Out of date plain flour...

[classic33]

If it's moving you have weevils!

Not to worry, the baking in the oven will kill them.

 

[welsh dragon]

The other is unopened muscovado sugar, 10.2018?

That will be ok. Might be a bit hard, but still OK

 

[raleighnut]

And weevils look like dark spots amongst the lighter flour.

They're also quite big compared to flour grains,

 

[vickster]

I think for the sake of a quid bag of flour, discretion is perhaps the better part of vaflour

 

[classic33]

If anyone notices "crunchie bits" , just say it's your secret ingredient.

 

[vickster]

If anyone notices "crunchie bits" , just say it's your secret ingredient.

I'm adding nuts, so no one will notice

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Not using it would be the lesser of two weevils

Two weevils do not make it good.

 

[classic33]

Two weevils do not make a saint

Thought it was a cake or biscuits.

 

[nickyboy]

I'm sensing a Paul Hollywood handshake for your weevil biscuits

 

[gavgav]

Dated BBE October 2013. I've stupidly volunteered for the office bake off comp and have to do biscuits...now I'm no baker (or cook really) and have found flour I bought for the last time I stupidly volunteered! Never got opened for whatever reason, safe to use? Thoughts? (There was a similar thread recently-ish but couldn't find it)

I'm a contractor so killing off colleague and management probably wouldn't bode well for my continuing employment

I remember discovering flour weevils, for the first time, in a bag of plain flour, last year. Bin it!!

 

[Katherine]

Weevils feed on the glue in the packaging and not on the flour.
That's why I transfer flour into a large storage jar .

 

[vickster]

Weevils feed on the glue in the packaging and not on the flour.
That's why I transfer flour into a large storage jar .

6 years too late for that

 

[Reynard]

It's probably still fine, but if you're baking for other people, then best not to.

You can use the old stuff to make paste glue for papier mache.

 

[sheddy]

No problem, just remember to introduce a medieval theme for the occasion.

and report back
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[Profpointy]

It's probably still fine, but if you're baking for other people, then best not to.

You can use the old stuff to make paste glue for papier mache.

If it looks ok it'll be fine, and if it's merely for other people why waste new flour?