I often find narrow black bugs in my rice or other cereal products. They are probably some sort of weevil. We just opened a 5lb bag of rice, and it has a lot of them. Usually, I dump a new 5lb bag of rice into a nice metal tin, but I don't want to contaminate the tin with this infestation, nor do I want it to spread to the flour.
The internet suggests throwing away the rice, but that seems awfully wasteful, and it's not that hard to rinse the rice before cooking it, and I'm certain they are harmless to eat if I miss a few. But I'd like to kill this colony so they don't spread. I wondered if "cooking" the rice by putting it in a heat-proof container in the oven would work, and if the rice would still cook properly with water later. Or microwaving it?
Any ideas?
Ginda
in eastern MA, where we have a lot of snow today, and I have time to mess with the rice.
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