I was going to bake bread today but I did not check my flour. I mixed my flour, water, starter and salt and folded it 3 times. On the last fold I noticed a big bulge in the dough. As it turns out, there were worms inside the bag and consequently my bread. The flour bag looked a little bit weird, but I thought that was just because I just moved and thought it got smushed or something. The bag looked odd but the flour seemed fine, however, never in a million years did I expect to find mealworms! I want to cry and don’t feel like restarting today! So, everyone should check their flour before starting their bread 😀 lesson learned!
by qooq15
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Barf!!!
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If you can, once purchased, freeze your bag of flour for about 4 days and then let it get to room temperature in a room without humidity. This should take care of the issue. Otherwise, I would recommend avoiding flours that’s on sale at supermarkets. Those bags of flour have been sitting on the shelves long enough for the eggs in the flour to hatch and permeate throughout the flour. It’s also a good idea to place flour that has been frozen and brought to room temperature into a food safe plastic bucket with a tight seal. This will prevent any new bugs from going into the flour to consume it and lay eggs in it.
I would also avoid buying large quantities of flour if you can’t freeze the bags or work through several bags within 3 months. In that case, buy a bag at a time.
There isn’t much we can do about bug eggs and flour, it comes with the territory and any bag of flour left long enough is going to produce some kind of bug from it, but there are preventative measures (as previously noted).
As an aside, make sure the lids on starters–when kept out on the counter or placed on the counter to get to room temperature straight out of the fridge–have a good seal fruit flies out of it. Oh, how the fruit flies love starter.
They’re not dangerous. They’re perfectly fine to eat – extra protein! But, I get it 😅
😵🤢 now to go freeze all my flour because I didn’t realize this was a thing
But what’s your method?
Yuuuuucccckkkkkk
This needs a spoiler label of something, didn’t wanna see that!!
That’s the protein in high protein flour! 🤣
Just extra protein…. Off putting for sure…. But first world problems as well! In Kandahar thought I was eating raisin bread….. they wasn’t raisins…. Not as sweet…. But didn’t change the actual bread flavour
Protein sourdough
This happened to a cousin! With a batch of pancakes, it was huge too, so sad 😂
That’s for the silky crumb and extra protein
I have been transferring most of my flour into ziplock bags, whatever hatches there should suffocate before it’s big enough for me to notice 🤞
So sorry OP, if you have a friend with chickens or other livestock, you can probably still bake it and donate this loaf for animal feed
Not a Mealworm…. that is a pantry moths. Took us 2 years to really rid them all!
Freeze your flour. Look at everything grain and dried fruit you may have. Spices, too. To this day we still keep our spices in the fridge. Dry foods (dog/cat food, cereal, etc). If you have reptiles, keep an eye on their substrate!
I’d take the way of your discovery of pantry moths than our experience. 🤮😭 but such a pain to remove from your house. Best of luck!
Rise above, embrace higher protein
Does this mean it survived this far with all the manipulation?
Thanks, I hate it.
Oh no! Im so sorry!
When I say “I always sift the flour” and other people are like “that’s not necessary” 🤦 ok
Higher protein content
Eww.
Good advice.
Bad news. You have pantry moths. We recently just got them, and I’ve never had them before in my life. They’re not easy to get rid of. We had to throw away a lot of food.
We discovered ours when I woke up one day to 2 larvae wiggling on my kitchen floor 😭
Protein!
Some extra protein in your bread
Grubs up
Bro same exact thing happened to me yesterday while making a cake… I was so damn frustrated