How do you store flour?

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So over cleaning up flour spills from the cupboard, floor and worktops each time I use bags of flour. How do you store yours?

In glass jars with wooden lids from Ikea 👌🏻

In glass jars with metal lids.

In glass jars, kilner jars I think they are called. Helps prevent weevil spread. Never ever buy cheap flour. Always check a new bag as soon as it's opened.

Ikea glass clip top jars.

I always misjudge the volume so if you fill them, close the lid, then swivel them around on the work surface, you'll get another few cm of space as the flour settles down and air pockets work their way up to the top of the jar.

Kilner jars to stop weavils.

I do have a constant quandary when I buy new flour but haven't quite finished the old jar though. Do you top up the old stuff with new? Seems wrong. Or let the bag sit in the cupboard while you use up the old and it get potentially weavilled.

I miss being young and not worrying about such things.

Put the paper bag of flour in a strong sealable plastic bag.

Locknlock box like this

I put new bags of flour in the freezer for a week, then put it in a ziplock freezer bag in my baking ingredients cupboard. No more weevils.

It the flour bag it comes in, with the top rolled down. Why would it spill (unless the bag is ripped)?

Thanks, good tip! Now I just need to clear the freezer (it is rammed full of food no one eats)

In my mam's old bero flour tins, which I think were my gran's. They're definitely older than me.

Touch wood but I've not had Weevils since 2020. Funnily enough it was when I switched from Tesco flour to Aldi flour. Nevertheless, I still have Weevil paranoia and flashbacks of deep cleaning my kitchen to an inch of its life once I had binned the flour with Weevils in it (put the bag of flour in a bin bag then straight out into my outside bin)

Will have a look on IKEA at the glass jars. Though I think if I can find them in the right size, would prefer the old style kilner jars (or I could just rearrange my cupboards on these dark nights)

I used to be young and fun... Alas here we are... my joy is now all things kitchen.

I used to pop the whole packet in a ziplock but since moving to an old house in France, I bought a massive plastic hard tub for all the bags because I’ve been forewarned about mice! That sits in the old pantry.

Tuppaware. I don’t buy a new bag until the old tub is nearly finished. Then the tub gets washed out before it’s refilled.

The glass jars are a direct result of the great weevil horror of 2019...

I just fold the top over and put a clothes peg on. No spillages.
There was the weevil incident years ago but I think that was an old forgotten bag that had got pushed to the back.
I also once had rice weevils or whatever they are called. Brown rice from Lidl. Never bought brown rice since.

In the bag, in a ziplock plastic bag, with a bay leaf in. Also in plastic tubs. Note the weevils also enjoy Oxo cubes and dry pasta which they eat internally creating an interesting window effect.
I wouldn't rely on plastic to keep rodents out. Mice gnawed their way, very neatly, into my wheely bin. And rats, in a friend's empty house, made a difficult climb to chew their way in, and eat all the contents of the plastic box containing the pending supply of poison. No trace of them since.

Agree mice are a nightmare they will chew through anything. My flour is in the paper bag from the shop with the top rolled down and no holes so not sure actually why it's so messy. @Treaclewell what does the bay leaf do? @murasaki did the glass jars cause the Weevils?

When I buy flour it's usually two bags at a time. I could just put them into the jars and when one jar runs out completely wash it out, before topping back up with a fresh bag. I think I have some stickers somewhere to mark the jars.

Really helpful tips from everyone. Thanks

In a click lock container with bay leaves to deter weavils

I've never heard of using bay leaves for the Weevils before. Will try your tip out, thank you.

In plastic jars with sealable lids.

I quarantine it for 48 hours in the freezer and then put it in the cupboard. Although like yours, my cupboard ends up covered in flour. I definitely can’t be bothered decanting it into something else though I go through two bags a week, too much effort.

I have a big white enamel tin bread bin which holds about 6 bags, I just leave them in the bags inside it, don't decant. I've never had weevils😳

I do this too.