Opened a factory sealed 25lb bag of rice that we had for couple months inside the house in an airtight container, had bunch of bugs.

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Originally posted by snwghst:
All flour will get bugs. I always put in the freezer

Unless it comes with bugs or eggs or you don’t seal it, I don’t see how it would get bugs. Is flour with bug eggs a problem? I’ve never had a bug in any food at all unless it was sugar ants getting inside.

Large bags of rice from Costco stored in air tight buckets will have small bugs in them after a few months. If you fill the bucket completely and add a few oxygen absorbers, you won't find bug when you open it.

For flour, treatment in a freezer or low temp oven can kill the bugs and make them safe to store long term.

Darn it you guys got me paranoid. I just sifted some of my flour (I hardly ever use it). I found a few tiny black specks. They aren't moving and don't look like bugs. They could be bug parts or some other contaminant. They aren't moving and are smaller than a mite. I took pics and tried to make bigger but not seeing anything resembling a bug. I was about to throw it all out. But I decided to sift the entire 4 lbs and did not find another spec of anything so I think I'm safe.

I don't brew beer like I used to but this was sometimes a problem in sacks of malted barely. Not because you would get bugs in your beer because after crushing the grain, and mashing it, it's filtered through the grain bed and then boiled.

The main concern was them spreading to your other grain stores so the cure I often seen mentioned was, as bags of grain were often 50/55 lbs, was to put them in a big rubber maid bin w/ some dry ice.

Have to laugh because I’m a Northern girl, and I worked with someone who is from the south for a couple of years- until I met her, I never looked for or heard of bugs in my flour.. never had to worry about it..after I met her, within the next two years regularly found bugs in it, so I started freezing it. Not sure why. Gold medal was a standard brand, but I’ve switched to King Arthur.

I didn't need to see this. Now you got me trying to figure out how to freeze minute rice. I just want to live in my blissful ignorance. And I dont want to know about the pop tarts either.

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Originally posted by wolfe 21:
I didn't need to see this. Now you got me trying to figure out how to freeze minute rice. I just want to live in my blissful ignorance. And I dont want to know about the pop tarts either.

You don't eat fish do you. Let me tell you about the worms.

I used to, but apparently I wont be anymore...

I'm gonna be living on frosted flakes at this rate.

Oh, weevils love Frosted Flakes.

The FDA allows a certain percentage of bugs, parts, and bug poop in food and flour typically has some. I mill my own wheat into flour and buy bread flour in 50# bags. Everything goes in the freezer for a few weeks minimum to kill the nasties.

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Originally posted by mark60:
The FDA allows a certain percentage of bugs, parts, and bug poop in food and flour typically has some. I mill my own wheat into flour and buy bread flour in 50# bags. Everything goes in the freezer for a few weeks minimum to kill the nasties.

What kind of flour mill do have and/or recommend? Thanks.
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Originally posted by OKCGene:

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Originally posted by mark60:
The FDA allows a certain percentage of bugs, parts, and bug poop in food and flour typically has some. I mill my own wheat into flour and buy bread flour in 50# bags. Everything goes in the freezer for a few weeks minimum to kill the nasties.

What kind of flour mill do have and/or recommend? Thanks.
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I've had a Mockmill 200 for a few years now and have been more than happy with it.

My wife puts bay leaves in her flour. Lots of folks say it works, some say it’s an old wives tale. I’ve certainly seen bugs in flour before, but not hers. Anybody else use bay leaves?

Not flour or bug related but still in the spirit of this thread.

I sent an "ass burner' feedback to Safeway - Alberrtson's about their change in their house brand Primo Taglio ham off the bone deli meat. For literally decades it has been a solid family favorite for deli sandwich meat. But late last year - early this year the quality went to shit with an abundance of fat and grizzle. Taste also went to crap. Figured they'd changed to a different contracted meat packer and/or formulation. After two buys of the "new" stuff and a brief discussion with the deli clerks who agreed it had gone way downhill, we swore off of it. Said whoever was responsible for this travesty should be fired. I don't give a damn about their cost savings or whatever motivated them. Quality to the consumer is paramount. Sending feedback is a bit of a challenge as their web site doesn't have a dedicated feedback form. You have to dig into the contact us area to find a suitable method.

On the positive side I received a response within 4 hours on a Sunday. They said my evaluation would be sent to the Product Manager / Store Director for their review.

We shall see if I'm blown off or not.