Everyone talks about how great sliced bread is, but there's nothing better than the taste of a just-baked loaf of crusty French bread. Like most beautiful things in life, however, the beauty of the baguette doesn't last. The next day, it's rock-hard, and good for very little except for croutons or breadcrumbs. But there is a trick to make it like fresh again.

When my editor asked me to try out this food hack, I was more than a little skeptical. I love bread, so I didn't think that there would be a miraculous reviving trick that I didn't already know. But this water-soaking method works really well, and I tried it with three different stale loaves of bread.

The most stale loaf, the one pictured here, was also the one that was already cut and over two days old. So I know this method works, and it's a game-changer! (You can check out the original tip here.)