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Offline franksolich

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primitives freeze flour
« on: December 12, 2008, 04:16:35 AM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x51227

Oh my.

The primitives, always on the lookout for a bargain.

Too bad they're not as vigilant on the lookout for political corruption.

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GardeningGal  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-11-08 08:01 PM
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Free shipping at King Arthur Flour right now.

It's good through 12/13/08 on orders of $60 or more. Check out code is CHILLY8. Here's the link if anyone is interested.

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop-home-b.html

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hippywife  (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-11-08 08:24 PM
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1. Wow!

What a deal this is!

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/detail.jsp?select=C...

Wish I had a chest freezer.

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eridani  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-11-08 08:49 PM
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2. Do you need to freeze it?

Also, what are the advantages of this brand?

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hippywife  (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-11-08 08:55 PM
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3. I would have to because it would take me at least a couple of months to get through it, I'm thinking. It's supposed to be very good quality flour. Some people swear by the brand. Me, I haven't noticed that big a difference since I tend to mix my flours with each other, i.e. adding whole wheat, whole wheat pastry flour to a recipe. I probably use more bread flour these days than anything else.

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AZDemDist6  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-11-08 11:21 PM
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4. yes, freeze flour as the oils from the kernals will go rancid on you

KA flour is good for baking anything and everything and it's not cheap usually

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Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Fri Dec-12-08 12:15 AM
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5. I find there's a huge difference between it and the white flour in bulk at the food co op. It is a little higher in protein, meaning the gluten develops faster and is stronger.

I only used the bulk flour when I was too poor to pay extra for King Arthur, and it does cost extra out here in New Mexico.

I dunno; it looks like the primitives re-invented the wheel again.

Since he was a teenager, franksolich has always stashed all groceries not coming in cans or jars, in the refrigerator.  Everything from bread to breakfast cereal to pasta to sugar to saltine crackers--i.e., not only those things usually refrigerated, but also those things coming in cardboard boxes or paper sacks.

This was because the second place where I lived on my own as a teenager, a "modern" "new" apartment building liked by college students, there appeared some sort of little white worm, or larvae, in the cupboards that ate through cardboard and paper and even thin plastic.

I've never lived in a place with that problem since then, but it's always made sense, there being much more room in refrigerators than in cupboards.

Common sense.
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Re: primitives freeze flour
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2008, 12:13:44 PM »
These guys: http://entweb.clemson.edu/cuentres/cesheets/grain/ce97.htm kept me employed in the early 80's (rice fumagation). Very common in households and as you found, keeping grain products in the fridge, keeps them away.
As the DUmmies noted they can and do eat holes right through packaging.









edit: The large Mason type glass containers work very well, also.
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Re: primitives freeze flour
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2008, 02:37:53 PM »
Drop a few bay leaves in flour, corn meal, rice or any other grain  and that will keep the bugs away. Why waste valuable fridge room??
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Re: primitives freeze flour
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2008, 03:18:01 PM »
Quote from: Thor on December 12, 2008, 02:37:53 PM
Drop a few bay leaves in flour, corn meal, rice or any other grain  and that will keep the bugs away. Why waste valuable fridge room??

I've had a tendency to, uh, rent places with rather large refrigerators.

I'm sure it's only a coincidence, such random happenings happen.

The one here's monstrously large.

And I'm only one person.
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Re: primitives freeze flour
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2008, 03:28:53 PM »
I never thought of storing flour in the refrigerator.  I was always told to store flour in the freezer so that is where I always store it when I have extra.  If I happen to get flour and find when I get home that my container that I keep flour in is full (I hardly ever do this) I will put the flour in the freezer.  We have two refrigerators (both side by side with freezers) and the one we keep in the garage (our old fridge) we keep all of our soda, beer, juice and extra milk when I happen to pick one up and we haven't finished the other one yet.  I also store things that stink like left over pizza.  I can't stand opening the fridge and smelling ANYTHING.  I don't like the fridge in the house to be all full of crap so I don't like to keep the drinks in there except for the milk.  That also keeps the kids from opening it too many times so I don't get as many grimy finger prints on the stainless steel.
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Re: primitives freeze flour
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2008, 03:39:27 PM »
Quote from: BEG on December 12, 2008, 03:28:53 PM
I never thought of storing flour in the refrigerator.  I was always told to store flour in the freezer so that is where I always store it when I have extra.  If I happen to get flour and find when I get home that my container that I keep flour in is full (I hardly ever do this) I will put the flour in the freezer.  We have two refrigerators (both side by side with freezers) and the one we keep in the garage (our old fridge) we keep all of our soda, beer, juice and extra milk when I happen to pick one up and we haven't finished the other one yet.  I also store things that stink like left over pizza.  I can't stand opening the fridge and smelling ANYTHING.  I don't like the fridge in the house to be all full of crap so I don't like to keep the drinks in there except for the milk.  That also keeps the kids from opening it too many times so I don't get as many grimy finger prints on the stainless steel.

Yeah, this refrigerator has a superlarge freezer too.

I probably didn't make it clear enough when I mentioned putting things in the refrigerator, as I put things in both the "refrigerator" and its freezer.

I just checked; the freezer's full of packages of pasta, frozen corn, frozen peas, frozen hash-browns, $198.37 in Canadian coinage, and some loaves of rye bread; just jampacked full.

When I come home from the grocery store (as I did about an hour ago, stocking up for the Big Freeze that's coming this way on Sunday), I open both doors to the refrigerator, and just jam them in wherever.

Of course, I can get away with this because the refrigerator's very large, and I'm only one person (what the cats eat doesn't need protected); if more than one person were involved, I'm sure there'd be complications.

You know, I don't recall how my college roommates and I ever handled this; even with five guys, the refrigerator never got packed, and so when we got beer, there was plenty of room therein for that, lots and lots of that.

And earlier than that, when growing up at the tail-end of a big family, the refrigerators seemed adequate, and more; there was a rule that no leftovers more than 24 hours old were to be put in there, and so maybe that had something to do with it.

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Re: primitives freeze flour
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2008, 07:22:27 AM »
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extra milk when I happen to pick one up and we haven't finished the other one yet.

snort...had to laugh at this one, sorry.  Wer have an extra fridge in the garage, as well, but we usually have 4 or so extra gallons of milk in it, and I'm lucky if I'm not back at the store at least every 4 or5 days or so so we don't run completely out!
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