/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>7952051
>Roach Blitzkrieg

>>7952058
Anyone who thinks this is just laziest needs to watch this. Living like that is a sign of mental illness.

Anyone need any kitchen pest control tips? I've been in the business for 3 years now.

>>7952237
I just keep my place clean so I don't have any issues

>>7952237
>kitchen pest control tips
How do we stop weebs constantly shitting up, /ck/?

>>7952237
all I get is small flying bugs near my kitchen drain and or trash.

>>7952237
tiny ants coming in through window, tried resealing, tried baking powder, ant traps. buggers are persistent

>>7952275
Pour some bleach down the drain, take out the trash daily.

>>7952278
Try buying Advion Ant Gel. You can get it on Amazon for cheap.

>>7952237
Is there a better fruit fly trap than the usual apple cider vinegar/dish soap/pepper?

Does diatomaceous earth get everywhere usually, or am I doing something horribly wrong?

No bully, I live in the boonies. No amount of cleaning counters and hiding food fixes the constant onslaught of insect life that wants air conditioning.

>>7952269
This

>>7952289
For flying insects, it's all about finding the source.

People who juice a lot get fruit flies from not taking out the trash enough, people with water leaks get mosquitos, if you dump a lot of food down the drain, you'll want to pour some bleach down there occasionally.

Diatomaceous earth won't help pretty much at all for flying bugs.

>>7952289
Go to your local hardware store and buy an actual fly trap, the kind you open, pour water inside, and hang up.
I had an RV that had a fly problem in the bathroom. Took care of that shit almost immediately.

>>7952307
>>7952308
Thank you!

>>7952286
thank you. will do

>>7952308
>>7952344
>>7952345

A proper fly trap will only affect houseflies. It won't affect fruit flies.

For fruit flies, the trap depicted in OP works well. A piece of overripe fruit is even better bait than cider vinegar. Just toss an old piece of fruit in there. Or a spoonful of jam.

>>7952363
I would reconsider that statement.

>>7952308
>>7952375
Why?

You can make literally the same thing at home for the cost of a bit of vinegar and a drop of dish liquid (or sugar water with a pinch of bread yeast and a drop of soap). Just put it in a glass or jar and put a funnel in it as the lid.

It works like crazy. The vinegar flies go into the trap, hit the water and can't swim out due to the soap breaking the surface water tension. You can use old fruit too, but you'll need to take the trap outside and let the vinegar flies out more often. With the water-soap method it can fill up and fill up and not need emptying for a long time.

>>7952375

Fair enough, I've simply never seen the fruit fly versions for sale anywhere, whereas the ones for houseflies are super common.

If anon can get the fruit fly type then sure, use 'em. But understand that's not the same thing as a generic "fly trap".

>>7952393

You don't even need the funnel at all if you're putting soap in it.

>>7952420
True, but it is better to have the funnel. When you move by the trap it can disturb the ones perched on the inside of the glass and they fly out. If you have a funnel and you go to empty it, you don't have tons of them escaping.

The closer the funnel is to the water the better too.

>>7952237
Is there an home remedy that can repel flies? I keep my windows open day and night during summer since it's always hot as hell even during rain.

>>7952393
My mum uses wine

Do you actually catch more flies with honey then vinegar or is that an old wives tale

>>7952486

Repel? No.

You can get screens for your windows though. That will let air through but not the flies.

>>7952507

I've found the best thing to be actual fruit. They are fruit flies after all, so one would expect that they are most attracted by the smells of fruit.

>>7952507
I use a small open container with some apple cider vinegar. Works like a charm.

I raised rabbits for food while renting. Had no idea how much the fuckers would chew cabinetry when I left them to their own devices. Couldn't keep them outside cuz AZ... hot days, coyotes at night.

>>7952486
wine, plenty of sugar and dish washing liquid.

>>7952507
It's an old wive's tale. Flies fucking love apple vinegar.

>>7952563
Hahaha. They consumed your deposit before you could consume their adorable flesh. Did you even break even with your rabbit meat savings?

>>7952548
This. Though I tend to put saran wrap over it with small holes poked into it. It's crazy how well it works.

>>7952237
What should I put on my mouse traps? I tried peanut butter but only got one of the fuckers.

Posted before but will repost.

>alkie asian housemate, drunkass fuckwad foreign student I get stuck living with
>guy gets drunk every night, does stupid fucking shit, nearly sets house on fire several times by passing out while cooking
>like actual fire alarm blaring, toxic smoke filling the house, guy is still passed out level drunk kitchen fire
>also completely filthy, would leave leftovers on the stove for a week, put bowls of food and condiments uncovered in the dish cabinets
>he would put huge chunks of food and even eggshells and banana peels in the sink, no garbage disposal in sink btw
>left his dirty dishes with food still on them laying around for weeks at a time
>you get the picture
>go downstairs to kitchen one day, stop
>floor is moving
>look closer
>maggots
>living carpet of maggots all over kitchen
>exposed to light and noise, the maggots begin to flee
>call for help from housemates, alkie refuses to get out of bed and ignores me
>go outside and dryheave
>have to clean up the maggots before they make it to safety and start becoming flies or else flypocalypse
>literally thousands of maggots
>anon with paper towels vs 2000 maggots

>alkie eventually dropped out of college and got deported

>Get really drunk at home
>See a roach running around my kitchen
>No you don't asshole
>Try to kill it
>Hides under a plastic cutting board I left on the stove
>Light the stove to flush it out
>Kill it when it runs away, clean up the mess
>Go back to drinking
>Starts getting hot and something smells
>Well that's weird
>Knock at the front door, which is near the kitchen
>Forgot to turn off the stove

And that's why there's plastic fused to the floor

>>7952688

I find peanut butter to be highly effective. The trick is to apply it to the trap so that the mice can't simply eat it off the trap without triggering it.

