As soon as summer comes, the temperature gets higher and higher, and there will be more and more mosquitoes. If the rice is not properly preserved, it will easily grow insects. Can the rice worms eat? How can the rice be preserved without insects?
Can I eat rice worms in summer
Raw rice can be eaten as long as there is no mildew to drive out the insects. Once rice worms are found, the rice can be dried in a cool place to let the insects fly away or climb out. Do not expose the rice to the sun.
The causes of rice pests in summer
1. When the grain is still in the field, it carries the eggs of rice worms. After being processed by grain factories, it still sticks to some rice. The eggs are so small that people can't see them at all. When the eggs hatch in the summer heat, they become small insects. There is rice around them that they like to eat most, so they eat a lot and reproduce quickly.
2. Every family buys rice every year and grows worms every year. Some of the eggs are hidden in the bottom of the rice VAT, the seams of the rice bags, the seams of the walls and the seams of the ground. It is difficult for people to remove them one by one. When there is rice in the house and the climate is suitable, these eggs will soon hatch out and climb into the rice bags, eat a lot and have children.
Storage conditions of rice in summer
The endosperm of rice is directly exposed to the outside world, and it is easy to absorb moisture and cause heat deterioration. When the dry rice is rapidly hygroscopic or the wet rice is rapidly dry, the waist will burst, resulting in more broken rice and reducing the quality of rice. So rice should be stored in a cool and dry place.
What to do if rice is infested with insects
1. Screening method: in order to shorten the time of disinfestation, after removing the insects on the surface, the insects in the rice can be screened out with a screen made of bamboo or wicker. Finally, put it in a cool place to ventilate and dry to remove all kinds of insects in the rice noodles.
2. Sunning method: take out the rice for sunning in a sunny day. The rice worms can't stand the high temperature and will run away naturally. When sunning, please turn over to make the rice evenly heated. But the dried rice is dry. Put more water when cooking.
3、 Method of preservation: Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a kind of natural antioxidant, with a special flavor and insect repellent effect. The specific method is to put 20 to 30 prickly ash in the pot, add a proper amount of water (it is better to be able to soak the pocket of rice) and put it on the fire to boil out the fragrance of prickly ash. The back end of the pot is off the fire, put the pocket of rice into the water of prickly ash and take it out to dry, and then pour the rice into the pocket. In addition, wrap a few small packages of pepper with gauze, put them on the top, middle and bottom of the rice bag, fasten the bag mouth, and put the rice bag in a cool and ventilated place, so as to prevent the rice from growing insects.
How to prevent rice worms in summer
1. Put pepper in the rice
You can put a few cloves of garlic in the middle or both ends of the rice bag. Of course, if you put rice in a special container for rice, you can wrap some pepper in a cloth or paper and put it in it. Usually, you should remember to clean up your container for rice, so as to avoid the winter insects and pupae hiding in it.
2. Put new garlic in the rice
You can dry the water in the skin of fresh garlic, and then divide it into one flap and put it directly into the container for holding rice. Of course, it is natural to put some in the deep place and the shallow place, so as to prevent the rice worms.
3. Put kelp or orange peel into rice. If you have dried kelp or orange peel in your home, you can also put them into rice, so that you can have the effect of insect prevention, and also the effect of mildew prevention and mildew prevention. These are the three ways to prevent rice insects in summer. If the rice in your home has already been infested with insects, you may as well put some fresh ginger in the rice container, so that you can drive out the insects inside. In addition, you should pay attention to a question: as long as the insects are cleaned up, the rice can be eaten.