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Just open a ready to bake puff pastry to make a tomato tart, but found an insect should I bin it?

16 replies

teaandcake32 · 10/04/2024 21:05

No idea if the insect came from the puff pastry or not but I saw it as soon as I'd opened the puff pastry.

Just googled and came across weevils.

OP posts:
Sapphire387 · 10/04/2024 21:09

Yes, you should bin it.

marylou25 · 10/04/2024 21:12

If you don't want to use it I'd return to where you bought it. Weevils are usually in flour as in the dry bags of it, not so much in flour products as such.

lovemycbf · 10/04/2024 21:13

No way I'd be eating that
Bin it

Mum2jenny · 10/04/2024 21:14

If you cook it, the insect will be very dead. Just think of it as added protein

JillyTheJinx · 11/04/2024 08:55

Surprised you needed to even ask about it😱

BobbyBiscuits · 11/04/2024 08:58

Weevils are tiny, like a black dot. They live in dried flour etc, not ready made pastry usually. If there really only was one insect I'd probably remove the part around it and still use it to be honest. Literally one weevil that's been cooked already can't really do much even if you did eat it!

GrumpyPanda · 11/04/2024 09:02

Depends whether you're vegetarian.

ALunchbox · 11/04/2024 09:07

Yes, it's fine. Most people around the world eat insects. We are just a bit funny about it but technically there is no reason to be.

Wavywoo · 11/04/2024 09:09

Well, I'd probably bin the insect.

Joking apart, if it is only one insect, not some unfeasibly large one, and you're not certain it was in with pastry, I would probably cook it.

ChurchOfSeitan · 11/04/2024 09:11

Just eat it. It is extra protein 😂

ViveLaOeuf · 11/04/2024 09:16

If it's just the one I'd cut/pick it off and bake as normal.

Agree with pp though, weevils are VERY tiny and I'd certainly struggle to spot just one!

TeabySea · 11/04/2024 09:19

I'm veggie. I'd just pick the insect off and get on with cooking.
You don't know that it was on the pastry, half the pastry is wrapped anyway with the ready-roll products and you're going to cook it.

Singleandproud · 11/04/2024 09:23

If you think about what food has experienced before it finally gets to us a single insect really isn't an issue.

BeauSignoles · 11/04/2024 09:34

I'd eat it. Wouldn't even think twice!

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 11/04/2024 09:38

Can we have photo please?

(Include a banana for scale, thanks muchly)

greasypolemonkeyman · 11/04/2024 09:53

Singleandproud · 11/04/2024 09:23

If you think about what food has experienced before it finally gets to us a single insect really isn't an issue.

This. There is an expected allowance for insect contamination in food products that are grown. For flour I think it's 3%? Could be wrong on that but yes we eat insects every single day without even realising it.

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