If your trap has the metal "trigger", then stuff the peanut butter inside the little rounded part. Don't just put a glob on there.

If the trigger is the plastic kind that looks like a piece of cheese then put the peanut butter on the bottom side of it.

And don't forget to locate them like pic related. Mice travel along walls, so put the traps there. They're unlikely to be visited if you just stick them in the middle of a room.

Current first time homeowner kitchen situation:

"pantry moths" are coming from somewhere and keep filling up traps, even though there is NO more food for them that has been left exposed int he kitchen. What do?

>>7952719
How and why? How is it possible that 2000 maggots suddenly appear overnight

>>7952688
The way I busted my mice with a non-lethal cage trap is to put the trap against the wall near their hole, facing away from it. Then when you see them out of their hole and on the other side of the trap, spook them. They dart towards their hole in a panic and run right into the trap.

Never caught a single one with bait (I tried peanut butter, cheese and chocolate) but that trick worked every time.

>>7952237
Silverfish please. I tried a tall glass with bait in the bottom and a bit of card leading over the top but haven't caught any yet.

I also bought the diamotaceous earth but haven't tried it. Not really sure what to do with it.

Please help bugbuster anon.

>>7952732
Mice are disgusting but I hate mousetraps so much.

>Indian roommates
>Leave used fast food packaging and tupperware containers everywhere
>Refuse to take out their trash
>Constantly having guests over that leave more food everywhere
>Open kitchen cabinet to use garbage
>Explodes into flies

>>7952845
Fly orgy.

>>7952051
Mouse gnawing at stuff.

>>7952051
had something like this in the kitchen
i drink nothing but squeezed lemons with water and got too comfortable to keep leaving the lemons out of the fridge
took about week or two and i couldnt get rid of them, those fuckers sat everywhere, even on the sponge i was sashing dishes with

>>7952051
>>7952363
how that shit works? never seen it before

>>7952869
they have no kill ones

>>7952936
Be sure to never get glue traps. Pointless cruelty.

No-kill cages are best. Let them prance into mouse freedom in a field outside of town. You were going to visit the field anyway because Pokemon Go.

>>7952719
Why didn't you clean earlier?

>>7952950

>Caring about fucking animals
>Pokememe go

This post is pure distilled reddit.

>>7952732
You should wash your mousetrap with hot water to get rid of incriminating human smell or the smell of mouse blood.

>>7952744
Not Anti-Pest poster.
They bore out from some packaging.

Put everything into freezer bags.

>>7952875
Clean. Throw away unlabeled stuff.

>>7952845

Dunno. We had flies in the house pretty bad prior. Somewhere between when I last checked the kitchen at like 5pm and when I woke up at am there they appeared. I think they bred in the protection of the trash bin, and overnight decided to leave the nest and depart for new adventures on the kitchen floor.

>>7952953

Not my job to clean after him. I can clean and clean and clean and he'll just shit it up within a day so what's the point? Thank god my new flatmate is a clean freak. Now the kitchen is spotless. (different place.)

>>7952875
>Indian roommate
>Leave excrements everywhere
>Refuses to poo in loo
>Constantly having guests diarrhea
>Open kitchen cabinet
>Explodes into poo

>>7952744
these fuckers can be anywhere
ie between papers, cartons, glasses
they like also wooden shelfs

mother had tons them in pic related

>>7952986
What state do you live in?

>>7952986
You let him. Leaving it shat up would only lead to more problems down the line.

How'd you get rid of him? Move out?

>>7952950
>Let them prance into owl/cat territory
That's one way.

I heard there are three ways to dispose of a live mouse. The army way, the navy way and the air force way.

The army way: Buried alive.
The navy way: Flushed down the toilet.
The air force way: Thrown out of a car moving at speed.

>>7953050
In the Navy we actually put the mouse in a ziploc bag, stomp on it to crush the head, then throw it in the trash compactor with some weights to be jettisoned into the ocean. Mice at sea are serious business.

>>7953076
And i thought marines were heartless

>>7953076
>then throw it in the trash compactor with some weights to be jettisoned
I think if it survives the ziploc bag and the stomping, escapes from the bag and swims back to your boat then it has earned it's place on your ship. The trash compactor is just overkill.

But seriously, what can a mouse do to fuck up a ship? Chew through wires and start a fire is all I can think of. Maybe contaminate food and make the crew ill, or vital food stores unusable? Is there a critical situation caused by mice that I'm missing?

I'm not saying having mice on your ship is a joke, it just seems like a slight overreaction.

>>7953119
I'd rather not have the majority of my ships crew performing poorly due to illness.

Or have our supplies ruined and shat on by a fucking rodent

One time I spilled 25 Gallons of cheddar cheese sauce all over the floor.

