Alternative to black & red rice?

[Kakariki]

The grains I buy I must store in the fridge because of the mealmoths. Does anyone else have a problem with them and any ideas of ways to control them, preferably eradicate them? I know they often come in the foods and they are prolific little beggars.

[seagoatdeb]

I hate those darn moths, once you get them it is so hard to get rid of them. I saw some moth traps on an online site and i am going to try those next time I order.

[Wolf]

Thankfully, I have not had this problem. Meal moths require a temperature of 50 degrees F. or above to reproduce and flourish, other than refrigeration it appears that orange peel may help in repelling them in your grain. If you are planning on sprouting any of the grain then refrigeration may actually be a benefit, however if you are not going to sprout the grains perhaps toasting the grain would kill the eggs and any larvae in the grain.

[seagoatdeb]

i think what I have is pantry moths, and they get into all dry food stuffs and they came in human foods. They dont need a high tempertature.

[Kakariki]

I believe meal moths and pantry moths are the same thing. When I googled images to find the name I got for them there were several colorations, varieties, but still the same vermin.

[Wolf]

I forget that you use a different temperature scale 50 deg. F. is the same as 10 deg. C. so it is not a high temperature.

[Kakariki]

In Canada, at my age, we learned imperial measures until about grade 6, then suddenly we switched to metric. I have an understanding of both now, but still need to consult conversion tables at times because anyone older than me (parents aunts, etc...) still talk in imperial as do many recipes, which I grew up with, but many many other things deal with metric.

It is my understanding that most of the world deals in metric now. As much as I still embrace imperial from a young age, mtric does seem more logically based to me, yet I do still sometimes need conversion tables

[seagoatdeb]

I forget that you use a different temperature scale 50 deg. F. is the same as 10 deg. C. so it is not a high temperature.

Ha ha, yes although I grew up with F, Canada chaged it to C, so it mixed me up....lol

[Wolf]

I have to use conversion tables all of the time.