/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14852833]

>buy any type of fruit
>have to deal with fruit gnats for weeks
Every single FUCKING TIME. I'M SICK OF THIS

[Anonymous No.14852845]

>>14852833
Ready or gnat here we come

[Anonymous No.14852851]

>baking soda + lemon juice down every drain
>boiling water down every drain
>apple cider traps
>bug spray the fuck out of every drain / trash can
>they're STILL HERE
I just wanted a FUCKING APPLE

[Anonymous No.14853228]

>>14852851
>>14852833
My apple cider trap started killing them but man are they annoying af. House not even dirty.

[Anonymous No.14853280]

store the fruit in a paper bag or a bowl with a towel over it

[Anonymous No.14853285]

Store your fruit outside if you have that option.

[Anonymous No.14853289]

Try not to think about how this means that fruit fly maggots are in the skin of everything you buy.

[Anonymous No.14853317]

>>14853228

Fruit flies doesn't mean your home is dirty don't worry. Do you have many houseplants? They like to burrow into the soil to lay their larvae

[Anonymous No.14853329]

>gnats don't come standard in her house

heh, rookie

[Anonymous No.14853347]

>>14853329
>her
you will never be a woman.

[Anonymous No.14853563]

>>14852833
I just committed gnat genocide half a week ago this thread gives me the lolz.
fly ribbon and cider traps also fabreezed a ton of em too.

[Anonymous No.14853571]

I live in the first world and do not know that feel.

[Anonymous No.14853588]

>>14852833
>>14852851
Eat a fruit? Throw the waste in a fruit specific bag and keep in the fridge until ready to be thrown out.

No more gnats.

[Anonymous No.14853693]

>>14853228
>start seeing a handful of gnats/fruit flies around my produce
>put out one of these traps
>suddenly there are hordes of these things flying around my kitchen and only a dozen or so bugs in the trap

[Anonymous No.14853737]

>>14853289
lol even like beer cans.

[Anonymous No.14854718]

>>14853317
I don't even have fruit in my room let alone plants or dirt.

[Anonymous No.14854960]

>>14853347
Rent-free

[Anonymous No.14856400]

>>14854960
literally will never be female. yolo

[Anonymous No.14856410]

>>14852833
>>14852851
If only they invented fridges in which you could store said fruit and bugs would not invade into. If only that was ever a thing :(

[Anonymous No.14856416]

>Buying fresh fruit and not frozen

fucking disgusting

[Anonymous No.14856425]

>>14854960

dilate

[Anonymous No.14856443]

>>14856416
>frozen fruit

What in the american fuck.

[Anonymous No.14857473]

Why tf dont you put the fruit in the fridge then?

[Anonymous No.14858033]

>>14857473

Because that ruins it. I bet you leave your tomatoes in there like an utter heathen

[Anonymous No.14858086]

>>14857473
many fruits, especially tomato, will taste like nothing after a day in the refrigerator

[Anonymous No.14858098]

>>14856425
ok, now what?

[Anonymous No.14858186]

>>14853285
but the bears will eat it, anon

[Anonymous No.14858270]

you should try getting mosquito coils

turns out
mosquito coils are also very harmful to other flying pets

[Anonymous No.14859217]

>>14852833
Clean your kitchen.

[Anonymous No.14860762]

How does frozen fruit compare to fresh fruit, in terms of nutritional content and gnat attractiveness?

[Anonymous No.14860846]

>>14858098
disgusting bony hands

[Anonymous No.14860912]

>>14852833
I had this problem but my laziness actually paid off for once.
>Bring in lots of fresh figs, tomatoes and vegetables from my garden
>While cooking see fruit flies show up again
>Goddamit
>Notice spiderweb in the corner of my kitchen, too high to reach without a chair or step ladder so I leave it alone and go back to cooking
>Forget all about spider
>Next morning see the spider web again, now it's full little black specks
>No more fruit flies
>Thanks spiderbro