Pantry moths/rice bugs: whats the problem?

Purely aesthetic.

Let's be real here: all the food you eat gets eaten by bugs. Full stop. It may not be in your cabinet, but it happens at some point in the process. People are just so used to the artificial sterilized environment of a supermarket/refrigerator that the thought of a bug boring a little hole into their apple makes them nauseous. It's just one of the ramifications of the industrialization of food.

You know what will kill you tens times faster than a little larvae in your rice? Petroleum-derived pesticides - that's what. That stuff gets sprayed all over most of the food you eat, but for some reason the general public doesn't seem to have a problem with that. Or hormones. Or the waste that makes its way into the water that you drink. Or deforestation and soil erosion. I could go on.

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Frozen Cookie Dough makes weird cookies, help

Plastic doesn't have "pores". Air does not pass through plastic, neglecting quantum tunneling, of course.

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Baking From My Home to Yours: Cookies

If I'm not mistaken there are two ways you can make a cookies chewier:

One way is to underbake them, either by reducing the baking time and letting them cool until set (warm undercooked cookies fall apart) or by chilling the dough before you work with it so that the centre remains relatively less baked while the outside is crisp, giving it structure, or by decreasing the amount of fat in your cookie. That sounds counterintuitive, but fat will actually get quite hot and brown your cookie faster resulting in a more crispy cookie.

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New to Vancouver and can't find many ingredients :(

I don't like the owners of El Sureno very much. I was in there the other day with a pen and a pad writing down prices so that I could get gauge the prices in the area (since I'm a new resident). They kicked me out. I quote: "It's not fair to write down prices.".

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New to Vancouver and can't find many ingredients :(

Hi. I moved here about 1 month ago and after some helpful posts (http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/667758) from fellow chowhounders, I moved right into the Commercial Dr/ Broadway area and I'm enjoying it immensely. My knowledge of the city is still rather basic, and I've been having trouble locating several ingredients.

If anyone knows where I can purchase any of these items at good prices (I'm quite poor) then do tell! (Preferably within 15min biking distance of where I live)

1.) Vanilla Beans
2.) 00 Semolina Flour (Large bags ~10kgs or bigger)
3.) Dark and Light Rye Flour (Large bags ~10kgs or bigger)
4.) Oat Groats
5.) Large containers of heavy cream/whipping cream (~1L or bigger)

I'd also like to know if anyone had any recommendations on a local butcher shop and specialty spice store.

Thanks in advance.
-Jan

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Moving to Vancouver. Need advice from locals!

Thanks guys. I'll take a look at those parts of town today.
Can't wait to actually begin my new life.

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