Muffins in the oven

[susandennis]

I just noticed on m box of Bisquick that it says 'to maintain freshness, refrigerate after opening'... WTF?  NFW.  I guess I've spent years and years enjoying extremely stale Bisquick.  I don't have enough room in my fridge and even if I did... no.  If I lived in the south where bugs abound (or used to), maybe, but in downtown Seattle where no self respecting bug would hang indoors, no.

Turns out, the reason I never considered hand washing dishes was that I didn't have the tools!  No place for wet dishes to drain. No good scrub sponge or brush.  No good dish soap.  When the dishwasher died, I invested in all those things. I have a nice little dish drainer that sits in the second sink where the dirty dishes used to sit.  I am using the dishwasher again but big items that I don't use a lot - the big bowl I mixed the muffins in, the pan I cooked the sausage in last night and some other miscellany and hand washing the smaller, more frequent stuff - my favorite rubber scrapper/spoon, plates and cutlery.

The big benefit is that the kitchen is staying very tidy which I love.

Comments

[stagger-lee77.livejournal.com]

i guess i've never noticed that either? but for waffles, i've been using the bisquick shake n pour which needs to be refrigerated.

[magenta-girl.livejournal.com]

I'd think that if you were going to refrigerate your Bisquick you'd need to put it in another container because the cardboard box being open doesn't seem like a good idea in the fridge. Also I would think the cardboard would get soggy?

My mom refrigerates her flour but she gets bugs in it. I don't seem to get bugs in mine. I don't refrigerate my Bisquick. And I'm in the South.

[susandennis]

I lived in about a half dozen places in North and South Carolina... I had bugs in a couple. But even in the others I always felt like there was a possibility. And, yeah, I don't think I'd put the box in the fridge even if I had room.

[magenta-girl.livejournal.com]

There are definitely bugs around here. I do keep the flour in canisters. My mom had those pantry moths and it was AWFUL so I think that is part of why she keeps the flour in the fridge. Also she doesn't do a lot of baking.

I'm not saying our house is full of bugs or anything and we do have an exterminating service but it's SC and there will be bugs.

[susandennis]

Having grown up in the south and lived all up and down the east coast - even in the north east you get a nice variety of roaches and other unwelcome 'friends', when I got out here to Seattle, it was a couple of years before I quit looking in crevices. It took forever to wrap my brain around no bugs inside and precious few outside.

I'm going to stop now because I honestly feel like I'm begging bugs to come see me and it's giving me the heebyjeebies!!

Sharon reports...

[johncomic.livejournal.com]

... that OUR Bisquick box sports no such instructions. Hmm. Perhaps staying in the cupboard in Canada is the equivalent of being in the fridge in America....

Re: Sharon reports...

[susandennis]

now, that is kind of interesting... probably they assume Americans will sue and Canadians will not. I think everyone assumes that!

[rejectomorph]

I have never refrigerated my opened boxes of Bisquick, and never before noticed the advice to do so on the top of the box.

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[(Anonymous)]

From Tammy (and Avery) in Louisiana. When flour,cereals,etc. get too warm, the eggs, which are already in every bag or pound you buy, hatch. Hence, the weevils or grain beetles. Ever left cereal or corn muffin mix in a cabinet and wonder how those bugs got into a sealed package? Now you know. It does not attract bugs, the 'foundation' is already there. Cooler the better!

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

Just so you know: it's so the fats don't go rancid. It takes a fairly long time for this to happen, but it can happen.