It was a brand new, grand opening of Winco, with several rows of bulk bins. I decided to get some walnuts to make whole wheat walnut bread. I got the walnuts home, and found they were rancid. I really didn't want to take them back, as I was just too tired. I decided to try the recipe anyway, using the old flour and rancid nuts. Surprise!

Gee, I don't know how long nuts will keep in the freezer--all my relatives won't fit in the freezer! I keep pecans for a year with no detriment to flavor or texture, but I wouldn't want to keep them much longer than that. When I freeze nuts I put the nut meats in a zipper bag, then put the bags in a large glass jar in the freezer.

Hubby will (mindlessly) shell/clean nuts for me while watching sports on TV on the weekend, and I vacuum-seal them in FoodSaver bags and store in the freezer. This helps keep them fresh longer. The absense of air will keep the oil in the nuts from going rancid. I avoid storing out-of-the-shell nut meats at room temperature.

-Rancid oils don't have to smell rancid to be rancid. If it gets to the point where they smell rancid, they have been so for a very long time. -I purchase the bulk of the nuts I have on hand just after the holidays when new-crop nuts go on sale for at least 50% off.

Even when I soak/dehydrate walnuts, I store them in the freezer, or short-term in the refrigerator. This slows down the potential for them to go rancid - it won't prevent rancidity - just slow it down. Other nuts/seeds I process I can store in my basement food storage room (which remains much cooler than room temperature). -Grainlady

-Freezing will only slow down the oils in whole wheat flour and nuts from going rancid, not prevent it. Whole wheat flour begins to degrade within 3-hours of milling it. Add to that the time it was warehoused, trucked, warehoused again, then it sat on the store shelves --- you have little left of any of the nutrients, which is why we tend to ...

I would like to coat it with hot bacon grease before each batch but seems like I've read somewhere that it would taste old/rancid if I did that." Season it with a vegetable oilbefore you use it, use the bacon grease, scrub it with soapy water after the muffins, wipe it dry and oil it lightly with any vegetable oil (except soybean oil, which ...

I have really nice oil & vinegar bottles and the oil one has a rancid smell. How do I sweeten it up? TIA dody

A friend and I used to gather up all the old stuff from our kitchens and feed it to birds and squirrels in the park. Between us, we got rid of rancid nuts, stale crackers, old rice, and those last seeds in the bird mix that no one wanted to eat. What the birds didn't like, the squirrels couldn't get enough of, and vice versa.

Sciabica's small EVOO bottles aren't as thick as they appear when the oil is in them. How do I know? I just dropped one on my pantry floor.