rice bugs....yuck. what to do?
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Anonymous
| Found nasty rice weevils in my basmati rice. What to do about it? Throw it all out? But I'm sure the next batch will have it too. Or give up rice eating altogether? Arsenic, bugs...what next? Yuck. |
Anonymous
| Return it to the store. We found that one ethnic grocery had bugs in all of its brands of rice. We went to another store and the rice was fine. |
Anonymous
| Yep, return it. |
Anonymous
| OP here. Bought it about a month ago, at one of 2 Indian stores - don't remember which one. And I threw away the original packaging and put it in a nice Snapware container. My instinct at this point is to throw out the entire container, take a shower and rock myself for a bit. Yuck. Btw, I purport to be vegan. |
Anonymous
| Control of weevils involves locating and removing all potentially infected food sources. Rice weevils in all stages of development can be killed by freezing infected food below -17.7°C (0°F) for a period of three days, or heating to 60°C (140°F) for a period of 15 minutes.[ |
Anonymous
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I would ditch it and get a different brand.
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Anonymous
| You can eat them very eco friendly |
Anonymous
| Freeze it and use. |
Anonymous
| Gross! Guess you are out $10. Throw it out and don't buy any dry goods at that store again, they probably have all kinds of bugs (like those moths you get in flour and ground corn, roaches that creep out from the folds in the bottom of boxes and paper grain bags.) |