Flour storage ... Surely this must be possible!!

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Just got new clean kitchen cupboards and am looking for air tight boxes that will store a full bag of flour. There seem to be loads of 'dry food containers' like Systema, Lock and Lock etc., but they all want you to decant the flour. I just want to lob the full bag straight in. Surely this must be possible!!?? Has anyone got such a thing? TIA

I use this one from Lakeland. It fits a bag of flour but you do need to push it down quite firmly.
www.lakeland.co.uk/11756/Lock-and-Lock-Flour-Box

Sorry, I keep flour in the freezer here.

I tie it in a carrier bag until its needed and then decant. Is there a reason why you don't want to decant it?

I use the big one for cereal storage and the small one fits a bag of flour 1.5kg perfectly without decanting. I just roll the top of the flour packet down after using and pop the lid back on.
m.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/art/90176976/

Sorry, don't know how to do clicky links.

Oh the link worked!

I keep flour in the bag inside in a Zip Lock bag.

I also use a big zip lock bag.

I keep mine in the freezer but as it's a 10kg sack, I have a large glass jar with a very fitted lid to decant it into for general use. You can use it straight from the freezer but I prefer not to. I think my large glass jar was billed as a pasta jar, can't remember now!

Actually (and amazingly!) I've just found it, and no, it was just a "large kitchen storage jar. But might not be available in the UK, although I'm sure you could find similar. You can get a 1kg bag straight in there without having to decant though :)

I use the large glass kilner jars, you can fit a whole bag in one of those and it's airtight.

Excellent! Thank you all so much ... Off to order some Lakeland ones right now. No good reason for not decanting - just pure laziness I'm afraid

I just fold the lid down & put a peg on. Or sometimes buy the rigid boxes.

I use a Kilner & decant from big bag in the freezer.

I have some standard kitchen storage plastic jars that work. they are large ones and not cheap. I bought ones that looked big enough and when I found a style that did work I bought more of them. so I have a couple of too small ones that work fine for a bag of sugar.

The freezer? Why on earth?

Tell me about freezing flour. Why? To extend the life, or is it a storage thing? I've never heard of that before. Thanks.

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I freeze flour so it stays fresh until I need it but more importantly to kill any weevil larvae that's in it.

Can you use it straight out of the freezer?

I don't.

Blimey. The only time I've had flour weevils is in the past when I didn't bake very often so didn't use the flour for a long time, like a year. These days it goes in a couple of weeks so weevils aren't an issue.

I opened a brand new bag of recently bought bread flour this week and it had weevils crawling in it.

Fortunately I had a spare bag so I could still make my bread. At least the weevil infested unopened bag had been stored in a tin so at least they hadn't spread...

I decant into Kilmer jars here. The jars are labelled so have plain, self raising, wholemeal, and bread

I live in Australia and freeze to prevent weevils.

Yes, freezing is to stop the flour weevils.
It can be used straight from the freezer, because it doesn't actually freeze solid, but it's probably better to let it warm up a little bit beforehand, as it can clump up a bit. I wrap my paper sack in plastic bags to stop the flour getting damp in the freezer.