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.
what is the complaint? not enough testicular microplastics?
Garbage take. Just fill it into a glass jar at home. Nobody cares about the 0.03g of flour lost leaking out during transport.
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.
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.
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?
I see your flower bags and I raise you bacon packaging.
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.
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.
also the feeling of the paper texture makes me want to die
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.
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!
Don’t complain or they might switch to a blister pack.
Some companies put them in boxes. A bit more expensive though
