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.

[Tilly2]

No mice here, thank goodness.

I always use Tilda wholegrain brown rice...except when I need some sticky rice...then I buy cheaper stuff.

[murraymints]

wonky would get 'em !! supercat !

[murraymints]

oh wont eat the wholegrain :o( ...

[Tilly2]

Can't you train him, Minty?

[murraymints]

can I send him doon ? show him the kitchen.that will be a shock !!

[Tilly2]

I'll keep him for a few days if you like. :-)

Have to go now. Time for Tilly's walk.

Thanks for the responses, everyone.