Creepy Crawlies In A Box Of Rice.

[Tilly2]

Last night I made, for the first time ever, a Thai Green chicken curry. That was going well.

I took a previously opened box of Thai sticky rice from the cupboard and got out my scales to weigh the amount. When I poured the rice into the weighing pan, I noticed lots of little black flecks on the surface of the rice. Initially, I thought it may have been husks but I decided to leave it in the weighing pan for a while and see what happened. All the black specks disappeared. They had burrowed down under the surface!

Fortunately, I had some different, uncontaminated rice and cooked that.

The other box went in the bin!

I have just spent a delightful ten minutes researching rice and cereal pests. That was amusing.

[albaqwerty]

ugh !!

If they weren't already in the rice or Purist's flour, how on earth did they get there?
Either thought had put me off my brekkie.

[mikey4444]

I have had this trouble with bags of flour. Its apparently impossible to exclude these weevils, so the only way forward is to be vigilante.

[Tilly2]

I can only assume that the 'things' were in the box of rice when I bought it, Alba.

[Tilly2]

I keep my flour in a box. I buy only small quantities as I'm no baker.

[naomi24]

How on earth do they get there? I'm posting this with a warning but if you really want to know, read on .....

https://www.thespruce.com/what-is-a-weevil-2656439

[KUSTARD]

This brought back memories!!! We had a static caravan and I left a bag of pasta in it by mistake over the Winter. When we went back in the Spring, it was full of maggots!!

[mikey4444]

I intend to make a cake today, a very unusual thing for me ( I like seed cake, and can't find it anywhere, so, needs must ! )

I have some flour that has been in the cupboard for over a year, but its going in the bin this morning !

[albaqwerty]

thanks Naomi, but no thanks !!

I think I'll console myself with the thought that they are in the packaging :-D

Kustard, you could have sold them to local anglers :-)

[Tilly2]

Thanks for that, Naomi. I now have the vacuum on standby.

(I know there's nothing in the cupboard but I'll give it a bit of a once over.)

[naomi24]

KUSTARD, maggots come from flies eggs. You must have had a fly land on your pasta.

Mikey, infestation isn't related to use-by dates. See the link I posted.

[Tilly2]

Was the whole caravan full of maggots, Kustard?

[naomi24]

Tilly, you can rest assured that the infestation is nothing to do with anything you've done - or not done. Horrible things.

[Cloverjo]

Oh yuk. I've found little black things in my flour before. I'm going to throw away the packet I have in my cupboard now.

[murraymints]

I had a problem with a big bad of bird seed.. it was full of them..kept in a plastic bin in the hall..looked ok but started to see wee beasties about..when I looked in the seed bin there were thousands.... ditched bin and all but had a few strays roaming around which took a while to get rid of... seed must have been contaminated

[naomi24]

Cloverjo, there's no point in throwing food away that shows no sign of them. If the eggs are not present in a new bag of food, there's nothing to hatch.

[Tilly2]

Flour and rice sales are going to shoot up this weekend as we all buy new packets of the stuff! :-)

[Cloverjo]

Ok, thanks, Naomi. I hate wasting food so will keep the flour. I'll check everything carefully in future though.

[naomi24]

Tilly, and in some instances we'll still be getting what we don't want! Buy one, get a thousand free! :o)

[Tilly2]

We're all doomed!

[murraymints]

doooooomed ah tell ya !