What should I do if cornmeal has bugs?

Corn and other grains are prone to mold or infestation when left for a long time. This is due to improper storage or problems with the raw materials themselves. The most common phenomenon is cornmeal infested with insects, which makes the cornmeal very uncomfortable to eat. Some insects can also be harmful to the body. Therefore, cornmeal infested with insects must be handled with caution. Let's take a look at what to do if cornmeal infested with insects?

1. Freezing deworming method. Cornmeal that has been stored for a long time is most likely to be infested with insects in the summer, while the insect infestation rate is lower in the winter. According to this situation, the remaining rice and flour stored after the winter are put into clean bags and sent to the freezer of the refrigerator in batches to experience the torture of the "cold winter" for 24 hours. The rice and flour treated in this way are not easy to be infested with insects after the arrival of summer. It is probably because rice weevils and noodle weevils cannot withstand the cold and ruthless "winter" and die in the bud.

2. Poplar leaf pest control method. When the rice flour is infested with insects, move the corn flour into a dry, sealed container, and put the freshly picked poplar leaves into the container and seal it together with the rice flour. After four or five days, when you open the storage container, you will find that the larvae and eggs have been killed. You can then filter the rice flour with a dustpan or sieve and eat it.

3. Cool and ventilated method. Insert chopsticks into the infested cornmeal, wait for the worms on the surface of the cornmeal to crawl up, then pull them out and kill the worms. Then, spread the rice flour in a cool and ventilated place, and the bugs deep in the rice flour will crawl out from the rice flour with higher temperature. This method is simple and convenient, but the pest control time is longer.

4. Sifting method. In order to shorten the pest control time, after removing the insects on the surface, you can use a basket woven with bamboo or wicker to remove the insects in the flour; use a sieve woven with bamboo strips to sift out the insects in the rice. Then, spread it in a cool and ventilated place to dry in the sun to remove all kinds of insects in the rice flour.

The reason why Sichuan pepper can repel insects is that it is a natural antioxidant with a special aroma. Rice weevils are very sensitive to smells and avoid this special smell as much as possible. The specific method is: prepare several small pieces of clean gauze, wrap a little pepper shell on each piece, tie them up and place them in the rice or noodles, and place them in different positions of the bag to ensure that they work on the whole bag of rice and noodles.