Today I Learned...

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Not gonna try that bag trick! Nope! haha I will just keep eating that bag of chips till it's all gone. Problem solved! lol

Chips, popcorn, sure. But when my bag clip succumbed to the fate of desert air and shattered, I started using the roll/fold/flip/tuck method.

These are way too rich/filling to finish off in one or two snacking sessions, and while they still stay crisp where I am, they start tasting stale if left open to the air.

 

[Clara D.]

Chips, popcorn, sure. But when my bag clip succumbed to the fate of desert air and shattered,

Dollar store clothepins last longer and you get a lot of em.

 

[Isabeau]

I didn’t have any cereal but did fid one box of pasta. I liked it. Very clean looking. The cardboard was thick, though, so harder to fold.

 

[danielravennest]

Many of mine are ripped in some fashion, so this isn't working on them, but I'll be more careful now. I always thought I was fancy if I could actually get the little tab to stay in.

I just transfer the entire contents of the box or bag to a glass or plastic container with a tight lid. Bugs are a problem in Georgia, and this keeps them out. 80 oz glass Mt. Olive pickle jars work especially well. I have about a dozen of them. I eat pickles anyway, and get a free storage jar as a bonus. Then I smash the cardboard box as a stress reliever and put it in the trash.

 

[Knutz Scorpio]

Yet more quarantine craziness

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I just crinkle up the inner bag nice & tight. No fuss, no muss.

That's what I do. At least, to the best of my ability, since the damned bags always seem to get ripped to shreds in the process of opening them. Remember when the bag inside cereal boxes were some sort of foil/wax paper thing? Those were easy to open, and stayed tightly closed when folded or rolled.

 

[Isabeau]

I had giant pickle jars, too! But I never seemed to have enough of one thing to fill them with so I gave them away. I kind of regret it. They were nice.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Out of curiosity, I tried the alternat box-top closing method. While it looks somewhat cool, I'm definitely NOT A FAN.


First, the insertive tab seems to lose its flat integrity when shoved back down into a slot near its crease. Forcing cardboard to curve and buckle back on itself weakens it and then it's just kinda mushy and doesn't hold the opening shut as crisply as it should.

Second, when pouring from a cereal box, I pull the liner up so that it's just past the tabs/flaps, so that when I'm done pouring none of the remainder falls back into the box outside of the liner bag. This becomes awkward with inward folded tabs which snarl and catch at the liner bag if you try to slide it out part way. And if you don't then contents gets trapped behind the tabs anyway and falls back into the box outside the liner bag.

Third, once closed there's an upward facing seam/gap into which things might fall or get trapped. They will fall into the contents of the box when you attempt to open it. (presuming you didn't also take the additional step of rolling closed the liner bag inside, which I never felt the need to do.) While there aren't many bugs in my climate I'd rather not create a situation in which they could easily fall into my food.

 

[Tirellia]

If I threaten to use that method on Weetabix or Shredded Wheat boxes I'm going to get a slap. Rightly so

 

[Isabeau]

TIL box closing is much more serious a subject then I would have believed

 

[Isabeau]

 

[Roxanne Blue]

I just crinkle up the inner bag nice & tight. No fuss, no muss.

Sadly, we have more persistent weevils than a tightly rolled inner bag will thwart. We buy a very large box of zip-lock quart bags at the local restaurant store. Empty cereal bag into the plastic one and seal the sip-lock. No bugs no clip or rolling. One bag will usually go a year's refills before you may note a whiff of stale cereal. Then it's time for a new bag. We use such bags to freeze dinner-for-two portions of pasta sauces, chilis, stews, fillings for meat pies, etc.

 

[Clara D.]

I use plastic containers after having some sort of beetle go right through a bag to get at my rice.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

We add bay leaves to stored bulk foods.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Hmmm, I'll have to try bay leaves!

Bugs are so bad here in Florida that you can get them right from the store you bought the product from. I have to freeze Rice and Pasta when I bring them home to make sure there are no weevil eggs in them and then I put them in air tight containers in my pantry.

If I use a glass jar to store wheat based things, I put plastic wrap over the top and the lid on over that because I've even had the wee bastards work their way into glass jars and plastic bags. For rice and pasta, I put some large granual salt into the bottom of the container because that also deters them. (I'll give bay leaves a shot now too).

Bugs are just a way of life in Florida. Every morning that I get up and it's the "battle of the damn bug". Whether it's ants (I like the Spanish name for them better - hormigas, "little horrors") or it's "palmetto bugs" (actually really frigging large roaches) I battle them. From "no see ums" to frigging bugs big enough to carry off your sofa.

This is me, battling bugs

 

[danielravennest]

I use plastic containers after having some sort of beetle go right through a bag to get at my rice.

Ziplocs are OK for refrigerator or freezer, but I use plastic, metal, or glass otherwise. Metal includes kitchen containers made for that purpose and old coffee cans that have been washed out. Unfortunately metal coffee cans are an endangered species. I also use them in the workshop to store hardware.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Bugs are just a way of life in Florida. Every morning that I get up and it's the "battle of the damn bug". Whether it's ants (I like the Spanish name for them better - hormigas, "little horrors") or it's "palmetto bugs" (actually really frigging large roaches) I battle them. From "no see ums" to frigging bugs big enough to carry off your sofa.

Bugs are something I do not miss about Australia. Even in Texas.

 

[Isabeau]

There was a fly bothering me yesterday. Who knew I lived in paradise.

 

[Clara D.]

Ziplocs are OK for refrigerator or freezer, but I use plastic, metal, or glass otherwise. Metal includes kitchen containers made for that purpose and old coffee cans that have been washed out. Unfortunately metal coffee cans are an endangered species. I also use them in the workshop to store hardware.

Next best thing is the red Folger's containers. But I don't really drink coffee anymore.

People on eBay are charging more for empties than it costs to just get a full one.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Bugs are something I do not miss about Australia. Even in Texas.

In my part of California, we get june bugs and cockroaches with attitudes.