>>7953026

He dropped out and got deported.

>>7952051
I worked at a kitchen that had a cook test positive for herpes.
I wonder how many dishes he bled in before that, and how many other cooks there are who just don't know.

>>7953119
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>>7953119
disease at sea is bad news.

>>7953119
It sounds like overkill but trash compactor + overboard is just how we disposed of all trash.

The mice were getting into our rice and flour stores, engorging themselves, and dying inside the bags. Aside from being entirely disgusting, when you lose food stores underway you just have to deal with it until the next scheduled port visit, which can be a couple months away.

>>7953151
>>7953152
Yeah it just occurred to me that you could be a thousand miles from the nearest hospital, or that someone essential to the boat's functioning could get ill.

>>7953076
Needless pollution of the oceans , just kill it and throw it overboard.

>>7952508
>You can get screens for your windows though. That will let air through but not the flies.

Holy crap! I've never thought of that!

Gonna get some installed right after this Zika thing passes by.

>>7953198
Zombie mice are even worse than standard mice.

Worse thing probably is when we shipped out a dried fruit mix to a school, and we had run a bit short. The guy supervising the shift went to the grocery store and bought trail mix, then picked out the nuts and other crap.

A few days later we got a notice that one of the children that ate the dried fruit mix had a violent peanut allergy reaction and nearly died. Needless to say, dude got fired.

>>7952051
there was an ant problem at my old house (moved in when I was a freshman in high school) but we fixed it eventually (taping over holes, using ant repellent)

I've always had problems with oven temperature. at my old apartment the heating element was shit so everything turned out undercooked. at my current apartment the stove element is good but the burners always get fucked over in various ways.

>>7953148
That guy didn't fuck up by having herpes, most people have herpes but don't show any symptoms, he fucked up
by bleeding in the food

>>7952990
Cackled so hard at this

>>7953132
full story please? even if that is pretty much the full story. Also pics?

Ceiling fell off

fuck

>>7953478

not much to tell. I was making a shitload of cheese sauce in a huge tilting steam kettle. when I went to pour the sauce in a giant cambro, another worker distracted me and I hadn't noticed that the cambro was set a couple inches away from the edge of the kettle. So the sauce poured out all over the floor.

It was a lot of fucking sauce and a bitch to clean up. It took me a couple hours, no joke.

>>7952955
>Caring about fucking animals
>This post is pure distilled reddit.
hello newfriend, 4chan and especially /b/ have always cared about animals, and were vehemently against animal abuse.

>>7952950
no kill cages are retarded unless you plan on dispatching them yourself
either the mice will come back (homing instinct), infest somewhere else, or die anyway

>>7954162

glue trap is best trap. i catch frog, beetle, snake, tiny duck, mouse, rat, baby rat, salamander, pray mantis, lizard, cockroach, grasshopper, dragonfly, moth, mole, ants

work very good

>>7952732
No, you can't use peanutbutter like that. They will lick it off no matter how you apply it bare like that.

You must be tricky. Wrap a short string around the trigger plate. Smash peanut butter into the string. The mouse can't lick it off and will apply pressure to nibble it off.

>>7954162
>>7952950
It is called a "Live Trap".

They are great when you need some live bass bait.

Apartment just got infested with cockroaches some how over the past month or so.

I've only seen two (in the day time) but a few apartments in my building are infested to shit.

I've just been keeping my counters clean and had an exterminator put down bait.

I'm just trying my best to keep them out of my place. Haven't seen any poop, but I've seen a bunch of that Brown sticky spray they shit out to attract others.

>Staying at university over summer for internship
>Graduate student apartments have a ton of Indians that are subletting for the summer
>Get an apartment living with 3 other people, $350 per month
>Trash everywhere
>Pots full of food sitting out
>Fridge full of things that expired months ago (milk, moldy bread, etc)
>Throw out all of the expired shit, clean a shelf on the fridge for my stuff
>They get upset that I didn't get permission to throw out their science experiments
>I tell them I did them a favor and that clearly they weren't going to eat any of the shit that I had seen sitting for days uncovered, at 90 deg, with flies swarming the food
>They're all Indian so they don't really argue, just act kinda passively upset
>Live out my 2 months in my bedroom, cooking as minimally as possible.

>>7955509
>clearly they weren't going to eat any of the shit that I had seen sitting for days uncovered, at 90 deg, with flies swarming the food

You've not spent much time around Indians, have you?

>>7955515

I was naive at the time, now I realize Indians are subhuman and will actively poison themselves in lieu of having to use a free refrigerator. Either way the food was a breeding ground for flies, bacteria, and AIDS.

I have a ton of spiders everywhere in my home for some reason, including the kitchen, but mostly in my bathroom.

I don't see a lot of flies or other insects around, so I am not sure what they are eating.

today I was doing some cleaning and found a spider had crawled into the rice cooker I used just last night

>>7952237
Roaches. We aren't the cleanest bunch of all time but there's no reason we should be having such a goddamn problem.

Had some pest control dudes come through and seal their suspected hideout hole, bomb the place, spray the floorboards

Bastards are still all over the kitchen, but pretty much only the kitchen. We catch them in the bath occasionally.

>>7952058
What show / episode is this?

