Don’t complain or they might switch to a blister pack.
Says someone who’s never tried to get flour out of a plastic bag before…
I haven’t even seen flour in a plastic bag and I can already imagine it being a PITA because of static cling! 😬
Ok, think of it like getting the last of the cocaine out the baggie.
Flip it inside out and rub it on my gums?
Pour a tiny bit of water and drink it while maintaining eye contact with some old dude who just wants to wash his hands at the restaurant toilets.
Dad?
Just a sec son, dad just needs to pop down to the shops for bit.
You roll down the bag and stuff that in the bag. It’s not that hard.
Garbage take. Just fill it into a glass jar at home. Nobody cares about the 0.03g of flour lost leaking out during transport.
also the feeling of the paper texture makes me want to die
OK. We’ll start using single-use plastic.
How about we start with slightly thicker paper bags that don’t leak as easily first?
They recently did that in Norway, it has improved my life by about 1%. You still get the flour explosion when opening a new bag though.
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.
Sounds like you could be doing both, with re-using that ziplock you aren’t unnecessarily contributing to plastic waste.
Wow dude I dont know if you know but thats actually really bad for the environment link
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Can we get some extra micro thrown in for our balls?
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
Those things were plastic?
I though they were like gelatinous or something
Still happens with face cleansers.
and toothpaste in some places
Of course, for an extra 10 cents on the dollar.
(it was already included)
I only want microplastics in my balls if it’s lab grown.
Lab grown balls? ~Also the name of my garrage band.~
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
Concrete bags are usually two ply, but they are pretty thin. Most of the dust gets shot out the corner when you move them around, especially the ones with the tear-out corner for pouring. They do sell concrete in plastic bags though, great for wet weather but they can get kind of slick. For the bigger jobs you get a mixer truck delivery.
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
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.
Well you should be transferring it to a better vessel when you get home anyway. Flour really wants to be in something airtight.
I wish the shop just had each beand of flower in massive barrels and you could bring your own containers and fill them up. This would eliminate the need for packaging altogether.
Edit: I just realized I described eco-shops
Tf is an eco-shop?
I think he’s talking about a shop like that, where you bring your own container to fill them.
Or old school bodegas.
Oh, like my caboose
In my experience flour doesn’t care (as long as it is stored dry). Me neither.
People leave it in the paper bags? What a bad idea lol.
Ok let me just quickly transfer these 10 kg of 4 different types of flour I bought into a bunch of containers
I just buy 50 lbs of all-purpose flour, throw it in a big, wheeled food-safe container marketed for dog food, and use it for nearly everything that calls for flour. I’ve never had a problem with my breads or cakes while using all-purpose flour. I still need gluten-free flour and some specialty stuff like corn flour and almond flour for some recipes, but those come in nice, resealable bags.
I mean, yah. If you’re going to be baking enough to merit 10kg of multiple flours, you absolutely want them in separate containers. Even if you only have the AP, bread, and cake flour trio that covers most baking needs, you’ll want them stored in airtight containers.
It ain’t even that hard or slow; my crippled ass with arthritis can do it fine. Well, it hurts, but I don’t lose enough flour to matter.
American naming conventions confuse me. We just call the flour by what it’s made of: wheat, rye, spelt and their grade of refinement.
Bread flour? You can make bread out of so many different types of flour.
They have different protein content. Your country almost certainly has an equivalent system, perhaps with more descriptive names.
Yep. We have a type number, that describes how many mg of ash are left behind after burning 100g of said flour.
Since starch burns away cleanly, the amount of ash shows how much of the rest of the grain is still in the flour (the rind or the germinating part).
So it would be “wheat flour type 450” which is more refined than “wheat flour type 1050”. More refined means it rises better. But there’s lots of healthy and tasty stuff in the rind, so if it’s not a sponge cake I’m making, I try to incorporate higher types.
Yes that’s what people do
Good idea. Not sure what you need 4 new types of flour at a time but good idea nonetheless
what is the complaint? not enough testicular microplastics?
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?
General rule of thumb is that for every 100 that vote, 10 read the comments and 1 will ever post.
There might be a desire from those that were looking for the top response to let it ride for visibility. I wish most things were as practically packaged as flour.
Edit: Can we do coffee next? I drink a lot of the stuff, and unless I roast my own, there is absolutely no environmentally friendly option. I tried roasting my own. I set off the smoke detector, upset the dogs, and made my house smell bad.
Most of the local roasters I go to sell coffee in recyclable paper bags that are technically resealable using the little bendy tie thingy. I end up just dumping it into an airtight glass jar once I open it up though.
Mine are always using plastic. I guess because they can seal it better? I feel like if I’m buying it directly to have it fresh this really doesn’t do shit, so I would be very cool with paper bags too.
No local roaster that sell directly? We have a couple that sell by weight so I can bring in my own containers.
Roast it outside or on the stovetop with the fan going if that’s not an option
Do you consider carbon neutral/negative(or at least as close as possible) to be environmentally friendly? What about sustainable agricultural practices?
If yes, I bought some coffee from Tiny Footprint coffee, which claims to be carbon negative, allegedly gets coffee from smaller local growers (you can pick the growing conditions you like, so like I got a bunch from women-owned farms), and they are actively trying to restore the areas where they source coffee. Also it’s packed in wax coated paper, and I believe you can buy bulk if you like.
It’s not cheap, and the roasts tend lighter than you’d expect (so imo a medium brews like a light), but it’s really good coffee.
And yeah, I live kinda close to a coffee roaster and it doesn’t smell great at all. If you have a garage, a cheap used oven set up out there might do the trick.
Sweet, thanks!
Yes, I seek out the most ethical option with whatever I consume. Being fair to people and kind to the environment should always come before convenience and profit. Especially for anything considered a luxury like coffee or chocolate. It would be nice if it was just on the shelf at the store since I’m already there, but it usually doesn’t work that way.
I think it’s because a lot of people’s (myself included) knee-jerk reaction is “yeah, those bags do suck”, then they look at the comments and either realize the tide is against them or end up agreeing with the points in the comments upon reflection.
Downvoting isn’t for disagreement. If you think the conversation is valuable you can upvote for visibility while disagreeing in a comment. This is important subject matter that needs to be hashed out!
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.
Why didn’t you wrap it with another bag, or your reused plastic one? This seems like a non-issue user error.
Skill issue
Same for sugar, it’s really annoying that so many things have switched to plastic. Gram crackers, Ritz and Saltines all used to be in waxed paper when I was a kid and were fine.
Now they switch to plastic, but make sure it’s tinted to mimic the old paper versions.
Real environmentalists just pack the flour into their jeans pockets to avoid unnecessary paper waste
Into their jeans pocketsup their asses FTFYYou joke but bulk stores exist where you can literally just take your own container and avoid the crappy leaky bags altogether.
Annoyingly they’re basically deli prices in my city
I just put it straight into my mouth to avoid the extra cleaning and energy of cooking. Don’t you even care about the planet?
Real environmentalists keep a little dirt under their pillow for the dirt man, in case he comes to town.
Classic Hank Scorpio
Don’t eat the white poison. It’s made from the ice wall that contains the oceans of the flat earth. Sometimes even from chemtrails!
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 worst possible container for flour would be a hot sauce bottle.
nope. it’d be the balls
Hershey’s syrup bottle
Naw the little spout on top unscrews from that.
Fabreeze bottle
Single serving coffee creamer cups
