Leaky bags

It is adequate.
It performs it's function.

No need for extreme consumerism & garbage production.

OK. We'll start using single-use plastic.

I like the flour bags, I would hate to have to buy in plastic containers.

At least it's paper and not plastic

We should go back to cloth sacks that we can make dresses out of again!

what is the complaint? not enough testicular microplastics?

Says someone who's never tried to get flour out of a plastic bag before...

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.

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.

The worst possible container for flour would be a hot sauce bottle.

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.

Concrete: I will ruin your fucking life

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.

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.

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.

Y'all know you can have a flour container at home that the bag goes into right?

This is exactly why I mill my own threshed wheat.

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.

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...."

I see your flower bags and I raise you bacon packaging.

What, paper bags? Not that big a deal, just ziplock out or stuff it in a sealable plastic container. I'm guessing @ArtLesbO there didn't grow up in the Midwest lol

People leave it in the paper bags? What a bad idea lol.

Go buy a set of Tupperware. Yes they are plastic, but the set I have I got from my Mother. She bought it back in the 1970s. And one of my Grand kids will still be using them after me and Grandma are long gone. That's a pretty good use of plastic.

The large one I have will hold 5lbs of flour without issue, the next size down will hold 3lbs of sugar easily, then next size smaller yet a bag of brown sugar. Now my Grandmother, she bought flour by the 20lbs bag. And she had a wooden box in her pantry that she stored the whole bag in. She baked a LOT of bread and other baked goods nearly every day.

Boxes leak more. And plastic with make it mold if there's any amount of water in it.

9 times out of 10 all that flour on the outside of your bag of flour is not your bag leaking it's because one bag in the palette busted open and got on all the other ones. When you get home, you either transfer the flour into an airtight reusable container, or put the bag inside a 2 gallon zip lock and seal that.

Baking pro tip for shopping: buy some buckets. 3 gallon is plenty big enough for a grocery store sized bag.

Get the cart to your car, put the buckets (one for each bag of flour) in the buggy and transfer the bag/s into them.

Then move the buckets into your car. They'll be less messy, protect the paper bags better, and make carrying it in easier via the handles.

If you're a high volume home baker, it's still easier than dealing with ordering in bulk.

Wow I can't believe that guy buys flour that comes in dogs' asses.

also the feeling of the paper texture makes me want to die

Don’t complain or they might switch to a blister pack.

Always transfer mine to an airtight canister after purchase

Some companies put them in boxes. A bit more expensive though

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!