/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13191490
get out of here, femoid.

>make a fresh pot of coffe in the Chemex
>let it sit to cool down for a minute
>come back to 3 fruit flies drowned in it
>my OCD compels me to throw out the whole pot
AGHHHHHHHHH FUCCCCKKKKK

Gotta catch 'em all.

>>13191490
Are you a fucking goblin?

>>13191490
EAT THE BUGS

>>13191514
?

>>13191508
I have no idea why fruit flies are attracted to hot coffee, it makes no sense. Anyone have any ideas?

>>13191522
Because of all the sugar and fat you put in it

>>13191490
You can milk my fruit fly any day, baby girl ;-)

>>13191527
I drink it black straight from the Chemex. No sugar, no milk.

>>13191522
cuz they like it

>>13191581
But why? There is no sugar or fat, just acidity. Maybe because it is warm?

>>13191596
I believe fruit flies like strong odors. They lay eggs in your kitchen sink and love garage and whatever food is out. You can make a fruit fly trap by using a shallow dish filled with apple cider vinegar and a small squirt of dish soap

>>13191625
*garbage

>>13191625
I tried this, they never fall for it

>>13191632
Invite some lizards into your home, I guess :/

>>13191522
Maybe when they get close to investigate the steam gets them and makes them fall in

>>13191625
>>13191632
Maybe try honey, I've heard you catch more that way

>>13191637
>>13191646

We la

how the fuck do people have bugs in their house and not get rid of them immediately

>>13191581
t. fruit fly

>>13191632
This works like a charm.

Only problem is, you keep doing it, and they keep coming, and it becomes a chicken/egg scenario

>>13191490
put a glass with a bit vinegar, some water and a drop dish soap somewhere, they will all drown themselves in there. And get rid of whatever fruit they are nesting in, keep all other fruits in a closed container for a week so they wont have a new nesting ground
this should get rid of them

>>13191632
I've had best results with a bit of cheap wine or beer, and only the smallest drop of dish soap. You want enough to break the surface tension so they can't float in it, but not enough that the perfume in the soap covers up the smell of the alcohol.
They're attracted to the smell of decomposing fruit.

>>13191700
They come in the skins and peels of any fruit you buy. Make sure you keep wet waste and compostables out of your garbage bin, and rinse any yogurt containers or whatever thoroughly before recycling.

>>13192987
How does the dish soap, a base, and the vinegar, an acid, work together?

>>13193013
The soap breaks the surface tension of the vinegar, so the little fuckers sink and drown rather than just floating on top.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

>>13191596
>>13191522
Coffee beans are basically partially broken down and preserved fruit.
That, or drain flies.

>>13193008
>They come in the skins and peels of any fruit you buy.
They smell alcohol from miles away and fly to your house and enter through tiny openings.

There are none in my land, sucks to be you.

>>13191522
Mebbe they are Mexican fruit flies

>>13191508
you haven't got ocd, that isn't what ocd is you nigger

I've only had fruit flies when I lived like an absolute pig like in those horror pictures of homes full with junk(including tupperware and boxes of take out sitting there for months) everywhere. They'd fly all over the place and annoyed the fuck out of me when they kept landing on my monitor and even on my face sometimes. Once I cleaned up they disappeared completely after a couple of days.

>>13193665
I would go into my other compulsions to convince you otherwise, but this isn't my fucking thread you double nigger.

>>13191514
Lt. Columbo's on the track of the goblinos.

>>13191522

Fruit flies are why I believe in reincarnation. If you did and came back as a fruit fly, you would immediately want to kill yourself and no other creature does a better job than them.

My only experience with fruit flies is from like 7th or 8th grade where we used to count them for eye color and stuff then chart it out.

>>13194009
Go for broke, at least go for a praying mantis.

Man, y'all aint bright are you?

Just take a small bowl, add a piece of banana, Apple cider vinegar, a literal drop of dish soap, and cover with plastic wrap. Take a tooth pick and poke tiny holes just big enough for them to crawl into.

Put next to the garbage, or on a shelf in the kitchen. Make 2-3 if it's bad. Change out once every 2 weeks.

I have literally never had a fruit fly problem because i do this. Use your head for something other than the 15th alchy or mcchicken thread of the day.

>>13194033
>i literally never have a fruit fly problem
>i have to keep three traps going and make new ones bi-weekly

>>13191490
You must devour them.

Fruit flies are a non-issue, only people living in filth get them.

