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Post by mstreepsucks on Jun 3, 2020 20:26:41 GMT
I also put spices, salt, pepper, empty beer bottles filled with water, flour, and dinner plates and pots in the refridgerator also. As well as empty instant coffee containers filled with h20. As well as empty grocery plastic bags.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jun 3, 2020 21:08:57 GMT
When I have space for it, sure.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2020 1:48:37 GMT
I keep my flour in the freezer.
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Post by divtal on Jun 4, 2020 2:29:20 GMT
I've kept my flour in the freezer, for two reasons ...
- I'm not a baker of cakes/cookies/bread. My flour use is almost always for dredging, making a roux or other small applications. A pound of flour lasts a long time in my kitchen. I don't know to a certainty, but I think it stays fresher in the freezer.
- Once upon a time, when I decided to try making my own sourdough starter, I bought a large bag of unbleached flour, which was recommended for the directions that I was following. "Feeding" a starter is a daily process of discarding some of the already combined water/flour, and adding more of each, at the same time each day. I innocently left the flour sitting on a sideboard during the process. I had the bag closed, but it doesn't take much for moth larvae to survive, and thrive. I had a moth infestation of Biblical proportions.
Flour stays in the freezer.
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Post by onethreetwo on Jun 4, 2020 5:06:45 GMT
I also put spices, salt, pepper, empty beer bottles filled with water, flour, and dinner plates and pots in the refridgerator also. As well as empty instant coffee containers filled with h20. As well as empty grocery plastic bags. Why do you put plastic bags, dinner plates, and pots in the fridge? |
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Post by politicidal on Jun 4, 2020 16:04:58 GMT
I also put spices, salt, pepper, empty beer bottles filled with water, flour, and dinner plates and pots in the refridgerator also. As well as empty instant coffee containers filled with h20. As well as empty grocery plastic bags. Why do you put plastic bags, dinner plates, and pots in the fridge? Good question. |
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Post by loofapotato on Jun 4, 2020 18:18:53 GMT
I've kept my flour in the freezer, for two reasons ... - I'm not a baker of cakes/cookies/bread. My flour use is almost always for dredging, making a roux or other small applications. A pound of flour lasts a long time in my kitchen. I don't know to a certainty, but I think it stays fresher in the freezer. - Once upon a time, when I decided to try making my own sourdough starter, I bought a large bag of unbleached flour, which was recommended for the directions that I was following. "Feeding" a starter is a daily process of discarding some of the already combined water/flour, and adding more of each, at the same time each day. I innocently left the flour sitting on a sideboard during the process. I had the bag closed, but it doesn't take much for moth larvae to survive, and thrive. I had a moth infestation of Biblical proportions. Flour stays in the freezer. I don't refrigerate flour and I have never had little caterpillars spawn in it. How did moths lay eggs in your flour? That's creepy. If its placed in the bottom cupboard then book lice may find their way in and start breeding into a colony. I once had to throw out 2 lbs of flower twice because they found a way into large glass jars that I had flour stored in the cabinet under the sink. I guess they were able to find a gap and crawl between the screw top lid and the lip of the jar. I now put bags of flour in ziplocked bags and store them in the cabinet far off the floor. Also I suggest you also ziplock Rid-X if you have a box of it or any kind of powdered bacteria to unglogged drains. I had an even worse similar issue in one of my bathrooms with a massive infestation of book lice. It took a few months over the Summer in trying to rid them before I realized they were multiply by feeding off Rid-X stored in a bathroom cabinet. |
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Post by Xcalatë on Jun 4, 2020 18:49:21 GMT
I keep it in the Microwave (which is always on btw)
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jun 5, 2020 1:50:41 GMT
I also put spices, salt, pepper, empty beer bottles filled with water, flour, and dinner plates and pots in the refridgerator also. As well as empty instant coffee containers filled with h20. As well as empty grocery plastic bags. Why do you put plastic bags, dinner plates, and pots in the fridge? Because then they don't have to be left out causing clutter. Clutter makes me triggered. I have a phobia against clutter. Actually I just don't like it.
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Post by MooseNugget on Jun 5, 2020 2:37:38 GMT
When I have space for it, sure. lmao is that from Microwave Massacre? |
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jun 5, 2020 2:53:53 GMT
When I have space for it, sure. lmao is that from Microwave Massacre? Friday the 13th Part 2 |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 5, 2020 2:56:48 GMT
Why do you put plastic bags, dinner plates, and pots in the fridge? Because then they don't have to be left out causing clutter. Clutter makes me triggered. I have a phobia against clutter. Actually I just don't like it.
No trigger when you open the refrigerator and see everything but the kitchen sink in there ? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2020 3:56:57 GMT
I have had moths fly out at me from a long forgotten container of Quaker oats on several occasions.
Also when I was a kid my grandmother was making Kraft macaroni and cheese and she dumped macaroni in the water and it was full of bugs!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2020 4:02:19 GMT
Why do you put plastic bags, dinner plates, and pots in the fridge? Because then they don't have to be left out causing clutter. Clutter makes me triggered. I have a phobia against clutter. Actually I just don't like it.
You don't have cupboards with doors on them in your kitchen For storage? |
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jun 5, 2020 4:17:05 GMT
Because then they don't have to be left out causing clutter. Clutter makes me triggered. I have a phobia against clutter. Actually I just don't like it.
You don't have cupboards with doors on them in your kitchen For storage? Yes but also, the cupboards are too high. I mean i can reach up there but i figure if i have to put something away up high it could cause shoulder pain. So therefore if i take it out of the fridge, it will be much lower.
Not causing any shoulder pain. Because pots and dinner plates are heavy.
It's the same thing i do with my computer, i sit on pillows so the my hand is even with the keyboard and mouse and not lower than it. Because if i didn't sit on the pillow, then i could get shoulder pain over time.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Jun 5, 2020 17:00:19 GMT
I go through flour quickly as I bake a lot of muffins and biscuits. Corn meal I'll put in the freezer if I don't use it much. Same with certain rices which I don't use as often as plain brown rice. I know relatives who live in warm climates put a lot of their stuff in the refrigerator.
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Post by divtal on Jun 5, 2020 19:15:53 GMT
From Gameboy: "I don't refrigerate flour and I have never had little caterpillars spawn in it. How did moths lay eggs in your flour? That's creepy."
It was very creepy. And, I have no idea how it happened. The flour was a name brand, and I purchased it at a major supermarket. I, too, have had the little weevils get into flour. That's pretty common. It happened gradually. I saw a dead moth, every couple of mornings ... then daily. One evening, a moth was attracted to my computer screen when the room was fairly dark. I went into the kitchen, and they were swarming around the kitchen, and on the walls. ( NOTE: I do like wine, but I was not having the "DTs."  .) I know that many people decry the use of RAID. But, desperate people do desperate things. It took a couple of days for me to connect it to the flour, after online searches. End of Sourdough starter experiment!One fun/funny thing that came of the experience is that I have a friend who is an art teacher. Her classes focus on subjects in nature. They were working on a variety of insects, but hadn't included moths. When I told a group about my infestation, she asked if she could have their little carcasses. I was on the down-side of the attack, but was still able to supply a few "bodies," for about a week. Not too many people know someone who would ask for a re-cycling of their dead moths. |
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