We use two loaves of bread at Shabas and yom tov meals. Some people cut into both loaves, but some only cut into one, merely holding the other with it while reciting the b'racha. Rav Chayim Pinchas Scheinberg is paraphrased (in The Radiance of Shabbos by Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen) as saying that, even if one will not cut into the second loaf, he should hold it unwrapped. However, Rabbi Cohen gives no reason for this rule. Why should the second loaf be unwrapped? (I'm looking for any valid reason, not necessarily Rabbi Scheinberg's.)
(I'm not asking whether the second loaf should be unwrapped. Opinions to the contrary wouldn't address this question. I'm asking why it should be unwrapped, according to those who hold it should be.)
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