.. to have still cooked the lasagne?

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Very proud of myself to have thrown together a huge lasagne from scratch while also working from home. Freshly cooked bechemel sauce, homecooked sauce .. I was putting on the final layer of pasta sheets ready for the oven and noticed 2 of those bloody tiny wheat mites crawling on them!!!

So there was already a layer of pasta sheets (from the same box) in the middle of the lasagne -and it would have been ruined if I had to have dug them out-

So ..... what would you have done?

I know this is so gross.

This reminds me of Fanny Cradock.
Her cooking programs used to be live, as was much TV in those days. She was cooking a roast and as she took the chicken out of the oven she dropped it on the floor. She picked it up and popped it back in the pan saying 'remember, you are alone in your own kitchen.'

I would eat it and not say and word, and I'm vegetarian.

This is based on the US, I think, but here you go: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Food_Defect_Action_Levels

Mmmm... In shredded carrots it's acceptable to have an average of 800 or more insect fragments per 10 grams.

In a tin of sweetcorn, you're allowed two or more 3mm+ larvae, cast skins, or larval or cast skin fragments.

And in chocolate, you're allowed an average of 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams.

Deeeeee-licious.

By those standards you're practically serving a dish of pure hygiene.

From memory I think you're also allowed cigarette butts in certain spices (pepper? cumin?) and bits of grasshopper in peanuts. Or it might have been peanut butter.

I read all about it with sickened fascination some years ago and for a while there, nearly starved at the sheer horror of chomping down all kinds of undisclosed disgustingness.

Cook it and eat it.
No one has seen the flour in big bins in a bakery or a mill I take it?
Or the oats for porridge.
There is a formula for how many "things" can be in food that is fit for human consumption, it isn't sterile.

Oh god you've put me of my dinner

I cannot believe that people would throw away a whole meal, and lets face it lasagne made properly isnt a cheap dinner, for the sake of 2 mites that were flicked off the pasta sheets!

Wish I could afford to be so wasteful!

I honestly wouldn't think twice about eating the lasagne. The weevils will do you no harm, and they certainly won't be the only insects/parts of
insects in that dish.

For example, regulations permit up to 15 fruitfly eggs and 1 maggot per hundred grams of tinned tomatoes. So if you used a standard 400g can, there could already be 60 eggs and 4 maggots in there.

But the reason these levels are permitted is because THEY DO YOU NO HARM WHATSOEVER AND ARE PERFECTLY FINE. Honestly, humans have evolved to eat things which aren't vacuum sealed and totally untouched by anything except sunlight.

Oh! And vermin hairs. In... dried pasta? God it's all vanished.

Maybe that was a good thing.

...and as a previous poster has pointed out, it's already full of bits of cow. A few weevils aren't going to make a difference.

(I say this as a meat-eater, not criticising the addition of meat)

Eat and enjoy

What with this and the cat thread,I feel faint

We had a weevil infestation. They entered sealed glass and plastic containers, unopened plastic packs of pasta, spice jars, packs of sugar - in short, into everything that wasn't hermetically sealed.

Now I only buy a small bag of flour when needed and put it in the freezer for 92 hours as soon as I bring it home from the supermarket.

Dare I say it, Vegan, but what's the, er, "cat thread"...?

For the sake of fuck....well ,no your better of not asking...

I would of binned it as there's no way I could of enjoyed it knowing they were in there.

Oh god. Weevils. I remember years ago, before we married, I was cooking in DH's kitchen. The flour was MOVING. Tore everything out of the cupboard and the blighters were everywhere. Even now, 10 years later, I religiously check the flour before i use it.

Cooked it. No problem.

I can't read any more...im going to bin open packets of anything in my cupboard

Cooked and eaten it. There may not have been any on it anyway. I've given up with precooked lasagne sheets as they never seem to cook properly though so boiling would have killed them

I've twice had weevils. I got more OCD about packet closure but have become more lax again but do now have a faster turnover of flour as they like packets you don't use much

I'm in a hot country.

'if it's moving, it needs removing' .

It'll be absolutely fine. Just cook it!

I also have a mate involved with the whole 'how many bug bits are ok' industry. I still eat ketchup. If you don't like bugs - you shouldn't!

I just ate it there. Was really tasty. I was looking at those specs of oregano with suspicion but it was still really good.

This thread has turned out to be more gross entertaining than I anticipated!

Going to have to clear out that entire press now. That's probably the most painful part of this experience.

Can't say I've heard of wheat mites either.

Mind you, have you seen that cheese that is crawling with mites - on purpose. sticks to Aldi Cheddar

Defininitely eat it.

Mmm.
Extra protein