Wife heard crunching coming from our pantry and narrowed it down to a box of rice. Rice weevils.

    by ministeringinlove

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    1. I have no idea what I’m looking for in this image. It looks like a ball of rice hardened in clay?

    2. Flying_Dustbin on

      “Do you not know that in the service one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?”

      -Jack Aubrey, *Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World*.

    3. I’m confused by this post. The weevils are so uninteresting, it’s not even mildly interesting. The fact that your wife heard them crunching, is wildly interesting. Yeah, I guess on average it evens out to mildly interesting, but I’m not sure this is how it works.

    4. In the Navy, I used to eat those little boxes of cereal in the galley. One time I opened the box, dumped Raisin Bran in the bowl, filled it with milk, and started chowing down. After a couple of bites weevils started floating to the top of the milk.

      I never ate cereal again.

    5. Oof. I had pantry months recently, had to toss so much stuff, they get into jars you think are sealed and make their nests. Frustrating and expensive.

    6. This is exactly why every bag of rice I buy goes straight into the freezer for at least a week before going into the pantry.

      I may be eating dead weevils, but if I don’t see them I don’t care.

    7. Yeah, dumping out some rice or some oatmeal and finding a shitload if bugs in it is an awful bummer.

      You should assume all your grains are always infested when you buy them, at the very least with eggs. Freeze them for two weeks, then keep them in sealed containers in the cupboards after that. The freezing will render the eggs unviable and no more “oh holy fuck well I guess I don’t rice anymore” moments.

    8. sarmstrong1961 on

      I had a large bag of rice that had weevils in it. I can’t imagine how many of those buggers I had eaten before discovering them. I had to refrigerate all non sealed foods for a few months to get them to go away. They’re like ninjas getting into various packaging.

    9. If you are going to keep raw rice for any amount of time, put it in the freezer for a week when you bring it home.

    10. Dry Chilies makes them stay away, but they float in water too. So when you cook rice, they’ll be removed after a couple rinses

    11. We had similar noises coming from our laundry room, and whenever we had the dryer on, weevils would appear outside it.

      Took us weeks to figure out weevils had got into a box of birdseed. The whole box was just a giant mass of weevil, and whenever the dryer was on a few would figure out how to get out of it.

    12. LPT: Bayleaf. Place some dried bayleaf inside your rice containers. It would prevent the growth of weevils.

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