Our bread bin fell apart so we’ve been keeping our bread and buns on the counter.
They seem to be going mouldy a lot faster.
Does keeping bread in the dark slow down mould?
Ah, my Canadowegian friend, sit down over here and get comfortable
In the rest of the world, and even sometimes in Canada there can be seen in the daytime sky a celestial orb that we call the sun.
The sun provides light and energy and melts things and living things can use this energy to grow.
Where there is no sun, not so much.
The warmth from the sun will cause some of the moisture within the bread and/or surrounding atmosphere to evaporate and then condense on the surfaces. In this primordial soup of heat, free moisture, ample digestible carbohydrates and proteins any viable forms like the spores of moulds and bacteria come to life. It is biology rather than magic, none-the-less that for many lesser enlightened centuries humans called this spontaneous generation. It would seem to me that a quorum of your southern cousins wish to return their country to these times.
If you wish to investigate further take two seed potatoes. Put one on the counter beside your bread. Put the other away in a dark box, out of sight. When the potato on the counter begins to show signs of germination, propagation and green sprouts throw it in the bin and seek out the one secreted in the box. This one will probably look unchanged and can be eaten safely.
I regret to tell you this, but I store my potatoes in the dark, and they all sprout eventually anyway. (well, not the ones I ate before they got around to it.) Potatoes normally sprout in the dark, because they’d normally sprout underground.
So you may have something in the general principal, but that’s not a good example.
I have had bread go moldy in a breadbox, and also outside of a breadbox. I never tried to keep track of which went moldy faster. It will take longer to get moldy in the refrigerator (though it’ll happen eventually if I forget about the last bit on the back of the shelf), but that has to do with the temperature. If the sun’s shining directly on the bread while it’s out of the breadbox, that may indeed affect the temperature; though if the breadbox is metal and the sun also shines on it, the inside of the breadbox might get even warmer than the bread outside of it.
What is the breadbox made out of, does the bread outside the breadbox stay right next to it or somewhere else in the room, do the locations get equal sunlight and temperature?
Am I the only one who saw the thread title “Does bread go faster than the speed of light?”
Because mold mold is not photosynthetic and doesn’t use light to generate energy, mold can grow in the dark as well.
Only in a vacuum.
Never store your bread in the vacuum.
Yes, but my question is whether the rate of mould growth is different in the dark from in the light?
Our bread molded much faster in the bread box, and we eventually realized it was full of mold spores, and stopped using a bread box.
Mold doesn’t photosynthesis, and i don’t think it’s sensitive to light. I’m guessing you are seeing a temperature effect.