Ideas for storing bagged grain - mouse proof?
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If the grocery stores no longer had ANY bags .....
Comments (29)Here in Montreal, over the last year, there has been a seachange from disposable to reusable bags in grocery stores. One store started providing high quality cloth (or plastic-impregnated strong paper) reusable bags for a dollar. The bags were so gosh-darned useful that people started buying them and using them not just for groceries, but for carrying stuff all over the place, advertising the name of the store as they went. The other stores quickly got involved, and started competing to make more and more attractive ones, so it was their bag that was being carried, not the competition. The plastic bags are still available for people that want them, but carrying one makes you a pariah on the street. This time last year, you would see hundreds of those bags stuck in trees and streetlights, breaking down in alleys and filling trash cans. Not any more - the combination of real utility (the bags are actually very good - I use them to carry things to work, for luggage, in the garden, lugging tools in my workshop, and for storage when homebrewing), low cost (the bags are printed with the store's name, so it's free advertising) and social stigma seems to have corrected this problem in a very big way. One unexpected problem that has arisen is that I used to use those plastic bags as trash bags. Now, I find myself buying real plastic trash bags, which is a habit I have to break....See MoreMouse Infestation. Species? [PICS]
Comments (34)Hi, i was lay in bed about a week ago and heard a rustling underneath me, having a small dog that likes to roam the house at night i thought nothing of it. When i heard the rustling again and the dog was downstairs i panicked,(scared to death of creepy crawlies..lol.) I called for my husband who was watching television downstairs and we stood and listened for more rustling and there it was again. So my husband armed with the kitchen sweeping brush lifted the bed and a frantically ducked my head underneath and saw a small mouse scurry under the skirting board. So after sleeping on the sofa (lol) the next morning i went and bought some poison and poured it through the hole under the carpet (huge hole, cant believe ive never noticed it)and obviously blocked up the hole. Since then i have noticed dropping in my kitchen near the backdoor, i saw a mouse scurry from behind my fireplace in the living room and can still hear the rustling under the bed but everytime we try and inspect the mouse dissapears. I have phoned my local council (pest control) and they have arranged for someone to come out on monday afternoon. I'm such a puff and am frightened to stay in my home (My husband is worse than me) but we also have a 2 year old daughter and it is hard to stay with friendsand family but i cannot sleep knowing there their. Any idea how long it will take for all the mice to be gone with a exterminator coming in? in the mean time i have put poison down but am restricted to where i can put it due to having a child and a dog. HELP!?!?! im so frustrated by it all....See MoreWhat is Occident flour? Need ideas for 10 Grain flour too.
Comments (4)Make bread with the occident flour. From the label, the occident flour is bromated (potassium bromate). Years ago it was common for flour to contain bromates and iodates, which are dough conditioners, and they gave bread dough more extensibility. That's when "double" was the common standard to allow dough to rise. Now, without bromates in flour, it's best to only allow dough to rise to just UNDER double or you chance over-proofing the dough. There was an anti-bromate movement and California banned bromates in flour and it has been removed from most commercial flour products. It has been replaced with ascorbic acid. The malted barley flour in the occident flour will add a bit of a nutty flavor. If it was diastatic barley malt, that contributes enzymes that break down the big molecules of starch into the simple sugars that yeast can use. As for the 10-grain flour, check out recipes at Bob's Red Mill (scroll down the page - just before the reviews): Vegan 10-Grain Pancakes Banana Pecan Coffee Cake 10-Grain Yogurt Quick Bread Craig's World Famous Natural Granola (or Bars) Because there are a number of low-gluten and gluten-free grains/seeds/beans in the 10-grain mixture, you need to be mindful of that for making a yeast bread with it. Use it in combination with a high-gluten bread flour for bread so you have enough gluten available (start by substituting 20-25% of the bread flour with 10-grain flour). It will work for quick breads and cookies because of the lower gluten level. -Grainlady Here is a link that might be useful: 10-Grain Flour - Bob's Red Mill...See MoreThank you, Dcarch, for produce bag idea
Comments (6)Sleevendog-- Thanks for the caution. I didn't mean to say I use only the thin bags in the freezer EXCEPT for the catfood which is kept for only a month and individual servings are wrapped tightly in plastic and then placed in a large bag. So far the catfood shows no sign of freezer burn since there is very little air in each small pack. I can easily repack into a ziplock freezer bag instead of the large produce bag if there is a problem. Just thought I'd try this and see. I also I didn't mean to say I don't wash the vacuum bags and ziplock freezer bags, which are the only ones I would ever reuse. When I empty them, there is sometimes a slight odor in them (a sign of some retained material, although slight), but I have yet to see any visible staining. I do ALWAYS wash vacuum bags and ziplock freezer bags with soapy water and a hot rinse after emptying them. I don't reuse any that show staining or retain an odor. It is just SO much easier to wash the expensive bags if they have been protected by an inner bag. I very seldom have to throw away a vacuum bag any more unless it is not the ziplock kind and has grown too small to use. Love the vacuum bags with a zipper for access and a "port" for sealing. Don't mind that they cost 80 cents or so if I can reuse them several times, and they are so easy to open, remove an item that is individually wrapped, and revacuum seal the remaining. You might consider them for your fish catches. No need to sacrifice that precious inch or after every opening. I don't know how often they can be resealed. So far, some have been resealed five or six times and are still holding fine in the freezer. I just packed 3 qts of turkey and chicken stock. First froze it about 1" deep in 8"pans, broke it into quarters, packed them in the penny fold-top sandwich bags, and then stored them all in two large vacuum ziplock bags. Easy to remove a single cup-sized block and re-vacuum-seal. So much more space efficient and accessible than freezing liquids in 1 qt plastic containers, which I used to do. Much better than pouring the liquid straight into a vacuum bag, which I also have done in the past. Again, a GW idea for which I am grateful. I am sure the idea of using protective inner bags is widespread. But it never got into my thick head until dcarch posted it. And, by the way, wish I had access to an occasional catch of fresh fish. My brother fishes summers on the Pacific, out for several days at a time, and my father was an avid recreational fly fisherman. Many, many great means from those two! This post was edited by Bellsmom on Mon, Dec 9, 13 at 19:03...See Moreanimal_lover_grower
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