dealing with 米虫 (kome mushi)

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV]

As part of the ongoing cleaning at home, I found a 5kg bag of rice
with some bugs in it...

I remember buying it shortly after 3/11 together with 2 other bags...
But at the speed of our family eating rice we are about to finish the
2nd (so 10 kg in 20 months, boy I used to eat more rice).

I did a quick research, those buggers seem common and people claim
they are harmless and you can sift the rice, then leave it on the sun
to clean. Well, may be if we lived in a farm -sure. Sifting buggy rice
on a tiny overcrowded balcony in central Tokyo is not an option. Plus
I am a bit worried about spreading those buggers around (so I wouldn't
do that even on a farm).

Just throwing the bag in the garbage may be OK, but doesn't seem
right. If I had a big freezer I'd freeze it, but I don't. It is too
big/too much for the microwave as well.
Next good thing is pouring boiling water on top and/or boiling it and
then throwing it.

Any good uses?

Anyone wants to try to make compost of it? Or sake or something?

Kalin.

[MRE]

Seems compost would be a good solution.
Ben would be the guy to talk to.

[Benjamin Davis]

I have no experience with kome-mushi (not that much interest in grains, really), but sake making sounds reasonable. (Turning into booze is *always* the best use of grain, imho. :D ) You may end up with a few steamed kome-mushi in your mash, but I imagine the yeast will win in the end over whatever might be in the bugs if all the other conditions are right.

Never tried it before, but it doesn't look that hard:

http://www.urbansake.com/sake-blog/1st-sake-meetup-brewin-sake-in-the-kitchen.html

http://www.taylor-madeak.org/index.php/2008/02/29/how-to-make-sake-at-home-a-taylor-made-g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVR5uQZ9sm8&noredirect=1

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