For those who eat a lot of rice, how do you store it?

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Anonymous wrote:Rice is inexpensive enough that I would be disinclined to buy in bags so large they create a storage challenge. Just buy smaller bags.

Do you consider this a novel idea?

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Anonymous wrote:The largest glass jar with the wire/ gasket lid. I don't know what that's called.

I have a whole set of them of various sizes. For beans, dried herbs, etc, and the huge one for rice. Probably holds 5-8 pounds.

But where does this sit? On the counter?

I have a shelf for dry goods. It's a literal bookshelf, but it tucks nicely into a weird window nook in my kitchen. Herbs growing on the top shelf, jars of flours/ sugars/ beans/ rices (I have like six kinds, but only white and brown are in big jars-- wild, sushi, arborio, etc in smaller ones) on the middle two shelves. Bottom shelf for the bigger pots.

It's a small city house, but we make do!

[Anonymous]

Stainless steel big containers. I keep whole wheat flour and rice in stainless steel containers. I store around 20 lbs of each.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We buy the 25 pound bags from the Asian store, but I don’t have a good place to put it. It sort of sits in the corner until it is small enough to fit in a cabinet. Just wanted to see if anyone had any novel ideas. TIA.

If you eat a lot of rice, 25 pounds won't last that long, so why worry about it?

[Anonymous]

Rubbermaid container in the cabinet under the countertop of the kitchen island.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I purchased a specialty storage container from amazon, but it still got rice weevil (pretty quickly). Maybe it was a fluke.

Following along for advice from others

Rice weevil would be in the bag to start unfortunately

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We buy the 25 pound bags from the Asian store, but I don’t have a good place to put it. It sort of sits in the corner until it is small enough to fit in a cabinet. Just wanted to see if anyone had any novel ideas. TIA.

If you eat a lot of rice, 25 pounds won't last that long, so why worry about it?

Because then OP is then going to buy another 25 lbs and is looking for a more attractive storage solution than a constant bag of rice in the corner of their kitchen?

[Anonymous]

I store it in the original bag but place the entire thing in a large dogfood bin with wheels that i got from the container store. It works great.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

I buy in 10 lbs bags and keep the bags in my basement fridge.

[Anonymous]

Id use mason jars

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Oooh, I give you a heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We buy the 25 pound bags from the Asian store, but I don’t have a good place to put it. It sort of sits in the corner until it is small enough to fit in a cabinet. Just wanted to see if anyone had any novel ideas. TIA.

If you eat a lot of rice, 25 pounds won't last that long, so why worry about it?

Because then OP is then going to buy another 25 lbs and is looking for a more attractive storage solution than a constant bag of rice in the corner of their kitchen?

Why would you put it in the corner??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We buy the 25 pound bags from the Asian store, but I don’t have a good place to put it. It sort of sits in the corner until it is small enough to fit in a cabinet. Just wanted to see if anyone had any novel ideas. TIA.

If you eat a lot of rice, 25 pounds won't last that long, so why worry about it?

Because then OP is then going to buy another 25 lbs and is looking for a more attractive storage solution than a constant bag of rice in the corner of their kitchen?

Why would you put it in the corner??

Did you read the first post?

I know it’s shocking but not everyone lives in 5000sqft homes with butler pantries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rice is inexpensive enough that I would be disinclined to buy in bags so large they create a storage challenge. Just buy smaller bags.

Some varieties come only in large bags.