It may seem like I'm always talking about weevils, weevils, weevils.
Yes!
Weevils are a menace to Nigerian food crops.
Because we don't use a lot of pesticides when planting our crops,
we don't use a lot of pesticides when storing them after harvest
so these weevils once they find their way into your beans, rice, corn, millet,
they will just finish it and leave the ... maybe the skin for you if you are lucky.
If not, they will turn everything into dust rendering them useless.
So any method that will destroy these weevils that I know of, I would gladly share.
Ok, there are two ways to do this.
First you need the beans that you want to store.
You see one weevil there.
You see the beans you want to store
and for the first method you just need a container with a cover.
You pour the beans in there, cover it, close tight and put in your freezer.
And you don't need to do any other thing.
It will stay there for as long as possible.
The weevils that are already in the beans
will all die off once they get cold in the freezer.
The second method is to put the beans in this jerry can, gallon or container.
Then put some pepper in there.
Dry cayenne pepper.
Then cover the can very well.
Close it tight.
I usually put this plastic bag before I cover it.
I will show how I do that.
You also need a funnel so you'll be able to easily pour the beans into here
because this one has a small opening.
If you don't have a funnel, you can make a funnel with a piece of paper like this.
And then you need a jug like this to pour it inside.
You add the pepper at intervals.
And continue adding the beans.
Shake it
shake it ...
You repeat the same process till the jerry can is filled up.
Then you use this plastic bag to cover it and then close tight.
Keep this container anywhere in your kitchen and nothing will happen to it.
What happens is that the pepper will suffocate them.
You know, pepper is hot, they can't breathe in there.
And because this is closed tight, there's no way for fresh air to enter in there to
keep the weevils alive.
So that's all you need to do.
For this one you do not need a freezer.
But for this one you need a freezer.
You don't need pepper because the cold temperature in the freezer is enough to destroy those
weevils!
But for this one, if you don't have a freezer,
or if you don't have electricity 24/7 such that your freezer is not working all the time.
Then you need to try this method.
You can use bigger jerry cans.
I mean in Nigeria beans come in very big sacks
so in that case you are going to need several 25 litre jerry cans but you need more pepper.
If I'm trying to store 10 cups of beans,
I would add one cup of pepper in there if not more.
Yes, that's the ratio I would go with
so that that place will be so hot and uncomfortable for the weevils enough for them to suffocate
and die!
So that's how you store the beans.
When you want to cook the beans, bring out the quantity you need,
pick out the pepper and cook your beans normally.
You can see that all the weevils that are already in the beans before I stored it are
all dead.
Yes, this is so effective.
Once you follow the rules, if you follow the proportion of beans to pepper
this beans will be here for years and nothing more would happen
except you know the ones that the weevils have already eaten that's it.
We've put an end to the weevil attack!
So I am officially a weevil slayer!
That's it!
Bye byeeeee
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