I like the flour bags, I would hate to have to buy in plastic containers.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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The incredible strength of the glue on those bags guarantees they rip and always make a mess. Flour here is mostly sold in 5lb bags that perfectly fill a gallon jar, at least. I don't mind the paper at all but do you have to glue it down in this arrangement that guarantees ripping, with glue that could hold a bridge together?
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Garbage take. Just fill it into a glass jar at home. Nobody cares about the 0.03g of flour lost leaking out during transport.
Boxes leak more. And plastic with make it mold if there's any amount of water in it.
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Also, i guarantee that there are bugs infesting the flour section of your grocery store and they absolutely hitch rides on the bags home
Former grocery store worker.
Flour isn't stored in sanitary conditions. It's just giant piles in warehouses. This is the real reason that raw cookie dough isn't safe to eat. The eggs are usually fine, it's the flour that's riddled with disease. If you heat it to about 160°F you can eat all the cookie dough you want.
At that point....it ceases to be cookie dough.
Are you saying that substituting apple sauce for eggs doesn't make them safe?
Sorry, I meant that you heat the flour to 160°F, then cool and mix it it into the dough.
And, yes, I'm saying that substituting apple sauce doesn't make it safe.
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Oh. No, thank you.
I could have gone my whole life not knowing that and you just walked right in here and said it.
To be fair to the stores, they arrive in the stores on the bags too.
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9 times out of 10 all that flour on the outside of your bag of flour is not your bag leaking it's because one bag in the palette busted open and got on all the other ones. When you get home, you either transfer the flour into an airtight reusable container, or put the bag inside a 2 gallon zip lock and seal that.
Some techbro needs to start a subscription service for flour pods delivered by drone. Insert them into your $800 flour bank, and then whenever you need flour, you can just use the app to indicate how much the machine should dispense!
edit: the app also provides AI-generated recipes, and every time you use flour you'll automatically earn some FlourCoin cryptocurrency.
You receive flour coins for storing flour in behalf of the flourchain, this is done with a proof-of-flour algorithm.
The flour will be sold in “convenient” disposable plastic containers that each hold 1 cup or 120g.
For an additional fee, drones will pick up the used pods for “recycling” which is actually shipping them to a landfill in southeast asia.
Make sure the containers have DRM so the machine can validate that they are genuine high quality Flourz™ Refill Paks before dispensing the flour. Wouldn't want you to just, like, refill them with inferior flour from Walmart or anything.
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It is adequate.
It performs it's function.
No need for extreme consumerism & garbage production.
Top comment is against the post, but the post has almost no downvotes. What is happening here?
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It's biodegradable, renewable, and only needs to get from the manufacturer to your cabinet, where it can be replaced with heartier permanent storage.
And it also needs to leave everything inside my backpack coated in a thin layer of flour.
What I don't get is why they put it in a single two-layer paper bag instead of two single-layer paper bags, which would clearly be more effective.
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Concrete: I will ruin your fucking life
"What ever you do, do not breath in the concrete dust. We also packaged it in a flimsy paper bag allowing all the dust spill out and enter the air."
On one hand I get why they do it, you need a lot of bags for larger jobs and trying to put those in plastic containers is extremely wasteful and costly, but they could at least double ply the bags or something.
I've dealt with double bags and it absolutely makes a huge difference
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Not sure I want to go back to wooden barrels holding 196lbs of flour.
Cloth sacks are cool too, but packaging cost is a real concern with bulky staples.
Just get a plastic bin.
Important distinction: Get a bin for your house - no sane educated person wants flour to be sold in disposable plastic bins.
(I'm sure you agree, but it bares mentioning in case there are ever any business folk reading this.)
The grain is harvested, milled, etc., ultimately processed into flour and bagged.
Warehoused, shipped, warehoused, shipped, stored, shelved.....then sold to you.
Cue people here telling you it's not supposed to be in a bag bc "it must know it's in your house now...."
Usually once it's bagged, its put on a pallet and shrinkwrapped, effectively sealing it. You absolutely should be using an airtight container once you purchase it.
We should go back to cloth sacks that we can make dresses out of again!
We've gone full circle, my mom has flour pots and my aunt makes dresses (little coverlets) for them.
coverlets ( small covers )
Little small covers
OK. We'll start using single-use plastic.
My bag of flour is in a Ziploc bag as we speak. As was the previous bag. The choice between environmentalism and a pantry without flour everywhere is unfortunately an easy one to make for me.
How about we start with slightly thicker paper bags that don't leak as easily first?
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Can we get some extra micro thrown in for our balls?
I don't know that there isn't.
Hey remember the phase like 10 years ago when shower gel companies were selling shower gel with fucking little plastic balls in it as an exfoliant?! Can you fucking believe that was a thing that really happened fml
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Of course, for an extra 10 cents on the dollar.
(it was already included)
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