>>7952688

use a bucket trap instead of conventional trap. With a conventional snap trap they can eat the bait and still run away safely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSk79YcuIRQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4PaGvAhV9I

I unsurprisingly live at home, and my mom keeps the kitchen relatively clean.

The worst thing we experience is greasy buildup on top of the stove, fridge, and ceiling.

>>7952051
oil fire in a pan i was freaking out crying and scared then my grandpa took the pan from me and put water in it and it shot up high

>>7953076
I moved into an apartment once and within a month of moving in got 2 mice. I didn't even have any food at that point besides a couple boxes of cake and brownie mix as I was still eating out everyday then. Anyways, I bought some of those live traps that when they run into them the trap tips and shuts the door close. I read that to get rid of mice that you live trap you have to take them a tleast a mile away and I was not doing that. So I put the trap and the mouse in a ziploc bag inside of another bag and just stuck them in the freezer. Next day threw em out like garbage never had mice since.

>>7957047
You don't see any flies because of the spiders.

Glad to see Im not the only one that fucked up with fruit flies.

Had a 1 room apartment during college and made some fettucini or some other whatever the fuck and fell asleep without cleaning my pan, only I had stuck it in the oven to make space for my textbooks on the stove (small place) and forgot about it.

After a few days, fruit flies fucking everywhere. I check under the sink, around the floors, I'm shouting to myself THERE ISNT ENOUGH SPACE IN HERE FOR THESE LITTLE NIGGERS TO BE SO HARD TO FIND! So day after day I just spray them as I see them, only to eventually discover my fateful pan in the oven.

My god, just opening the oven loosed a cloud of fruit flies, touching the pan loosed another one. I had to actually wear a mask or I would have been choking on them. I unhooked my fire alarm and just gassed my place with everyhting I had, set up poison traps and everything else and stayed at parent's house for a few days, came back and cleaned up after the apocalypse.

>>7952051
so far i've managed to avoid any extreme situations which is weird because ive lived with some really crappy roommates that live garbage everywhere. at worst ive seen maggots in some dirty pot that was left out for a week or so.

here's another story tho, not in the kitchen but in one room i used to live in - one night I come back and turn on the lights, look at the curtains on the window and realize they're fucking covered in FLIES, maybe about 20 huge fat flies and they're just sitting there, not moving, even when I tried to scare them away. there wasnt any garbage in my room or anything, I dont know where they came from but I think it was just befure autumn and maybe they just came to my room to die for some reason? it just struck me as so absurd, how are you supposed to handle this situation? it was like some weird David Lynch scene

>>7957086
Filename nigga

>>7952275
Clean your drain of physical debris. If you have drain flies, drain cleaner might not kill the larvae in your drain. Gotta physically scrape or snake the sludge out.

>>7952278
Try cinnamon, or diotomaceous earth (food grade). Failing that, look into conventional synthetic poisons. Good to know you already tried resealing and caulking entry points.

>>7952862
Silverfish need moist a moist living environment, so find and fix possible leaks, etc. Consider a dehumidifier for your living space, which may help with control efforts. The DE will also help when paired with the dehumidifier, as it works by causing tiny abrasions in the exoskeleton, which helps dessicate insects. If you have pets or children, try not to place the DE where they might get into it, but otherwise try along baseboards and under the sink, for starters.

>>7957771
Praise, oh mighty Bug Slaughterer. I have cockroaches, the fucking unkillable flying kind. Problem is they come from million holes in the walls and no amount of Raid gets rid of them, probably source is sewer, house old as time itself. Should I tear those walls down? I'm shitless scared of the bugs too so your help is appreciated

>>7952051

>buy second hand fridge from sketchy place
>it's barely cold, smells weird, and makes crackling noises
>days pass, start discovering cockroaches around the house
>find them on walls, floors, even inside the microwave and fridge
>tolerate it for a month before I pull the fridge away from the wall
>an explosion of cockroaches scatters across the floor in all directions
>a couple of sizable momma roaches too
>they've made a meganest in the engine of the fridge
>the radiator is covered in roach eggs
>piles of fried roach bodies around the electronics
>I guess that explains the crackling and weird smells

>>7957810
I'm getting second hand horror from your greentext. How did you got rid of the buggers?

>>7952950
Except you only find decent Pokemon in highly populated areas (i.e. town)
Otherwise I'd be fucking drowning in Pokemon, except I'm in the middle of the damn woods so the best I get is a Pidgey every now and then

More of an annoyance than a nightmare but
>Im a little lazy, occasionally leave stuff out for a bit but nothing crazy
>if kitchen/room is not completely spotless, annoying ass gnats come out of no where

zzzzzz, can a man not just be a little lazy for once in his life without getting fucked with by gnats?

>>7957812
I bought roach traps and insect spray. They were powerful creatures, nearly immune to the spray.
The roach traps worked well though. I placed them under the fridge. They were lured towards the bait, then the poison confused their brains. Within a minute of placing the traps there were hordes running out from underneath the fridge - it was that point where I realized the sheer numbers I was dealing with.
From there I picked them up with bits of toilet paper and flushed them. The first night was the worst, then the numbers slowly died away.

After that, I called a repairman to service the fridge. He was an elderly Chinese guy, and he was horrified by what he was dealing with. He replaced the radiator and scraped the dead roaches out of the electrical wiring.

