[Sca-cooks] OOP: Mystery flour-like substance in my cabinet

[Stefan li Rous]

Da commented:
> > Drops of water .
> > Da
>
>   I will elaborate some.

Good. Considering the season, I was wondering if you baptizing the 
flour or something. :-) "Go forth and be rice flour", "Go forth and be 
cornstarch". :-)

>   I take it you have worked with flour , rice flower , and cornstarch.
> So it
> would follow that you should know how each reacts with water. Tasting
> could
> be unsafe as your unsure what you have. There are other methods but
> drops of water ranks right up there.

Okay, Margaret may know how these react differently to water, but 
although I have used flour and cornstarch, and I think have some rice 
flour in the cabinet, I didn't realize they reacted to a few drips of 
water differently enough to notice. How do they react differently. I 
may have to just go try this, but I'm not quite sure what I will be 
looking for. All of these act as thickeners, right?

Since this powder is unlikely to be something unedible, such as 
detergent or some such, since it was apparently stored in a food 
cabinet, is there any reason a small taste would hurt you? I'm not sure 
this would help with this question though, unless the powder is 
powdered sugar or salt.

Stefan
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