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Originally Posted by Igor
Dear Pookie,
On a related topic of staleness, why is it when crunchy breads such as crackers go stale, they get soft, while soft breads like wheat sandwich bread goes stale, they get hard? What does going stale really mean?
Unregretfully yours,
Igor Wakhevitch
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Bread gets hard because it loses moisture.
Biscuits get soft because they absorb moisture from the air, but then they lose most of their internal moistures and
will go hard.