So yeah, next time I buy a fridge I'm getting it new.

>>7952269
the weebs have more right to be here than you (and I) do.
your like a vegetarian going to a restaurant and complaining about the people who are eating meet there

>>7957810
dont tell me you kept the fridge

>>7957851
*meat

>>7957851
>more right to be here
No they don't, weeb.
>meet
Typical weeaboo retardation.

I learned a little about cooking and tried to one-man cooking all the July 4th food without much preparation or planning. I was visibly upset like Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh. How embarrassing.

>>7957863
A year later I still have it! Here's a photo. It's still not as cold as it should be. Milk goes off long before the expiry date.
I wish I was interested in /ck/ when it all happened. I would have live posted the entire ordeal.

>>7952051
When I was a kid my parents made a big deal of leaving me alone for one night while they went and did some stuff I don't want to speculate about out of state.

I'm like 10 I think?

>Hungry. Don't want what mom left in the fridge.
Decided to make chicken and pasta instead of eating what they left for me. Cuz I'm a BIG BOY NAO.

>Can't hurt myself or I'll never hear the end of it.
Cut up chicken, no fingers lost. Cook chicken, no fires started. Boil and strain pasta, no scalding involved. Sauced it, didn't spill it. No vegetables added, no fucks given.

>First bite: HORRIBLE.
Too bad. I made it. I'm eating it. I can cook for myself.

>Second bite: NASTY.
Oh god, it's so bad. T_T

>30min later.
>Last bite: Trying not to puke.
I HAVE MADE AND EATEN MY OWN DINNER. I AM THE MASTER OF ALL THINGS KITCHENLY.

>Time to clean up.
Box of pasta on the counter is missing the plastic "window". Pot I boiled pasta in has this ring of plastic dried stuff around the edge where the water line was.

>>7957941

>>7957933
well to be fair it does look like a decent fridge. i imagined something like the busted ancient communist-era fridges we have over here, everyone has one inherited from their grandparents and everyone is trying to sell them

>>7952058
whenever I see stuff like this I always end up being super creeped out at the thought that my neighbours could be living like this and I would never know, until my own flat gets a roach infestation

Moldy food
rats
cockroaches
sketchy smell

>>7957810
>buying second hand fridge
enjoy your tripled electricity bill

>>7957827
The lessons you learned will not be forgotten, brave anon. Fuck it I'm checking any used furniture I buy in the future no matter how new or fancy it looks. Cockroaches are something no one should deal with

>>7952051
>dad moves out and rents the house out to me
>have my best friend and her fiance move in to split the cost
>mistake.jpg
>they turn out to be the messiest people, and don't respect my rules when it comes to my kitchen supplies
>leave dishes out for weeks on end
>once made general tso's chicken and left it sitting on the stove for a week
>one day they were gone and I was cleaning out the fridge
>look on "their shelf" and see a bunch of white shit in plastic bins hidden in the back
>wtf is this
>it's 3 containers worth of strawberries that have turned almost completely to mold

>tell them we get ants in the summer, so cleanliness is a must
>they constantly leave food out
>once just left an entire uneaten pizza on the counter while they played video games
>I opened the box around midnight and it was swarming with ants

>the fiance never cleans, never cooks
>once he made himself a bowl of cereal (around Feb)
>the tupperware had a hole in it, he laughed and showed us his mess of milk
>we all laughed, but then he came into the living room and just ate without cleaning the mess up
>milk all over the counter, down the cabinets, on the floor
>tell him to go clean it up
>he gets pissed, but "cleans" it anyways
>they move out in July, as I clean up "their" silverware drawer, I find a thick film of crusted, rotten milk coating the bottom of it, with some silverware still stuck in it

So happy they moved out and I'm not friends with them anymore. It was fucking disgusting.

>>7952393
LOL all those flies trying to get out.

time to clean my apartment

Not my kitchen but my parents home used to occasionally get infested with mice and even a rat or two one of which seemed to live in the oven's grill(broiler for americans i think) that they cooked in without noticing or maybe just not caring about the rat shit.

>>7952051
It was Fall semester our junior year, we had been living together for the 2 years prior. because we were such jews, we would always make group meals. near the end of the semester we made one of those crappy allrecipies crockpot sesame chicken memes and then we forgot about it. for almost 2 months over the break. it was literally just carbon when we got back. we chipped away at it, pryed, washed, everything. it was a fucking fossil. when i wasnt looking, my roommate had the bright idea of trying to boil water in it. to he took out the ceramic insert, and put it directly on the stove element, and tried to boil water in it. it instantly stattered and exploded.

>>7952058
Oh god damn I watched this episode and that shit was disgusting. Literally every fucking room they went into was filled with roaches.

Also they had this weird toilet rig set up that was kind of hilarious.

>>7957808
Well, first a few preliminary questions.

Do you have an approximate idea of what type of roach you are dealing with? Consult the resources I'll include in this post, and try to figure it out, as knowing what you're dealing with can help when planning control strategies.

Have you considered sealing the holes with caulk or spackle? A good first step to many pest control problems is making sure you seal up cracks, holes, refit loose windows/doors/screens, etc., to remove as many points of entry as possible. This cannot prevent intrusion with 100% success, but it really does help.

