It is adequate.
It performs it's function.
No need for extreme consumerism & garbage production.
It's biodegradable, renewable, and only needs to get from the manufacturer to your cabinet, where it can be replaced with heartier permanent storage.
Real environmentalists just pack the flour into their jeans pockets to avoid unnecessary paper waste
Classic Hank Scorpio
OK. We'll start using single-use plastic.
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
Of course, for an extra 10 cents on the dollar.
(it was already included)
I like the flour bags, I would hate to have to buy in plastic containers.
Exactly, one of the last products not sold in single use plastic packaging yet gets shat on
Seconded. Pretty much minimum waste for the amount you get. Buy a four jar or snap container that will keep the air out. Reusable, keeps four fresh longer, easier to scoop from, less mess.
At least it's paper and not plastic
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.
what is the complaint? not enough testicular microplastics?
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! 😬
You want them to use plastic?
Then later complain about runaway plastic pollution?
The same kind of circular logic applied to politics leads people to not vote, arguing that bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe and never make the connection that their chronic apathy and fickleness is what caused the mess the are apathetic about, only now with more cynicism.
They used to use cloth with patterns on it you could make clothes out of.
Bitches about flour bags.
Turns it into a not both party are the same temper tantrum.
God I love this shithole of a website.
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.
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.
Garbage take. Just fill it into a glass jar at home. Nobody cares about the 0.03g of flour lost leaking out during transport.
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 flour in massive barrels and you could bring your own containers and fill them up. This would eliminate the need for packaging altogether. This should be the case for everything tbh. Soap, milk, detergents
Edit: I just realized I described eco-shops
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 buy it in paper bags and transfer it to cereal Tupperware.
If I buy flour in bulk, like more than 10kg at a time, I vacuum seal it in bags and then freeze/thaw/freeze it to kill beasties.
Won't be long before flour companies start packaging with fabric so people can make clothes.
Again? I have a lovely quilt made by my great grandmother out of sack cloth.
They should learn from the masters: cocaine smugglers package their goods in a variety of ways and the penalty for leaking even just a few particles can be high (heh).
Well we wouldn't want people to make dresses out of the packaging, now would we? That might be a drag on the economy.
Y'all know you can have a flour container at home that the bag goes into right?
Paper lets the flour breathe, releasing moisture. The grain isn’t 100% when milled and the milling process generates significant heat (mill some grain at home with a motorized mill and see). Warmth + moisture + hermetically sealed plastic smells like a nice way to grow some fungus.
Edit: isn’t 100% dry when milled.
This is exactly why I mill my own threshed wheat.
Look at this guy, he has his own mill while the rest of us have to use a mortar and pestle.
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.
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 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?
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...."
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