Ad wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:37:22 +0200, Quinch >
> wrote:
>
>> I've got a persisting problem I could use some help with, if anyone has
>> experience.
>>
>> I tend to buy flour in bulk in large paper sacks that would ideally last
>> me about a year or so, if not more. The problem is that, inevitably and
>> usually in the summer, moths manage to crawl inside at which point the
>> whole batch is pretty much unrecoverable. Trying to seal the sack has,
>> at best, only delayed the inevitable, so I'm wondering, does anyone have
>> any advice on how to deal with this?
>
> I've had the same problem. I think the moth eggs were already in your
> flour to begin with. It mainly means you bought a natural product.
> Maybe you can freeze the flour or buy less of it, so the eggs don't
> get a chance to hatch.
>
It's possible, but I'm not sure - the flour does tend to get infested at
around the time moths start cropping up just about everywhere {tail end
of spring, if I'm lucky I can delay it through most of summer}, so it
seems more likely that they come into the flour rather than out of it.