Kitchen

[Mom2Dogs]

I store my staples, flour, sugar, b. soda, cornstarch in old mason jars with zinc lids....big ones for the flour and sugar and small ones for the other dry items.  I have an antique 2 handled wire basket, that the jars sit in, on my counter top.

[Yahooey]

I store my flour and sugar in Sistema with 1 cup measurement included.

[Carmie]

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@alicedeewrote:

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@x Hedgewrote:

I still use a trio of stacking Tupperware containers.

One for flour, one for sugar, and the third for Bisquick.

They must be from '65-'75, because they're the bright orange from that era. The lids are still flexible and the "one finger" Seal & Burp still works like new.

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Gotta love that old Tupperware...I still use that green colander I bought in 1974!

My flour is stored in a Lock and Lock bin with an opening that lets you scoop from the side near the top.   

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I have a set of them still like new in the avocado green color.  I use them to store cookies, etc, but not as canisters for sugar and flour anymore

[Carmie]

Does anyone other than me  put a bay leaf in with the flour?

[janeec]

I use Lock 'n Lock.  A trick I learned many years ago, and it works, is to put your newly purchased flour in the freezer for at least 48 hours (or you can store it there until you are ready to use it.)  This kills any eggs from bugs and you will never have bugs in your flour.  It only takes once to open your flour and see it crawling to never want to see it that way again.

[Desertdi]

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@janeecwrote:

I use Lock 'n Lock.  A trick I learned many years ago, and it works, is to put your newly purchased flour in the freezer for at least 48 hours (or you can store it there until you are ready to use it.)  This kills any eggs from bugs and you will never have bugs in your flour.  It only takes once to open your flour and see it crawling to never want to see it that way again.

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@janeec  You can say that again!    One run-in with "cereal bugs" was enough for me.

[debic]

1/2 gallon canning jars, vacuumed.   I buy flour in 25lb bags and put it all in jars and store in my cold room.

[Patriot3]

I keep mine in my old Tupperware canister from years ago and keep it in the refrigerator to keep the bugs out.  I don't use a lot of flour and I know by keeping it in the ref, it will stay.

[giddy up]

I started storing in lock and lock containers in the freezer after finding those little black bugs one time when I stored in more conventional counter top stoneware containers.   I rarely have a use for flour but so far when I reach into the freezer, no more bugs.

I considered doing this for sugar, but having it in the stoneware counter top containers with the plastic seal on the lid has been fine.  Not sure why sugar is less prone but is seems to be.   Guess there are few if any bug eggs in sugar cane.

[JeanLouiseFinch]

I always appreciated the look of canister sets, but over time I realized they were kind of impractical for me and rethought the whole thing.  I don't have countertop canisters anymore.  Flour and sugar are kept in Lock-n-Locks.