So I am currently sitting in the dark in a power cut... we have a lot less now, but they still pop up every few days! Laptop batteries are handy!
I thought I would write about ants, and ask if anyone has any good remedies for killing ants? If so please let me know. I am currently waging a war with the small black beings.
My kitchen seems to be fairly overrun with them, although keeping anything edible out of sight does help keep numbers down. Yesterday I made a fairly fatal mistake. I made a whole load of mini choc-orange muffins. Just as an aside I made them in a Le Creuset (darling) Silicone mini muffin baking tray: http://www.lecreuset.co.uk/Default.aspx?PCat=56 which is legendary. It has a 10 year guarantee and can be screwed into a ball, frozen, put in an over or a dishwasher... and if purchased from a Le Cruset outlet store is really quite cheap ;o) Truly the way forward in kitchen bake ware... and it is orange? What more could anyone want?!
Anyways, so I made some to take to a party which was happening after the concert of the choir I sing in, and some to take to a friends house for lunch today. So, the ones for today I wrapped up in silver foil, and then tied them up in a plastic bag and left them on the side over night. This morning I picked up the bag and moved it and that was when I noticed million ants crawling all over my surfaces... hmm so i went and looked at the bag of muffins... many ants on the bag... so i opened the bag... many ants in the bag... so i opened the foil... and those cheeky ants were all enjoying my mini muffins... seriously it was horrible... the muffins were just seething in small black crawling ants, it looked revolting, and was such a waste... but I was just SOOOOOOOOOOOO glad that I had noticed and hadn't taken them to my friends house. Just imagine the horror! Anyways, being chief domestic goddess I whipped up some more, and all was OK!
Moral: Store things in the fridge, or in Tupperware. Ants can get through plastic bags and foil.
I thought I would write about ants, and ask if anyone has any good remedies for killing ants? If so please let me know. I am currently waging a war with the small black beings.
My kitchen seems to be fairly overrun with them, although keeping anything edible out of sight does help keep numbers down. Yesterday I made a fairly fatal mistake. I made a whole load of mini choc-orange muffins. Just as an aside I made them in a Le Creuset (darling) Silicone mini muffin baking tray: http://www.lecreuset.co.uk/Default.aspx?PCat=56 which is legendary. It has a 10 year guarantee and can be screwed into a ball, frozen, put in an over or a dishwasher... and if purchased from a Le Cruset outlet store is really quite cheap ;o) Truly the way forward in kitchen bake ware... and it is orange? What more could anyone want?!
Anyways, so I made some to take to a party which was happening after the concert of the choir I sing in, and some to take to a friends house for lunch today. So, the ones for today I wrapped up in silver foil, and then tied them up in a plastic bag and left them on the side over night. This morning I picked up the bag and moved it and that was when I noticed million ants crawling all over my surfaces... hmm so i went and looked at the bag of muffins... many ants on the bag... so i opened the bag... many ants in the bag... so i opened the foil... and those cheeky ants were all enjoying my mini muffins... seriously it was horrible... the muffins were just seething in small black crawling ants, it looked revolting, and was such a waste... but I was just SOOOOOOOOOOOO glad that I had noticed and hadn't taken them to my friends house. Just imagine the horror! Anyways, being chief domestic goddess I whipped up some more, and all was OK!
Moral: Store things in the fridge, or in Tupperware. Ants can get through plastic bags and foil.
2 comments:
May I suggest a blowtorch. It will quite effectively kill ants. However it may not solve the long term problem of their relatives coming back in force to hunt you down.
same ant problem here telfy. Unfortunatly i was half way through my bowl of cereal before seeing them swimming in the milk ! I use 'zap' loads of chemicals lots of dead ants !
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