Flour mites ?

[snowgirl29]

DD packed the shopping away earlier. I don't know why but she put the eggs in a cupboard I hardly use that doesn't have much in. I went to get them out earlier to make the cake for her school 1920s party tomorrow. They were inside the egg carton

I rescued two of the eggs but do I run the risk of poisoning / killing her school mates if I use them in the cake?

Do you mean the flour mites were inside the egg carton?

If so you are perfectly ok to use the eggs, the mites wont get through the shell. You might want to sift any flour you are using though.

Eggs will be totally fine, just wash them to make sure no mites fall in

Unless you are vegetarian I don't think you need to worry too much about a few flour mites (do you mean weevils?) unless they are all though your flour which could have an effect on the protein levels.

As pp have said, the eggs will be fine, but do check all flour in that cupboard now....

Thankyou for your advice.

Yes DD had put egg carton in the cupboard and they were having ginormous fun all over my egg box come later on that evening when I took the eggs out. Thankyou for your advice all.

I had a big flour weevil infestation in our food cupboard. They seem to like anything in cardboard. After clearing everything out, I now keep flour in plastic bags in the freezer. Nothing can hatch out!

Yes - you might want to check all dried products in that and the nearby cupboards.

I once found some in the flour - very small creatures but the flour was 'moving'.

i threw everything out - and now store flour, sugar etc in glass jars or tupperware tubs.

I doubt that they are harmful, but it's a bit icky..

Re the freezer trick. .

Do you just put the bags of flour in the freezer first to kill them all?

Other bag of flour was sealed and hasn't been undone so assume they're okay to keep? x

I would open the other bag to check it, then wrap well in a plastic bag.

I only threw the infested bag away once, didn't bother going through everything, gave them loads of time to multiply! Thry seem to be able to get through apparently well-sealed paper bags..