Have you already tried contacting a pest control agency, or received a quote from one? If it's a really bad infestation, I'd recommend looking into professional help, since they have access to insecticides that the average layman isn't able to procure, are trained in knowing where to apply baits and poisons to maximize their effect, and deal with this sort of stuff for a living.

PDFs for your viewing pleasure.

http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/departments/esps/factsheets/household_structural/understanding_cockroach_control_hs06.html

http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/roach/cockroach%20manual.pdf

http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/eh/docs/specialized/vector_management/cockroachmgmt.pdf

>>7957808
advion syngenta gel
available on amazon for next to nothing
don't bother with the bullshit homeopathic remedies
I had a roach problem a few years ago, applied like 2 dollops of the gel the size of the head of a pin
within 12 hours the first dead roaches started to appear
by 72 hours they were all dead
they have never returned

opening the rice cooker was pretty bad, not worst, but up there

>>7952959
completely unnecessary.

i've been using the same traps for years, they still catch them at alarming rates...even once the peanut butter is all eaten or dried and flaked off

>>7952869
I am pretty sure there are types of disposable traps that they enter that will snap their necks allowing you to just pick it up and throw it away without having to look at them.

>>7954185
post your dollar with a glue trap

>move back in mom
>Every single drawer below counter level is unusable
>Mom allowed mice to take over and shit all over drawers and bottom level cabinets
Living with her is driving me crazy. Never met anybody else so absolutely disgusting about their home living.

>>7957771
Thanks for the silverfish help m8

>>7952051
fucking fruit flies.

>>7952145
That's how my apartment look until a week ago when I finally cleaned it up.

I'm also a non-functioning alcoholic.

>>7961194
>Also, I'm a lazy piece of shit
Ftfy

>>7957056
Take care of leaks, and sources of moisture in the kitchen. As you probably know by now, keep all food properly sealed up in containers so that the roaches cannot get into the contents. A chip clip won't cut it here. It is imperitive that you keep your home (and particularly kitchen) spotless. If pest control laid down insecticidal gel baits in high traffic areas of the house, keeping everything clean (and thus free of food options for them) may encourage them to feed on the gel, and let it work its magic.

Now, I probably shouldn't recommend it, since it is technically illegal, but if you go to a Chinese market, you can almost always find "Chinese Ant Chalk." You take it, draw a little, lethal outline around hideouts where roaches will stay during the day (draw along the fridge, by the sink floor, etc.). When they come out at night and contact the chalk outline, they get some nasty poisons that should start working quickly. It will not be 100% effective, but it should make a dent, and will help in conjunction with your existing control measures. It's also dirt cheap.

That said, I would NOT recommend using it if you have kids or pets in your home. Also, use gloves when you handle it. It's made in China, the exact ingredients can change from batch to batch, so it's a bit of a crapshoot as to what harmful things made their way into a given batch (usually deltamethrin and cypermethrin as active ingredients, plus/minus a few other things and some binders) so once you're done relying on it, clean it up carefully with a damp disposable cloth, as sweeping or vacuuming may disperse it into the air, which probably wouldn't be good for your health.

The original Pest Control Anon recommended Advion gel bait, which - while more expensive - is going to be safer, more precise, and less messy than the death chalk.

>Fucking weird bugs resting in my silverware tray
>Always wash the tray out, including the silverware
>They still come back

That only happens when I leave it in the drawer.
If it's on top of a counter, they don't show up. Shit is baffling

currently using peanut butter plus borax for tree roaches my wife just saw one the other day and just moved to an apartment next to some woods.

any other ways to deal with these huge roaches?

>>7952869

One time during the night shift I found a mouse that had been stunned in a mouse trap but not killed. I took some rubber gloves out of the workplace medical cabinet and check to see if the mouse was responsive. When it didn't move to my pokings and proddings, I took it out of the trap, took it over to my desk, and used my pocket knife which I keep very sharp to dissect it alive.

Some sort of temporary insanity took over me, I didn't know why I did it, I was just suddenly curious to see what it looked like inside. I saw his little heart beating and his little lungs moving and everything.

I mean, of course I poked him a few times with a knife to see if he would respond to pain, but when he didn't move at all and just kept breathing I went ahead with it.

His heart was still beating when I was finished so I just threw him in the garbage.

>>7952051
Literal fire x2
Fruit flies
Dead mouse under the fridge
Keeping the oven open as a heat source in the winter
Ants raiding shit in plain sight


Never, ever, take cheap college housing for the 'location' unless you can handle it. Luckily I don't really give a fuck but oh wow, was it an experience.

>>7954800
>Brown sticky spray they shit out to attract others.

W-what

>>7952051
I have no insects but silverfish and moths.
I don't mind either.

Mold on the other hand? Whooo boy. That's what I get for buying a waterlogged apartment.

>>7952507
I put out a small bowl of honey when some fruit flies appeared caught one. the aromaticity strongly decreased and a crust formed on the honey likely stopping further aromatization.
honey a shit for flies.

>>7952058
It's like a god damn roach ecology

>>7952237
Ants please

They were really bad during the springtime, all up in the cabinets and my bedroom. The problem's died down, I assume because of the summertime heat here, but they still seem to be sending nothing but scouts on the countertops and attacking any food that gets there

What is it about roaches that make them terrifying?
I mean jesus christ, they just kinda walk all over everything. I don't get why I'm so scared of them.

