How do you use the plastic coated “sleeve” (folded tube) at the top of a commercial sized bag of flour? (25-50#, paper bag)
Thanks mucho!
Drat. I thought this was going to be about "How do you open a 5# bag of flour without mutilating the bag so badly that you can’t even store the unused flour in it.
I’ve never come across them, because I don’t cook and certainly not to where I’d have a bag that large, but I’d guess these work the same as the sleeve I’ve seen on bags of sand and quickrete.
Not that I know how to use those correctly, either. But here’s a bump, because I’m hoping for an answer as well.
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Do you have a photo of the folded tube? Most of my experience is with the smaller, five-pound bags of flour and they didn’t seem to have this tube.
Do you mean, “How do you open it?”?
Just pull on the string, and the stitching should come undone.
Not unless you have some uncanny magical relationship with the string. Whenever I open a Basmati Rice bag, I try all possible configurations of pullng the string, and then I have to spend several minutes prying out a stitch at a time with pointed scissors.
The bag you’re describing is a’valve bag’ which was designed for fast machine filling and not for ease of opening. There is no way to use the tube to neatly pour the flour (or cement) out
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Ah! They are also used to package swimming poolfilter sand, which I use in aquariums.
