MacedWindowLeaky bags
johannesvanderwhalesWell you should be transferring it to a better vessel when you get home anyway. Flour really wants to be in something airtight.
In my experience flour doesn’t care (as long as it is stored dry). Ne neither.
Oh, like my caboose
SubArcticTundraI wish the shop just had each beand of flower in massive barrels and you could bring your own containers and fill them up. This would eliminate the need for packaging altogether.
Edit: I just realized I described eco-shops
RivenOr old school bodegas.
The Winco near my house has exactly this. Pretty sure PCC does too for like 8x the price.
JimboTf is an eco-shop?
I think he’s talking about a shop like that, where you bring your own container to fill them.
owatnextPeople leave it in the paper bags? What a bad idea lol.
Ok let me just quickly transfer these 10 kg of 4 different types of flour I bought into a bunch of containers
SigntistI just buy 50 lbs of all-purpose flour, throw it in a big, wheeled food-safe container marketed for dog food, and use it for nearly everything that calls for flour. I’ve never had a problem with my breads or cakes while using all-purpose flour. I still need gluten-free flour and some specialty stuff like corn flour and almond flour for some recipes, but those come in nice, resealable bags.
BigFigYes that’s what people do
TrickDacyGood idea. Not sure what you need 4 new types of flour at a time but good idea nonetheless
Bread and pizza
southsamuraiI mean, yah. If you’re going to be baking enough to merit 10kg of multiple flours, you absolutely want them in separate containers. Even if you only have the AP, bread, and cake flour trio that covers most baking needs, you’ll want them stored in airtight containers.
It ain’t even that hard or slow; my crippled ass with arthritis can do it fine. Well, it hurts, but I don’t lose enough flour to matter.
American naming conventions confuse me. We just call the flour by what it’s made of: wheat, rye, spelt and their grade of refinement.
Bread flour? You can make bread out of so many different types of flour.
They have different protein content. Your country almost certainly has an equivalent system, perhaps with more descriptive names.
Yep. We have a type number, that describes how many mg of ash are left behind after burning 100g of said flour.
Since starch burns away cleanly, the amount of ash shows how much of the rest of the grain is still in the flour (the rind or the germinating part).
So it would be “wheat flour type 450” which is more refined than “wheat flour type 1050”. More refined means it rises better. But there’s lots of healthy and tasty stuff in the rind, so if it’s not a sponge cake I’m making, I try to incorporate higher types.
OK. We’ll start using single-use plastic.
Lifecoach5000Can we get some extra micro thrown in for our balls?
Of course, for an extra 10 cents on the dollar.
(it was already included)
I only want microplastics in my balls if it’s lab grown.
Lab grown balls? ~Also the name of my garrage band.~
Hey remember the phase like 10 years ago when shower gel companies were selling shower gel with fucking little plastic balls in it as an exfoliant?! Can you fucking believe that was a thing that really happened fml
Still happens with face cleansers.
☂️-and toothpaste in some places
Those things were plastic?
I though they were like gelatinous or something
I don’t know that there isn’t.
Wow dude I dont know if you know but thats actually really bad for the environment link
snooggumsHow about we start with slightly thicker paper bags that don’t leak as easily first?
HolyhandgrenadeThey recently did that in Norway, it has improved my life by about 1%. You still get the flour explosion when opening a new bag though.
Dozzi92My bag of flour is in a Ziploc bag as we speak. As was the previous bag. The choice between environmentalism and a pantry without flour everywhere is unfortunately an easy one to make for me.
Sounds like you could be doing both, with re-using that ziplock you aren’t unnecessarily contributing to plastic waste.
Oh please god no
We should go back to cloth sacks that we can make dresses out of again!
We’ve gone full circle, my mom has flour pots and my aunt makes dresses (little coverlets) for them.
kamenladycoverlets ( small covers )
Little small covers
mad_asshatterThe grain is harvested, milled, etc., ultimately processed into flour and bagged.
Warehoused, shipped, warehoused, shipped, stored, shelved…then sold to you.
Cue people here telling you it’s not supposed to be in a bag bc “it must know it’s in your house now…”
Usually once it’s bagged, its put on a pallet and shrinkwrapped, effectively sealing it. You absolutely should be using an airtight container once you purchase it.
deegeeseNot sure I want to go back to wooden barrels holding 196lbs of flour.
Cloth sacks are cool too, but packaging cost is a real concern with bulky staples.
Just get a plastic bin.
Important distinction: Get a bin for your house - no sane educated person wants flour to be sold in disposable plastic bins.
(I’m sure you agree, but it bares mentioning in case there are ever any business folk reading this.)
NegativeLookBehindConcrete: I will ruin your fucking life
“What ever you do, do not breath in the concrete dust. We also packaged it in a flimsy paper bag allowing all the dust spill out and enter the air.”
On one hand I get why they do it, you need a lot of bags for larger jobs and trying to put those in plastic containers is extremely wasteful and costly, but they could at least double ply the bags or something.
I’ve dealt with double bags and it absolutely makes a huge difference
Concrete bags are usually two ply, but they are pretty thin. Most of the dust gets shot out the corner when you move them around, especially the ones with the tear-out corner for pouring. They do sell concrete in plastic bags though, great for wet weather but they can get kind of slick. For the bigger jobs you get a mixer truck delivery.
It is adequate.
It performs it’s function.
No need for extreme consumerism & garbage production.
It’s biodegradable, renewable, and only needs to get from the manufacturer to your cabinet, where it can be replaced with heartier permanent storage.
And it also needs to leave everything inside my backpack coated in a thin layer of flour.
What I don’t get is why they put it in a single two-layer paper bag instead of two single-layer paper bags, which would clearly be more effective.
Why didn’t you wrap it with another bag, or your reused plastic one? This seems like a non-issue user error.
Skill issue
Real environmentalists just pack the flour into their jeans pockets to avoid unnecessary paper waste
Classic Hank Scorpio
Into their jeans pockets up their asses
FTFY
I just put it straight into my mouth to avoid the extra cleaning and energy of cooking.
candyman337Real environmentalists keep a little dirt under their pillow for the dirt man, in case he comes to town.
You joke but bulk stores exist where you can literally just take your own container and avoid the crappy leaky bags altogether.
Annoyingly they’re basically deli prices in my city
Same for sugar, it’s really annoying that so many things have switched to plastic. Gram crackers, Ritz and Saltines all used to be in waxed paper when I was a kid and were fine.
Now they switch to plastic, but make sure it’s tinted to mimic the old paper versions.