Post by admin on Sept 3, 2006 14:44:53 GMT -5
Flour stored in freezer
I don't know about the freezer. In 1999 I bought about
20kg of flour. Put it in a see through plastic box
with a clamp lid. Not airtight but tight enough to
prevent anything coming in or out.
We are now baking bread from that flour and no
weevils, creepy crawlies or other nasties. The
expiration date is (HA!) 2002 so if that's anything to
go by we should have dropped dead a few months ago ;-)
Maybe we were lucky to purchase flour that didn't
contain anything to begin with. Maybe the container
prevented anything from hatching.
If there were threads developing in there it would be
fungii so inedible. Bit the flour smells good, bakes
good and tastes good.
Bought a Dutch oven today. When I figured out how it
exactly works will bake some bread from that very
flour and see how it comes out.
Other dry products we've put in a large 120litre
barrel with a very solid clamp lid. All the grain is
in such barrels too. Really no way for moist to get
in.
Heard about people here who fill such barrels (blue
with a black lid and metal clamp) and send stuff to
family in Suriname.
We've got 5 of such barrels and might get more for
water-storage.
Christy
I don't know about the freezer. In 1999 I bought about
20kg of flour. Put it in a see through plastic box
with a clamp lid. Not airtight but tight enough to
prevent anything coming in or out.
We are now baking bread from that flour and no
weevils, creepy crawlies or other nasties. The
expiration date is (HA!) 2002 so if that's anything to
go by we should have dropped dead a few months ago ;-)
Maybe we were lucky to purchase flour that didn't
contain anything to begin with. Maybe the container
prevented anything from hatching.
If there were threads developing in there it would be
fungii so inedible. Bit the flour smells good, bakes
good and tastes good.
Bought a Dutch oven today. When I figured out how it
exactly works will bake some bread from that very
flour and see how it comes out.
Other dry products we've put in a large 120litre
barrel with a very solid clamp lid. All the grain is
in such barrels too. Really no way for moist to get
in.
Heard about people here who fill such barrels (blue
with a black lid and metal clamp) and send stuff to
family in Suriname.
We've got 5 of such barrels and might get more for
water-storage.
Christy