I keep getting flower mites in the flower i buy for my home baking has anyone any idea's ??

Question

I have tried leaving the flower in the containers supplied and also transferring to my own airtight containers.

Answer 1

I work in an industrial bakers and flour beetle exists and there's no way of eliminating it, only managing it. There they have food pest control firms in to monitor the situation and spray chemical to attempt to get the situation under control only to find thats its just as bad a month later.If you're using sealed containers for the flour then you're probably buying flour with unhatched eggs in it.

Use the flour quicker or buy smaller bags more often and there will be less chance of them appearing as well.

Answer 2

The shouldn't be getting into airtight containers.

I have two suggestions.

If you keep buying the same brand of flour then don't - chances are that is your problem - I know its only flour and paying more for it than a few pence seems silly - bit in this case buying a more expensive (organic?) one might solve the problem.

Alternatively then it must be something in your house. Clean out your cupboards. Wash them thoroughly with very hot soapy water and then dry. Throw out anything that is flour base - stock and soup bases, pasta, seasonings anything like that. Do not put anything back in the cupboards for a couple of days and then re-stock.

Good luck

Answer 3

Well it is flour not flower for a start. The flour mites are not likely to be getting into your flour in your house but certainly in the mill where the flour is produced. I have experienced flour or forage mites in animal cereal feeds but not in flour intended for human consumption. I would take the flour back to the retailer and make a complaint. The mill or mills involved should be cleared out and treated with insecticide.

Answer 4

Always Keep your flour in the freezer in a freezer bag . It helps from keeping the bugs out but most of all it enhances the baking and other things you use it for. It makes it lighter for some reason . Put it in your freezer and check it after a day or two and you Will see it feels like silk it works much better in recipes.

Answer 5

incorrect type, yet will answer the question besides. place flower in a super plastic field with an air tight lid. place a bay leaf, which you ought to have will assume you cook dinner besides as bake, on the final of the flour. this might shop out the mites out of flour, rice, oats and it even works with fowl seed and would not exchange the style in any of the meals, unsure with regard to the fowl seed however the fowl would not *****,attempt this it works.....sturdy success.......P.S. unsure the place you reside yet trojan horse bombs are unlawful in Canada because of the harm they do on your lungs and pets while you're no longer out of the domicile for the mandatory time, think of roughly this in the previous attempting it sssshhh

Answer 6

Check the date of the flour. It could be out of date. Suggestion: cut a section off the packet in future and stick it on the container you use and add the use by date.

Answer 7

Air tight containers are a good idea. We transfer our flour into air tight containers and then place those containers in the freezer. Store flour and sugar in the freezer keeps the bugs out of it and keeps your flour fresher longer. =) Good luck!

Answer 8

Alot of times they are in the package when you buy it, try a different store, transfer to rubbermaid and/or keep it in the refridgerator.

Answer 9

if it's flour you get mites in try keeping it in the freezer

Answer 10

They're breeding in your cupboards.
It's F L O U R btw