>>7952237
spiders (not in the kitchen actually, but everywhere else)
living on the ground floor they probbaly come in throught the window. After i vacuum all the corners, depending on the weather they will be repopulated in 2-7 days
one time i woke up with a spider web constructed between the wall and my head

>>7954800
>Brown sticky spray they shit out to attract others
indians are people too

>live in house with 3 other roommates in college
>most are very clean and tolerable in kitchen
>one is complete sperg in kitchen
>we start getting grain weevils
>we tell everyone to go through their shit and throw things out
>we repeat and make sure sperg roommate understands
>weevils don't go away
>ants start appearing
>rogue roaches
>one day we get so fed up we open up spergs cabinet while she isn't home
>everything seemingly clean
>I move some pots
>behind pots an old-ass box of pasta, an open candy bar and a moldy can of something
>also dead weevils and ants fucking everywhere
>immediately throw shit out and charge an extra $100 on roommate bill
>she doesn't even notice

She didn't even eat pasta because she had celiacs so we have no idea why that was in her cupboard.

>>7965333
>we have no idea why that was in her cupboard
attempted assasination?

>>7952744
Fucking pantry moths trigger the fuck out of me.

Have any type of grain? It goes in the fridge until that shit is completely gone. This includes flower. Why? Let's say you're half awake and you don't close your cereal container completely. RIP your cereal. I mean, how diligent are you ACTUALLY going to be? Fridge is the easiest way to ensure no bugs.

Actually empty your cupboards and clean them with bleach. Throw out stuff. Inspect all boxes. All of them are a potential nursery.

Another thing you could do is bug bomb, but it wasn't that effective for the kind of autism that were my old roommates. Those fucks were filthy. Pic related to their filth.

Why didn't I clean up after them? I gave up after the first couple months. I was also the odd one out who actually was not OK with living in filth while the other three were content.

>>7957810
Reminds me of turning people's computers away because their computers were infested with roaches.

>>7958355
Good on you. Dropping people like that is pretty satisfying.

A year and a half ago I had a pantry beetle(?) infestation in my cabinets. Signs that they were there started about a year prior, I just didn't know those were signs until I started finding the beetles in everything. A couple of times I saw one or two in some packaged pasta I had, but they didn't look like bugs. They were smooth, shiny brown dots and looked like seeds. I thought they were just something from the manufacturing process. I realized they were bugs only when I saw them in another product. I flipped my shit and tore through everything in my cabinets, but it was too late. I had to throw out so much stuff: flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, seasonings, etc. I threw out unopened packages as well, because I saw one of them stuck in some cornmeal packaging from trying to chew its way through. Fuck knows how many of them actually made their way in. BTW why are things like flour, cornmeal and sugar packaged in such flimsy paper sacks? Also, it was a double-infestation and the other bugs looked like very skinny, very tiny flies. These were very attracted to flour.

After throwing everything out, I wiped down all of the cabinets and the outsides of whichever containers were still safe. The improvement was immediate, but the few bugs that remained got really fucking desperate.
>clinging to the rims of sealed containers of sugar, honey, flour, etc.
>bore holes through dry pasta
>one even tried to eat through a plastic ziplock bag but got stuck

I just kept cleaning the outside of all my containers after every use and all traces that they ever existed were gone after two months. I now clean out my cabinets completely about twice a year and keep all of my products sealed extra well. I haven't had the problem reoccur.

I get flies really badly every Summer too, but not as many now that I do the dishes immediately after cooking/eating.

>Lived with my parents until a year and a half after high school
>Their place was infested
>Like Imhotep's coffin in The Mummy
>Tiny German roaches marching around everywhere
>Parents claimed they weren't that bad
>Those fuckers actually made a foul smell that made me sick all the time
>"Oh anon, you're just over reacting"
>I'd wake up with some in my mouth or ear almost every day
>They even infested all of my stuff that was locked up tightly
>Slap the top of my PlayStation 2
>Hundreds of babies come crawling out
>They even got stuck in outlets causing small fires and the breaker to cut off constantly

But none of that tops the kitchen. Oh lord, the kitchen.
>Moldy fridge with rotted food they'd never clean
>Thousands of squished and crushed roaches everywhere
>No food besides our white rice was safe

I joined the Navy just to get away from that place. My parents just burned it down with most of their stuff after buying a new house and called it an "electrical fire."

>>7952051
>Other
Decide to drink a whole bottle of makers mark with beer chasers. Blackout... wakeup on the kitchen floor surrounded by a billion tiny shards of glass. Apparently somehow I fell into or just smashed my glass cover for the oven. That shit still aint fixed and im dreading my landlord comes over to check on anything.
>pic related, towel is covering wreckage

>>7965814
Remove towel

>>7965814
Why not just...vacuum and sweep the area?

>>7965799
Christ this triggered me so hard. Almost the same story happened to me but it was fleas not roaches, and I simply rented my own place. I really wanted to murder my parents because not only could they not get rid of the fleas but had the nerve to say that im imagining it or that its my problem because the fleas aren't biting them.

