This is how using bay leaves will save your pantry from insects/TIKTOK
Why is it necessary and even mandatory to put bay leaves in every closed container in your pantry?
The short answer is that otherwise bedbugs, beetles and weevils will feast on your food.
Flour mites and weevils are common pests in the kitchen that are often found in the pantry and cupboards where we keep dry food.
These food bugs thrive in dark and moist conditions, making the kitchen cupboard the perfect breeding ground for them.
If you have discovered small insects in the flour, it can be quite alarming and even dangerous.
First let's sort things out - food bugs tend to stick to dry foods with a high moisture level - sounds confusing, eh?
There is nothing to do, Israel is a desert country where the level of humidity is high, which attracts these insects to our food.
The most popular is the flour beetle which likes dry and powdery food like flour.
The flour beetle is also very fond of legumes and usually lays its eggs on coffee beans, beans, buckwheat flour, soup powder and can also be found in legumes, spices, cornflakes, tea and coffee, cooking powders of all kinds, drinking powders such as protein, animal feed, Cookies, heating pads with buckwheat, etc.
According to pest control experts, the foods that attract the pests are mainly flour, to which insects are attracted that find a suitable place to lay their eggs.
When the worms hatch from the eggs, they feed on the flour until they mature.
The little insects don't miss the pasta either.
If you've encountered insects in your pasta, sometimes it's because the package was open or there's a possibility that the food bug gnawed its way in from outside the package, while it was closed.
A similar thing happens with semolina - if you come across insects in semolina, know that semolina cannot be filtered like flour, because in most cases these are very small insects that are equal in size to the semolina grain itself.
You can pour the contents of the semolina into a bowl and sort out the semolina grains like you sort lentils or rice, but it is important to use a bowl with a neutral color that is not white or black since the semolina is white and black or white insects may appear in it as well.
A food bug can also be found in different types of legumes such as peas, beans and lentils.
The insects get to the spices in two ways: both from the plant from which the spice is made and from penetrating the spice bag in the store or at home.
In rice it is common to encounter a specific insect also known as the rice weevil.
This is a very bad pest for businesses and private homes alike since it can adapt to diverse and difficult living conditions.
The rice weevil spends its entire life cycle inside rice: from infancy, until death.
so what are we doing?
Although the food insects do not sting or bite, their presence in the kitchen without proper treatment can cause destruction and rotting of your food products.
What's more, at some point you may eat the contaminated food and suffer from food poisoning that is accompanied by stomach pains and vomiting - and that's in the best case scenario.
So what do you do if you've spotted a suspicious insect in your food pantry?
If you notice a large amount of insects near your food, you will have to get rid of all the parts of the food infected by the insects and throw it in the trash outside your house. You can even freeze some of the food to eliminate some of the insects, but know that you will have to wash the food after defrosting from remaining insects. In the next step, clean Clean the cabinet thoroughly with soapy water (bleach can be used very carefully) and then there is probably no escape from calling an exterminator who will eliminate them quickly and effectively. More on this
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, but wait, maybe you could have avoided all of this in advance with a very simple trick? The baker Laura, who has a successful Instagram page with hundreds of thousands of followers, presented a video in which she wrote: "This is an old trick that my mother used to do as long as I can remember.
Although I replenish my flour supply every week, I always put bay leaves in all my food containers.
The smell from the bay leaves keeps the flour mite away and repels pests in the pantry.
And no, it does not affect the taste of the ingredients!
You can use them in any dry food - even add some to your bag of flour if you don't use a special container to store it."
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Her tip was reinforced in the food magazine slurp where they wrote that bay leaves are an excellent deterrent to storing in the pantry.
Their strong aroma is a natural insect repellent that deters both mealworms and weevils.
"Just place bay leaves on the pantry shelves or inside the containers and the insects will think twice before they invade your food. This is a simple and aromatic way to keep your culinary treasures safe in the pantry and prevent the appearance of insects."
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