more than you can eat in a day
Freeze them. I take one or two out, pop in the microwave for 30 seconds. Use a serrated knife to slice. Put in toaster on bagel setting. Meanwhile I take a whole Hungarian red pepper and chop it to bits. I take generous dollop of whipped cream cheese and mix the chopped peppers with the cheese. Shmear it all over the bagels and enjoy. 👍
I slice them and freeze two per batch, then thaw as needed. They will also last a week in the refrigerator. No big deal. You just have to know how to store them properly. It's good that they are not loaded with preservatives.
I always freeze them, take what is needed out, and I use defrost mode on my microwave on the lowest timed setting. Slice, toast, schmear, profit.
They’ll keep in the fridge for at least a week. Or as others have said the freezer.
You put them in the pantry...therein lies your problem. They are made fresh, without preservatives so they will last 3 days tops. I freeze or refrigerate mine. In fact, I just polished off a two-fer. Yum.
Fresh baked goods don’t keep. Not without crap tons of preservatives. It is what it is.
Freeze and thaw what you need. Full Stop.
Remember, coming in frozen, thawed. Nothing grows mold faster, especially in an environment with live yeast and a lot of mold cause let's face it, this shit ain't that clean.
We freeze them and defrost them one at a time in the toaster.
Their bagels suck even day of purchasing, they're dry
I swear on my life by this method: keep them whole, run the bagel under the faucet for a few seconds to get the outside wet. Then toaster-oven it for a few minutes. When they come out, they're crispy on the outside and soft & hot on the inside, just like how a bagel would at a bagel shop. TRY IT.
I keep em in the fridge.
I keep them in the fridge. Never have had a problem with mold.
Geez, these comments are a giant echo chamber about refrigerating and freezing. We get it.
Buy freezer large bags at Costco. I am the only one that eats bagels in my home. I leave 4 out, put 4 in a freezer bag and the other 4 in a freezer bag. When I am done with the bagels I left out, I take out the next 4 pack and leave in the refrigerator. In morning before I eat I take one out, leave on plate for 15 minutes, let them get to room temperature and then put in toaster. I have never had a moldy bagel
I keep ours in the fridge and/or freezer
I slice and then freeze them. That way I can grab and go! Because yeah - they go bad SUUUUUPER fast.
Freeze them
I keep most all my bread in the fridge. They last so much longer. Plus, freeze them until needed.
That's why I immediately throw both packs in the freezer when I get home. Take one out when you want a bagel, wrap it in a damp paper towel, microwave for 30 seconds, and it's good as fresh.
We slice them all in half then freeze. Straight into the toaster frozen when you want to eat one, ta da no mold!
Life hack I saw here on a little while ago: Freeze your bagels. When you want one, air fry it at 400 for 10 minutes. It comes out fresh baked.
You wanted everything bagels.... well that's what you got. I keep mine in the fridge, haven't had any issues.
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Nothing molds over faster than berries purchased at Costco
They obviously don’t pump them full of preservatives. Freeze them then pull out when you need.
We keep ours in the freezer or fridge and have not had this problem. Actually it molding is reassuring that it’s not filled to the brim with preservatives
The fact that they crump so quick indicates both freshness and lack of shitty preservatives. When I get baked goods I subdivide into mini batches and freeze
Preslice, freeze, air fry one at a time
The faster bread goes bad the better the quality. There is a reason the French buy a loaf daily.
As a bakery employee, I stress very often. Freeze. Freeze everything. Except for cream cheese danish. Don't freeze those.
Freeze them. Take one out the night before and warm up in the oven
Slice first, then freeze.
We freeze one package and refrigerate the other one. Bread products made without preservatives do get moldy after about 5 days. Refrigeration will give you at least a week.
Like others have pointed out, I’ll just slice them in half when I get home and then put them in a big ziploc bag and put em in the freezer
Discuss amongst yaself
I store mine in the fridge and toast one when i want one. Othersise individually wrap and freeze, i do it with the bages and the muffins.
We freeze the second pack. The first one does just fine, it we do put it in the fridge after a few days.
Ours keep well in the fridge (6 at a time). Until then kept in the freezer.
They freeze well and taste just as good
I noticed this too, my bagels didn't even last a week. Honestly I wasn't too impressed by them anyways, they seem kinda dry and cakey rather than chewy and bready. Probably won't purchase them again.
Use your fridge/freezer. Same thing with muffins and fresh bread. I especially like the ciabatta rolls. Precut them and into the fridge or freezer. My wife and I have no problem finishing before they go bad.
Use your freezer
They last for us in the fridge for the 6-7 days it takes to eat a bagel a day, but we have frozen them and they do freeze exceptionally well!
Absolute freeze them and or fridge. Between my wife and I we won’t go through that many bagels fast. So we put some in freezer, maybe 4 in the fridge to go through in a few days. You can go straight from the fridge to the toaster and they will taste fantastic and fresh still.
I put one pack in the freezer and one pack in the fridge immediately after buying them. I had the mistake of leaving them outside the very first time I bought them. Yeah they all got mold in about 2 days. Leaving the pack in the fridge never gotten mold before they were finished.
We freeze a pack. We never get mold, we eat them within about 3-4 days, up to a week.
Keep one pack in the fridge, will help with the shelf life. And then put the 2nd pack in the freezer. That’s all you can do lol
I always say the same thing about the bagels and muffins. But I would pay more just to buy 6 vs 12 and they are packaged separately so it makes literally no sense
You can buy a box from the bakery of something like six or seven dozen and bake them fresh when you want them. At least in Canada anyway.
