oh hell.

[rmd]

so, i hadn't been doing a lot of baking recently, but i settled down to start a loaf of bread this morning for my guests this evening, only to discover grain moth carcasses in both my bread flour and semolina containers. the main all-purpose flour seemed to be uninfested, but i tossed it anyways.

sigh.

i haven't seen any live ones out and about, but for all i know the cats are feasting on them.

and now, the cleaning jihad.

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[liralen.livejournal.com]

Turns out, if you put stuff with moth eggs in the freezer for a week, it'll kill the eggs. So buying new, organic stuff, just throw it in the freeze for a while before sticking it in the pantry (after you've done your nuke from orbit work), and it'll keep new infestations from happening.

I now keep all my whole grain things in the freezer, just because of similar problems.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Plus, it keeps the flour fresher longer.

It actually works best if you freeze for a few days, thaw for a couple, and freeze again. At least with wool moths. My understanding (which could well be wrong) is that freezing doesn't actually kill the eggs, it kills the hatchlings. So the first freeze and thaw makes the eggs think "it's spring, time to hatch!" and then the second freeze kills 'em dead.