When I toast bread that I have freshly made, it comes out of the toaster much hotter than store-bought bread. Why?
• I’m going to assume that the home-made and shop-bought bread are the same variety – white, for instance – and that both are toasted on the same setting.
Based on the information given in the question, the reason for the temperature disparity could simply be that the home-baked bread went into the toaster hotter than its supermarket counterpart, because it has implicitly just come out of the oven or bread machine. If, however, the home-made bread had cooled to the temperature…
