weebles in my flour

[Minxie]

HI all, have just made a bechamel sauce, but just noticed some rather large (now dead) weebles laying in the top of it!!!! I have fished them out, but will it do any harm to me or my kids if we eat any undiscovered ones! Just hoping they dont notice any! Thanks in advance.

[shaneystar2]

Apart from the yuk factor there are good reasons not to use flour or other dry goods that have been infested with weevils, moths and the like. Some insects can produce harmful chemicals, and a heavy infestation can also encourage mould growth, which in turn can produce dangerous toxins. If in doubt chuck it out.

[B00]

rofl- sorry, I know I shouldn't laugh but I have a wonderful vision of Weeble Wobbles in your bag of flour- It's made my day:-)

I so need a life..............

[valsuey]

You beat me to it Boo............not easy to get rid of those Weebles(wobble but won't fall down).

[Ethel]

And sadly you can't see weeble poo.

[gastwo]

Will you lot behave...! LOL

Seriously though, I'd give some thought about why there are weevils in the flour in the first place (assuming you live in UK and not some tropic)

[waimarie]

Where are you Minxie ? The only time I have seen weevils in flour is in the depths of Borneo and then we used to keep everything in the fridge, including flour.

[waimarie]

Sorry, apart from that I certainly would not use the flour for all the reasons listed above.

[Cymbeline]

Tee hee...weebles. The kids should love that!! Really made me chuckle.

[gastwo]

waimarie - you weren't in Balikpapan were you?

(sorry to break the thread Minxie)

[don1]

What has me baffled minxie is how you didn't notice the weevils when you were making the sauce?

[andy-hughes]

You may well have an ongoing infestation. You need to ditch the flour, and everything else that was on the same shelf - even if it's tinne or sealed. Scrub the shelf very thoroughly with disinfectant, leave it a couple of sdays, then do it again, and hopefully that will sort the problem.

[heathfield]

They're protein, and in ship's biscuits, they're what kept our sailors going during the Napoleonic wars!

[LauraLou]

Forgive my thickness but what is a weeble? Tried putting it into Google images, but try it and see what you get!

[nickmo]

Weeble - toy: http://couponing.about.com/od/toysgames/ss/0_3_top_pick_4.htm?iam=dpile_100

Weevil - insect: http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/beetle6.htm

Guess which was in the bag of flour........

[LauraLou]

Eeeww! Thanks nickmo! Don't eat it! Don't eat it!

[Minxie]

hello you lot, Well by the time I had read your replies, we had eaten the bechamel and (through thorough investigation) I hope! no more weebles.

don 1, I dont know how I missed the weebles, on their arrival into my sauce. They just suddenly appeared!

And its a newish bag of flour too! But nikmo I wished I now had'nt read your info on weebles.LOL

andy... now you are scaring me! luckily weeble infected flour is along side my poor selection of home baking. Which is used rarely.

But thanks for your replies, it gave me a titter.

[Minxie]

p.s. are'nt they called weebles then?

[waimarie]

Hi gastwo, (sorry MInxie!!) No, we were in Brunei for over ten years. Proud member of BH3 with over 300 runs. Happy days !!

[Greedyfly]

You get weevils in flour once it has been sat for a good while (months generally) Personally I throw out the flour and buy new as I dont actually know what weevils are therfor I dont trust the fact that I should be eating them. Nor were they in my flour when I bought it - so surely they shouldn't be there.

[Greedyfly]

I find them often and I am in UK