Cooling Irish Soda Bread

Cooling Irish Soda Bread
My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to make Irish Soda Bread. Okay now you can see our bread that has just come out of the oven or at least it is in the oven still. I'm going to take a knife and poke it at the side. You can see the knife came out nice and clean so you can see our bread is completely cooked or at least that one is. I am sure this one is as well. Yes, completely clean. Now we are going to take it out and let it clean off. Now we are going to take everything out, put it on a wire rack and let it cool off. I know that everybody out there has got a wire rack so what I did is I thought I would show you what I did if I would not have one. This is actually the rack out of my toaster oven and that will work just fine so this is why you can also use an oven rack as long as it is not hot. The idea is that you want to keep everything up off the counter top so it can cool off nice and evenly all over. I will take my first loaf here and since I did such a great job of buttering the pan up. It is still very hot, the loaf should just fall right out and it has. We are going to place that just like this, and then for the round one, which is the dark soda bread and I am going to just pick it up with my hands which I wouldn't do if it was super, super hot. There we go. So we have our light soda bread over here. Let me get this out of the way. We have our light soda bread over here and our dark soda bread here and we will let these cool for about 15 or 20 minutes and then what we are going to do is slice into it and eat it. The best way to store this is to wrap it in foil. I wouldn't wrap it in plastic wrap though because plastic makes it sweat so wrap it in foil, keep it at room temperature and it should be good for a couple of days before it starts getting funky. It should keep because it is fresh made bread and we didn't put any preservatives in it or anything.