What should I do if the rice or millet bred bugs, worms? Why? And how to store cereals will understand further.
Cereals, grain and flour have a fairly long shelf life, but if not properly stored become prey and habitat very unpleasant bugs, worms and other vermin.
To avoid this, the owners of cereal stocks have resorted to a variety of tricks.
Check in-store
In order not to have problems with groats and flour at home, look closely to them before buying.
Ideally cereals in the store must be stored in compliance with all sorts of rules and regulations, with low humidity, in whole packages.
If cereals or flour stuck together among grains noticeable black dots, and even more so - the bugs or worms - to buy such a product is not worth it.
But often sell cereals in paper bags or cardboard boxes, making it difficult to check.
Here it is only to look at the date of issue and cereals recommended shelf life.
I brought it home - turned out it's alive!
After buying some experienced hostess recommended to fry grits in the oven.
Quality of cereals it does not hurt, but the larvae of beetles, if they are still there in the rump, will be able to get rid of.
Others advise to hold the grains in the freezer.
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The logic here is - the cold is fatal for the beetles and larvae.
Just keep cereals in the freezer is not necessary, it is sufficient to four days.
If it happens in the winter, bring cereals onto the balcony - it's more convenient because there is more space and freezer will be free.
It may also be an effective treatment of cereals by calcining for 5 minutes in a microwave oven.
In any case, the newly purchased cereals should be checked.
Although the production and measures are taken to prevent contamination of cereals by insects, trouble happens.
Even clean at first glance, croup can be larvae.
After you have brought the rump of the store, it is better to pour out of the store packaging.
But store cereals and flour in thick plastic bags should not be - they "choke" and acquire an unpleasant odor and taste.
Perforated same packages are not suitable, as there is a danger of cereals dampness or contamination of its bugs. Where did pour?
saving containers
It is best to store the flour and cereal in glass jars or containers with tightly fitting lids or stoppers.
Even our grandmothers knew that in a three-liter glass jar with a lid meal is completely safe.
But the form of cans does not allow rational organization of space, so choose to store bulk products, square or rectangular containers.
Optimally, if a glass container.
But the good will and the rump in a plastic container, especially if it is equipped with rubber pads for a snug lid.
Metal boxes for storage of cereals and flour quickly rust and do not provide the necessary seal.
Containers should not stand in direct sunlight.
Hide them in the closet - so your rump will be more whole.
For greater safety can be put into a container with a few grains cloves of garlic, chili pepper or sheet lavrushki that do not like bugs.
And no harm will pouch with salt, cereal protecting from moisture.
But note that even fine to "pack" the rump is impossible to keep forever.
How long are stored cereals
Those who are engaged in agriculture, will tell you that when properly stored grain can be stored for a long time.
Of course, long-term storage of cereals palatability deteriorates but still quite acceptable.
Yet the majority of cereal from the supermarket should be used within a few months after purchase.
If the cereals are stored in the refrigerator, the term is slightly increased, but it hardly makes sense to store cereals a year or more.
Therefore, in large stocks of flour and cereals special reason not if you do not have places for their storage.
The longest do not lose their qualities of rice and corn.
They can be stored more than a year, but if all the precautions described earlier.
Good stores of wheat, barley, oats and buckwheat, millet but quickly becomes rancid.
Semolina and flour can be stored more than a year, but in the fridge.
If you can not imagine life without strategic reserves of food, use to store grain, cereals and flour a sealed container, and every few months start a review of their treasures.
Stale cereal and replace with fresh, check if there are any signs of infection cereals bugs.
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