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Original poster

to think that flour with a use by date of July 2010 shouldn't have sodding weevils in!

75 replies

Rockbird · 26/02/2010 17:18

OK, I admit, it's been in the cupboard for a while although unopened. Obviously, this flour is not going to last until July 2010 and the chocolate cake I was just about to make for DH is not going to happen. Little Homepride gits.

WTF do they come from??

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MrsSchadenfreude · 26/02/2010 20:04

Sieve it and throw the weevils away. Then keep your flour in the freezer.

I lived in Nigeria for a few years and became very blasé about weevils in flour, pasta (chuck in a handful of mixed dried herbs and you won't notice them) and ants in the sugar (use dark brown and they don't show so much).

And true, I'm afraid.

DorotheaPlenticlew · 26/02/2010 20:08

MBC, does she think the flour spontaneously generates them?

Original poster
Rockbird · 26/02/2010 20:20

So my original Homepride based whinge was correct all along? AIBU to not expect weevils in new flour?

Or is my cupboard too warm or something?

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Imisssleeping · 26/02/2010 20:45

Yes yabu sounds like you should expect to have weevils in your flour!

MyThumbsHaveGoneWeird · 26/02/2010 21:56

Just sieve it. It'll be fine!

PureAsTheColdDrivenSnow · 26/02/2010 23:26

vom

alypaly · 27/02/2010 00:21

make eccles cakes ,you'll never know they are there

alypaly · 27/02/2010 00:22

i guess its better than finding a mouse in your malt loafnews.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8092921.stm

Original poster
Rockbird · 27/02/2010 00:28

I made chocolate cake; you can't see the buggers and they're too weighed down by chocolate icing to move

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PureAsTheColdDrivenSnow · 27/02/2010 00:28

oh FFS... WHY did I click on that link!
alypaly = evil!

alypaly · 27/02/2010 00:31

guess you wont be buying malt loaf then

ouryve · 27/02/2010 00:32

I had constant weevil infestations until I spent a small fortune on Lock'n'lock containers. Seems that once you get them in one bag, they end up in everything unless you can totally blitz your cupboards and drawers. (Yes, I even found some of the buggers in some old baby bottles and in the grooves in a packet of klippits.) I had a very long summer washing everything in my kitchen over and over until they were gone. I still found the odd one for a couple of years after that (I live in the sticks and I'm sure they fly in, looking for food). I think the origin of my infestation was a load of barley and stuff I bought from a farm shop, though.

alypaly · 27/02/2010 00:34

guess what i found in my bread rollswww.upmyownass.com/animals-in-bread-why-so-cute/

Original poster
Rockbird · 27/02/2010 00:36

shuddup aly

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alypaly · 27/02/2010 00:37

sorry rock,just in playful mood or should i go to bed

DorotheaPlenticlew · 27/02/2010 09:35

If you sieve it the weevils will be out, but won't there still be weevil droppings in there somewhere? Or do weevils not shit?

Or is weevil shit the same size as weevils, therefore sieve-able?

Original poster
Rockbird · 27/02/2010 09:37

Oh nooooooooooooooooooo Dot noooooooooooooooo

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Lucyellensmumma · 27/02/2010 09:41

weevil shit!! i had weevils once, was but that was nothing to the and that i was when i blitzed the cupboard and the little cunts (sorry but there is not other word) were in the baby milk!!!!

monroe66 · 27/02/2010 09:55

Weevil watchers
Weevils are very tiny u can c them as the flour moves. They like the damp even the tiniest amount, so when u buy new flour put it into a plastic container (to keep air out)don't keep it just in the paper bag.
Throw any flour not used after 6 weeks approx to be safe.
Hope helps x

Original poster
Rockbird · 27/02/2010 17:50

Thank you all. I have now been out to Lakeland and bought flour storage thingies which are now in my cupboard filled with fresh weevil-free flour.

Weevils Feck Off!

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Bucharest · 27/02/2010 18:04

I've had 2 infestations, the first was in pearl barley, the second was in weetabix.
(traced it to those as they were both solid with eggs and critters.

Original poster
Rockbird · 27/02/2010 18:07

DD eats Weetabix for breakfast.

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mesobitchy · 27/02/2010 19:20

Urgh. Just Urgh.
Weevil sounds kind of cute. I'd never seen one before, and didn't imagine, from the name, that they would be so ugly.

Feel a bit sick now, especially as DS has made a right old mess in a cupboard, and I'm horribly aware of the flour scattered in there...
< Off to fend off any potential weevils>

Bucharest · 28/02/2010 10:08

Oh, forgot, just when you think you've de-weevilled.....don't forget the pantry moth!
Had those fvckers in my rice last spring.

(didn't know they existed either till I googled insects-storecupboard etc)

Fluffyone · 28/02/2010 17:33

When I was a child and due to take my Brownie cooking badge I missed the date when everyone made cakes because I was ill. So I had a special appointment with Brown Owl with my mum, to take some cakes I'd made. So on the morning of the day we were due to visit Brown Owl (!) Mum grabbed a bag of flour from the cupboard to quickly knock up some fairy cakes. Of course, the flour was moving.
So... frazzled Mum, who didn't drive and had no shops nearby... sieved the flour and the cakes were made.
Brown Owl was the only one who ate them.