>>13192987
I was gonna post this too, I've never seen a more effective method.

ever try to brew your own wine? they love that shit.

I was going to suggest red wine. Place in a glass and add saran wrap to the top and keep taught with a rubber band or hair tie. Poke 5 or 6 holes in the wrap with a toothpick and they'll come. They drown and sink.

Fucking hate fruit flies.

>>13191490
eat your fucking bugs!

>>13195009
Yeah how do I keep them out of the airlock?
They never make it into the wine or anything it’s just kind of gross to see bugs sitting on one side of my airlock all the time.

>>13191490
only poor people have fruit flies in their homes

>>13191684
I spray every so often but try not to do it too much. roaches die on the floor if they ever make it in but flying insects still hang around sometimes. I've never had fruit flies except several years back storms knocked out the power for about a week and had to deal with them then. wasps tend to hang around since they just chill in the blinds and curtains and I don't usually deal with them at all, I just let them eventually die on the floor and clean them up.

>>13194053
If you set out premptive traps, it prevents them from breeding and becoming a problem. More traps = less area to breed.

How is this such a problem for to grasp, dumdum?

You aren't that bright, are you?

>>13191490
Eat the bugs OP!

>>13195289
This nigga doesn't eat peaches.

They come with free flies.

>>13193008
The best way to get rid of them is to keep your home clean and spray them with 50% alcohol/water in the air or on the walls. This is the best method hands down.

>>13195353
If you need "preemptive" traps 24/7/365, you have a fruitfly problem.

>>13195491
>If there are bugs outside your house, you have a bug problem!

>>13195276
can't help you there. i know the problem but not the answer to it.

>>13195436
Fruit are murder, they come in inside them and are attracted to them ripening. I really haven't done much research but I've cleaned my entire apartment with a simple vinegar and alcohol mix. Dumb fuckers will divebomb into it until there aren't any. Boil all your drains and clean any mildew or mold as some can lay eggs in it. Check all sinks, mirrors windows, etc. The genocide needs to be complete and maintained.

>>13195491
Where did I say 365? Cmon dumdum, reading comprehension isn't that hard.

You use them when they are out about in the spring/summer when you're bringing fruit that already has eggs from the supermarket.

"Lol you have to take a shower to prevent bo, you must have a bo problem" literal what, bub? It's called preventative maintenance, like brushing your teeth. Or do you not do that either?

>>13195877
What the fuck are you babbling about? If you have bug traps in your fucking house, then you have a bug problem.

>>13195923
Hey dumdum, bugs are everywhere. There's no such thing as "no bugs". Fruit flies lay eggs in supermarket fruit and fruit is then purchased and brought into a home.
Do you really honestly think just because you don't see bugs they aren't there?

>>13191625
The number one fruit fly attractor is beer. Especially high gravity or underfermented

>>13191490
Yuck!!!!! Stop eating flies

>>13196866
Nah, they plant eggs in fruit and hatch in the peels

Any niggas working a bar know how to get rid of them? Feels like no matter how clean I am, there's always just a few hanging around the beer taps.

>>13191490
fat

>>13191490
I hate fruits. Like you.

I have not had a problem with fruit flies, or any other insect except for one instance. I came home one day to find ants completely swarming an empty, clean bottle on my counter. I keep my house quite clean and I didn't see them anywhere else, only all over and around that bottle. I threw out the bottle and, though they never swarmed anything again, I spent the rest of the week sealing up any cracks I could find in floor boards or walls because I kept finding a few wandering around looking for... more empty bottles, I guess.

>>13194033
>y'all
>redditspacing
You need to go back.

>>13191632
you must be a retard then because it works every time for me

>>13196839
>I don't have a bug problem, I just keep bug traps around my house as preventative measures.
>I don't have a bear problem, I just keep bear traps around my property as preventative measures.
Hmm. Sounds like you have goddamn bug problem.

>>13191522
Because you're a sweaty fat fuck that deludes their coffee with shit.

>>13191508
>whole pot
Stupid wasteful nigger

>>13198582
> I think bugs are the same as bears.

I forgot bears can multiply to the thousands if left unchecked. Thank you for reminding me they give birth to 200 bears per litter and grow to adult hood in 2 weeks.

Damm, you drove straight past dumdum land, and ended up in retardville.

I was making fun of you at first, but now I actually feel kinda bad. Good luck dealing with the most simplest things in your life.

>>13197385
Being this butthurt about formatting