How to prevent pantry and other food pests? Are the bugs edible? :)

[Alphaville]

A week later I saw the pest control man pulled up at my next door neighbor’s.

rofl

[ertyu]

Are the bugs edible? Well, my dry chick peas have turned buggy, so we're about to find out

[Alphaville]

Are the bugs edible? Well, my dry chick peas have turned buggy, so we're about to find out

protein is protein!

i’m chicken and would separate them though

[ertyu]

can't be fucked with inspecting 1lb of chick peas for holes

I did boil the f out of the chick peas though I didn't soak them, it's possible that if I had soaked them for a while some bugs would have climbed out of the beans and floated to the surface

in either case, i doubt the entire middle east + the nation of india had freezers so they could freeze their bugs out of their chick peas. Chances are one doesn't die.

[Alphaville]

nowhere near those regions, my great grandmother used to pick off the gorgojos from the rice. then she’d cook the rice normally.

so what do they taste like?

[ertyu]

the plan is to throw away the ones that swim up with the chickpea water and to obliviously gobble down the ones still stuck inside the chick peas

[Alphaville]

found this pic online. maybe it’s worth looking at his book. i do eat shrimp and tiny shrimp after all.



i’d pressure cook over boiling as autoclave is more destructive of pathogens but likely it’s unnecessary.