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So I went to make cookies the other day and saw that my flour, stored in a jar with a screw-on lid, had little black dots in it. Closer inspection: mold! YUK!
I always tear off the date of the flour bag beforehand and put in the jar with the flour. It still had 4 months til expiration date! (Don't worry, Royall, I didn't use that flour for the cookies!!) Anyway, what gives? I figured this was a great method for storage, but apparently not.
Can you store flour in the refrigerator? Does anyone here do that? Any more suggestions? (Besides, "bake more.")
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Yep. Store flour in the fridge. People do do that,
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When I lived in New Orleans (really humid) all bread and flour and what not needed to be stored in the fridge or if you have a large freezer locker it can go in there as well. What Rob said
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I have to use the little silica gel packs for underwater photography. I just bought extra and got the food grade ones. Great for tossing a couple into any storage of dry goods (seasonings, flour etc) to keep them from clumping or molding.
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Mine is in the freezer when not being used. Have to let it warm up a bit when you make dough for bread.... Tends to slow the rise waaaaaaay down! DAMHIKT!! lol! Great for baking cookies or make a pie crust. Don't have to "chill" the dough so long.
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yeah, I gave up on storing flour in the cupboard shortly after I moved here. If it's not mold, it will be bugs.
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Originally posted by dwedeking
I have to use the little silica gel packs for underwater photography. I just bought extra and got the food grade ones. Great for tossing a couple into any storage of dry goods (seasonings, flour etc) to keep them from clumping or molding.
Where did you get the food grade silica gel packs?
actually for that matter, where do you get the regular silica gel pacs?
Thanks
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Okay -- the flour I was going to use for the cookies I didn't bake just went into the freezer. Thanks. I hate to put my rice in there, too, but guess I'd better. Don't sealed jars work? How can something possibly get into tupperware, or a sealed container.
That goes back to Royall's question: are the bugs already IN this stuff, or do they invade? This question arose for me when I had fruit in one of those netted fruit baskets -- and a few days later, flies were trapped within! Yikes. Well, at least no snakes yet. When those get here, I'm leaving.
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I spent a couple of days just north of Hilo last trip out and everything left in the kitchen cupboards smelled moldy even the salt and pepper. In my home town Denver you can leave that stuff out for ever.
Kelena,
I once opened a new Brita filter that had been sealed in plastic (not hard plastic, you know the sealed packaging that you rip open). The filter was entirely colonized by ants. I have no idea how they got in it, as there were no holes in the packaging. Go figure.
I haven't been having issues with my rice, but this house hasn't been as challenging as others I've had here. Different houses, different issues.
TJ, the wooden cupboards in those older houses just smell like that. I moved into one like that and had the cabinets painted (with a sprayer) on the inside. It was the only way to kill that musty odor.
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