BI Answers: Why does stale bread become hard, but stale potato chips become soft? It may sound like a riddle, but it's not: Your bread gets hard when it gets old and stale, while chips get softer.

And whether you like it with cornbread, sourdough, or croissants (don't knock it 'til you've tried it), you've probably been told to use stale bread at some point. And at first glance, that makes ...

If you have stale bread at home, there are a few things you can do other than tossing it in the trash -- for instance, make the hearty Tuscan soup called ribollita, use stale bread to make fresh ...