Creepy Crawlies In A Box Of Rice.

[Tilly2]

Last night I made, for the first time ever, a Thai Green chicken curry. That was going well.

I took a previously opened box of Thai sticky rice from the cupboard and got out my scales to weigh the amount. When I poured the rice into the weighing pan, I noticed lots of little black flecks on the surface of the rice. Initially, I thought it may have been husks but I decided to leave it in the weighing pan for a while and see what happened. All the black specks disappeared. They had burrowed down under the surface!

Fortunately, I had some different, uncontaminated rice and cooked that.

The other box went in the bin!

I have just spent a delightful ten minutes researching rice and cereal pests. That was amusing.

[Old_Geezer]

Can happen :-( Wonder if they got into your box when you opened it, or, heaven forbid, were there all the time.

Maybe airtight Tupperware (or similar) is the way to go ?

[Hopkirk]

That's the protein

[Old_Geezer]

Probably all good protein anyway.

[Jahulaye]

Sooo... what were those creatures?

[Tilly2]

It could have been a number of them, Jahulaye. I really don't know.

[Tilly2]

All my other packets of rice are in a tupperware container. This was one that was tucked away, forgotten, at the back of the cupboard. I won't do that again. It was very disconcerting!

[Jahulaye]

Reminds me of a vampire movie when they’re eating rice and when he looks back at the box it’s wriggling maggots, ewwww

[Tilly2]

The way they disappeared! It was like a magic trick.

[Jahulaye]

oh God I wish I’d never googled this now

[Tilly2]

Exactly, Jahulaye. Horrible isn't it?

[Tilly2]

Actually, it wasn't as bad as that but it was definitely unpleasant.

[Jahulaye]

It’s enough to make you want to construct a homemade flame thrower

[Tilly2]

I constructed a bin thrower!

[Jahulaye]

Lol, I’d incinerate the bin too just to be on the safe side, lol

[ladybirder]

Was it past its Use By date Tilly?

[Tilly2]

It was past its Best Before date, LB. It serves me right for keeping it stashed away at the back of the cupboard.

[jno]

the face of true weevil

[Tilly2]

Good one, Jno!

[Purist]

I had a similar experience with a pack of flour, the bugs had also spread to the cupboard itself!

[Tilly2]

That's my job for the day then, Purist. Checking the cupboard. :-(