These are better because they have a silicone seal...truly air tight.

https://www.containerstore.com/s/anchor-hocking-montana-glass-canisters/d?productId=10029994&q=Glass%20jar%20silicone

Starr somewhere I have the ones in your link in 3 sizes. I really like them. The mouth is wide and the lids tighten well.

Here in the south due to bugs, flour, cereals, etc. must be kept in the fridge. I have a lidded plastic container that we use.

I actually have some of these jars that were my grandmother's! I have replaced all of the seals with new ones and cleaned up the hinges but they are wonderful. Heavy thick glass. I keep my rice in the freezer. I used to keep my flour in there too till I started using these jars. I got pantry moths from my birds seed. I like to never got rid of them. I made sure I didn't move any here with me.

I bought 2 brand new bags of flour at Kroger after the flood to replace mine and both bags were full of pantry moths! They were crawling out of the bag. I threw them in the trash outside immediately and called Kroger to let them know that they had a pantry moths infestation.

I use zip lock plastic bags and store in refrigerator.

When I bring a sack of flour home from the grocery store, it gets stored in the freezer till I need to open it. Then I pour it into a large Tupperware container with a tight fitting lid, the kind that you can "burp." The containers are not decorative, but I keep the flour and sugar in my pantry and they don't have to look pretty. They just have to work. I have not had any problems.

Mine is kept in the refrigerator in a hinged lid plastic flour container after opening, but kept in the freezer until then.

I freeze rice and flour when I first bring it home, then it gets stored in a large plastic rectangular bucket with airtight lid I keep a decorative cookie jar on the counter filled with flour.

My flour's are kept in the freezer in large canning jars. I hate pantry critters and have found the eggs in grains will hatch even in a frig, and much less likely to in the freezer. I store all grains and nuts this way and all in glass...somewhere maybe Grainslady said never store grains in plastic, but I don't remember why LOL. I keep no more than 5# of all purpose flour in the kitchen, all the others in freezer. I would love to be able to mill my own flour's.

I use both of the Anchor Hocking jars linked for rice & pastas and bread flour. I keep all purpose flour in a ceramic counter canister and in my mom's vintage aluminum canister in the pantry.

Like Jasdip, I put flour in the freezer for a couple days after purchase.

Anyone know how long flour keeps in the freezer? We don't use much at all so keep it in a Rubbermaid container in the freezer and only pull it out when we need it. I probably should just pitch it and get some fresh. Maybe for Thanksgiving :-)

I believe flour lasts from one to two years in the freezer. I keep large bags of flour/rice/beans/sugar in the freezer and maybe 8 cups worth in a tupperware in the kitchen.

Read a older post over in cooking where grainlady says 6 months but never longer than a year.

I have stainless canisters with vey tight fitting lids - never found a bug. The rest goes in ziplock bags in the freezer.

grainlady_ks

1. Bleached and unbleached flour has a shelf-life of 6-12-months (depending on how old it was when purchased and the temperature of the storage area). You can double that time by freezing it. 'Room temperature' for food storage is considered 70-degrees F. Optimum storage temperature is between 40-60-degrees F. If storage temperature is above 70-degrees F, the shelf-life is going to be less. I suggest buying no more than what you can realistically use in a year. Old flour makes horrible baked goods and is often the reason for failed bread recipes.

Thank you for your input. I'm going to our local cooking/restaurant/gadget store today to see if they have anything. I specifically want glass, not plastic.

in a perfect world/kitchen/pantry, everything would be in some kind of coordinated container... not happening. though not prettiest, i like good old t-ware... any square/rectangular container.

on pests... NOT an expert on pantry moths, but have a feeling they're already lurching in stuff, just waiting to let their presence be known??

my "pantry" used to be a wire shelving unit in my attached garage. if items weren't in a can, bottle or jar, they went into some sort of heavy-duty storage container. before holiday baking season, went to see what i had on hand so i didn't end up with 20 lbs of flour. as i walked into garage/pantry, could easily see a 5 lb bag of something on a shelf... in one of those clear, plastic shoe-box containers. the lid had a HOLE GNAWED thru and about half a 5 lb bag of flour was GONE!

Lucille, that's not the one I read but it works lol

I use the same type jars as ravencajun. I often find them at Goodwill and yard sales. I keep new rings on hand and change the rings out on the used jars I buy. I have them in everything from half pints up to the really large size.

I also freeze flour(wheat & rye). Two years is fine. Then keep white flour in an airtight plastic tupperware container in the cabinet. I use about 5lbs every 8 weeks.

I do exactly what Sheilajoyce does. My flours, cornmeal, etc go in the freezer for at least 2 days which iirc is how long it takes to kill any larva that might exist. Then it goes in my ancient Tupperware canisters, which are avocado green. That should tell you how old they are. They still work great.

Freezer.

Freezer here, too!

I helped a friend clean out her infested pantry some years ago and was pretty amazed to find larvae inside everything, including anything stored inside a Tupperware container! The worst was finding tiny squirming larvae inside a closed jar of peanut butter.

My experience with her was the impetus behind big changes in my own storage practices.

A lot of times, the big bags of pet food are infested as well.

I keep spare bags of dog food in the freezer. All that effort and the dogs still eat bugs when they find them outdoors.

Jasdip, it's good that you mentioned the pet food, jasdip. Dry pet food and treats are a big source of contamination. The worst offender, however, is bird seed!

I use the exact one shown by the OP in the first post. Works just fine, no problems.