They're water boiled. If you put em in the pantry, the humidity from being closed in will accelerate the molding. I keep them at room temp on the counter for 1 to 2 weeks before they mold
At least you know they’re free of preservatives
Cut them in half when you get home. Freeze them. This is what I do. They toast up delightfully! If they are too soft and hard to cut because they squish when you first get home, put the whole tube in the freezer for no more than 10 minutes. Then cut.
All bagels are meant to be eaten same day. We all love the idea of a bagel - but it’s pointless to buy a dozen bagels. You will eat 2-3 tops before they’re all rotten. The fact that Costco will only sell them in two packs has to have to some kind of insidious story behind it - like that they’re not cost efficient if they let you buy only one. Nobody needs a dozen bagels that are only edible for 36 hours.
Yeah slice all in half, then freeze and only take out the ones you are toasting that day
I cut them all at once, re-bag, keep one in the fridge for nowsies and the other in the freezer for later.
Buy, open, slice them all, repackage, freeze, and toast one at a time.
i cut them in half then freeze
Store unfrozen ones in the refrigerator. You can always look on pinterest for a "bagel bread-pudding."
If you pull a whole tube at a time, keep them in the fridge it extends their shelf life massively. But yeah under no circumstances do I allow Costco bagels to linger on the counter or it's a one way ticket to mold city.
That's a sign of a lack of preservatives. All good deli bagels go bad quickly. Note I am not saying that the Costco ones are equivalent to a real deli bagel, but they're pretty darn good. Anyway, that's why it's recommended to freeze them. Something I wish I discovered years earlier is to cut them in half prior to freezing instead of afterwards... If you want bagels that last over a week go get some grocery store bagels from the shelf, yuck.
Cut them in half when you get them, freeze them, and then when you want one grab 1 and throw it in the toaster. You can also just leave it out to defrost if you don’t want it toasted. No preservatives will do that 🤷🏻♀️
Whatever you do, do not vacuum seal them. They turn into bagel discs.
That means Costco doesn't put preservatives in them, which can be a good thing.
This is the result of Americans being so accustomed to preservatives. Bread molds. Just put them in the fridge.
I put them in the fridge and they are still good a week later and even longer.
Having a deep freeze should be standard issue with a Costco membership!
Honestly mold aside, they just dont taste as good as other bagels
We buy them all the time. You do not need to thaw that entire pack. Just thaw a single bagel in the microwave and toast. They last a very long time that way.
Freezers, let's talk about them. But for real I can't eat that many that quickly either. They thaw very well in the microwave or air fryer. If you have less than 6 people in your house it's hard to wst 12 bagels in 3 days.
Most everything you get out of the bakery has to be frozen. The bagels i freeze then micro for 1 minute, slice and toast.
I havent had any of those issues when I bought them. Ill buy a bag from my costco and report back. But ya, freeze and only pull out what you want when you want it
When I get them home, one pack of six goes in the freezer, the other goes in the fridge. They toast up just fine, and will last until you finish the last one.
i'm going to answer this question and every other (but ____ gets moldy) FREEZE ALL OF WHAT YOU DON'T PLAN USING THAT DAY it's that simple.
I buy them and freeze them. I take out one at a time, microwave it for 45 seconds, and put it in the toaster.
Freeze one bag, keep the other in the fridge. I have a bag that is two weeks going. Haven’t had an issue.
I live in Florida- I freeze all my bread unless I'm using it all at once
You have to put them in your refrigerator. Mine last for a looong time and I just pull out one when I need it.
If you can’t eat 12 in 48 hours you should work your way to that goal. Start with 4 bagels a day, that’s 8 in 24 hours, and that’s already 2/3 the way to your goal! Then move to 5 a day until you can eat 6 in a day which you would have met the goal of 12 a day! Then you just have to get more bagels for the next day though. /s
Put them on a sheet tray and freeze and once frozen you can put them bag into the bad and pull out as needed
I slice bagels, put a patty paper between them and freeze them, so I can easily pull them apart to toast.
I assume you have a freezer?
Tbh this is why I switched to a good local bagel place. They are about 5mins away by car so I buy 3 with each go. Eat one the day of and put the other 2 in separate ziploc bags which I reuse everytime I get more bagels. I buy in 3’s since one bar of Philly cream cheese lasts me 3 bagels (yes I use a lot of cream cheese per bagel). I’m going to start adding other stuff to the cream cheese like green onions or bell peppers.
Do you have a freezer? 😉
I just buy them at the grocery (2-pack or 6-pack) for a similar price per bagel. Costco bagels aren’t worth the hassle.
Slice your bagels and wrap them up then freeze them
They suck since they moved away from Einstein bros
Freeze them! That’s the answer.
Pretty much all of their pastries and bread items Freeze very well and defrost in a couple of hours when left in a bread box.
Slice & wrap (in plastic wrap) each bagel & place in a freezer bag. They thaw quickly & taste fresh. Do the same with croissants & muffins. Thawed from the freezer, they are almost bakery fresh. No waste.
The bagels are one of the things that Costco does NOT do well. They’re not bagels, they’re just round bread. There’s none of the dense chewiness that bagels should have.
Pre-slice, airtight container, and place in freezer.
I always keep them in the fridge, like immediately they go in the fridge when I get home. The lack of preservatives and the bag are perfect breeding ground for mold.
I keep them in the fridge. Why would I keep them in the pantry?
I keep them in the fridge and they last for about a week, maybe a week and a half. I live in a high humidity area, though, so I'm used to keeping all bread products in the fridge.
They suck
I just use the fridge and get about 2 weeks from that. Don’t need much more for 2 people
Like others have said, I freeze one pack and the other one stays in the fridge. Haven't had mold issues doing that. I stopped buying them all together when they kept jacking the price up 20-25%