storing pasta and rice in fridge?

hereonceagain

I was reading the post below asking about containers for rice and pasta.  At certain times of the year, I see things (yes, critters, gross) getting into our rice and pasta no matter what brand of air tight containers we buy.  I have wasted small fortunes in products hoping something would work. 

So I've resorted in storing rice and pasta and many other boxed or packaged items (once opened) in our fridge.  Is that bad for any foods?? I assume refrigerating it could only be a good thing, right?  I also store all our flour, sugar, etc in the fridge.

clea

I say if it keeps bugs out, then that is the good news.

Reysgirl

I have heard that if you put the pasta/rice/grains in the freezer (for minimally 3-4 hours) should kill whatever larva may be in your grains and you can then store them regularly, in air tight containers, after that. 

Jena503

We have a deep freeze and keep a giant bag of rice in there as well as a lot of flour (white, wheat, rye) and sugar. I've done it for years and never had a problem with it. I pull out a canister's worth of rice/flour/sugar at a time. The rice does perfectly. The flour I've read needs to be at room temp before you use it in a recipe, but I usually don't wait and didn't have a problem. Sugar does get a little clumpy, but the clumps break easily.

I've never tried pasta, but I can't imagine it would make it go bad.

nicolethegrrr8

My husband insists on storing pasta and rice in the freezer and flour in the refrigerator. I had never done this before, but whatever floats his boat. I have found that when I cooked brown rice (after being stored in the freezer) it had weird white spots on it, and the texture seemed off, but everything else I can't tell a difference.