>>7966498
>small pretty girl with horrible obese monster
this is my fetish

>>7966502
>>small
she looks tall tho, taller than the guy for sure

>>7966507
he's on one knee, also food and cooking

>>7957851
lol, you're fucking retarded

>>7961119
was she not like that when you were young?

I used to work at a tourist trap in the woods of NW Oregon. We served shitty food like nachos and hot dogs.

When you're literally in the woods, you can't keep the vermin away. The best you can hope for is to stem the tide enough that they're not shitting all over your stock. We had a long hallway connecting two food service areas, a large walk-in freezer, and a large dry goods cage.

They controlled the mouse problem by setting 5 gallon buckets 1/3rd full of used fryer oil in intervals of about 5 feet all along the hallway. It attracted the mice like crazy. They'd climb up the side, fall into the grease, and kinda flail around in it until they exhausted themselves and drowned. Then someone would come along and scoop out dead greasy mice in the morning.

Once I served soda all day long without realizing that a mouse had chewed his way into the syrup bag and drowned.

>>7953076
so THAT's how you have 300 confirmed kills

>>7965799
This really triggers me as I had to endure something very similar.
I am glad to hear you made it out, anon.

Ugh, this really gives me the chills just thinking about it.

>>7952237
How does one get rid of silverfish? I once had to throw an old cardbox away and I saw their cocoons and shells on the bottom. Turns out there was a fucking one piece of chewing gum in the cardbox and they were feeding on it.

>>7958355
I made a similar mistake
I let a friend move in with me because he wanted to live closer to his work. I thought it would be alright since I had been to his house and it was clean. But it turns out that his mom just cleaned up after him and he was a huge slob.
We had been friends for years but by the time I told him to move out I didn't want to see him ever again after dealing with all of his shit.

>>7952286
Talked my restaurant bug guy into giving me a tube of this. Traded him lunch. Try being nice with dude and keep it on dl
> shit kills the FUCK out of roaches.

>>7952051
Apartment: Roommate A left a bunch of dirty-but-not-nasty dishes in the sink the night before Roommate B's parents came over. Overheard B's mom over-react and had severe second-hand embarrassment.

House: Previous renter was a shitlord and had let mice get into the house. Roommate found and killed 2 of them before I moved in, and we hadn't seen any more for almost a month. I was messing with one of the "leftover" traps, and forgot it on the counter. Later that night I pushed it aside for temporary counter space, and promptly forgot about it. A day or two later, I'm in the kitchen talking with my roommate and notice something grey, furry, and motionless on the counter. "Potatochu" got itself killed by an unbaited trap.

>>7965245
I'm not scared of them, but they make me puke, or at least gag. I don't know why - not even flies have that effect on me, but for some reason, seeing roaches causes the same physiological reaction as getting a good whiff of formaldehyde.

They're just terrible things.

We had some pantry moths. My mom had bought some bird seed and forgotten about it.
Luckily:
1) We were all doing low/no carb at the time, so we didn't have any grains for them to get into.
2) The birdseed was in a nearby room and not the kitchen/pantry.
3) The vast majority of stuff we had was either refrigerated or in airtight stuff like cans and jars.

We eventually found the bird seed and tossed it. Their numbers started dwindling almost immediately, but it still took at least a month for the infestation to finally end.

>>7966486
I think the problem isn't "I need to clean up glass", but "Oven door is fucked and it's the landlord's property".

I used to play hitler with fruit flies by putting a baking sheet with some banana peels on it, then broiling when the flies settled down

>>7952507
Apple cider vinegar my dark skinned friend

>me and brother left at home for weekend while mom is in LA taking care of old ass relatives
>we're 11 and 12
>leaves us bunch of microwave food
>bro says lets make a pizza!
>FUCK YEA
>commence gathering all ingredients
>got dough, sauce, pepperoni, and cheese
>start goofing off yelling in italian accents while pressing out the dough
>bro presses dough out into giant penis with balls shape
>ultimate lawls
>start throwing pepperonies at cabinet and ceiling to try to get them on the dick shapes pizza
>OVEN TIEM
>"WHAT DO WE DOOO!!?!?!?"
>thought 265 was hot enough for 30 minutes cause we were scared of burning down the house
>30min later.... PIZZA TIEM
>both take a bite, and immediately look at each other and regret making the whole mess and ordeal of trying to make a pizza
>dont want our mom to find the pizza
>carry dick shaped pizza with part of balls missing 3 blocks away
>chuck it into the middle of busy street
>wait and watch cars drive over dick pizza
>both die of laughter and gather pizza remnants to throw further into road and run away
>mom comes home
>"WHERE THE FUCK ARE MY PIZZA INGREDIENTS"
>both tell her we made dick pizza
>she still hates us for wasting food

>>7958355
>start studying in university
>have to rent a flat, decide to do it with my ex-classmate that is going to study in the same uni the same thing
>he's fucking useless, doesn't know how to cook for shit, leaves his dishes on his table for 2-3 days, dirty knives and random dishes in the kitchen at random places all the time
>doesn't know how clean (literally had to tell him "rub" (well or something like that in my language))
>start getting cockroaches although it was possible they were in that flat b4, but only started noticing them after 2 months of living there
I was always told I was lazy, but man, he boosted my self confidence a lot
Thank god I won't be living with him anymore