Shop Mitram Atta 9.08kg Online

Because it is an imperial weight converted to metric - 9.08kg is 20 pounds, and 4.54kg is 10. Packs milled or specified for markets that still work in pounds keep the imperial weight and print the metric equivalent, which is how you end up with two decimal places on a bag of flour. There is nothing unusual about the pack itself.

No, and swapping them one-for-one will not give you what you expect. Atta is milled differently and takes up water differently, so a dough made to a recipe written for plain flour will come out wrong on the first go. Add the water gradually and work to the feel of the dough rather than to the number in the recipe, and give it time to rest before you roll - most of the difference between a stiff dough and a soft one is resting, not kneading.

Go by the best-before date on the pack, which is the manufacturer's, and by smell. Wholemeal flours generally keep less well than white flour, so a bag standing open in a warm cupboard will taste flat long before anything is wrong with it. If it smells sharp or stale rather than faintly sweet, it is past its best and no amount of resting will fix the dough.

Decant it into sealed airtight containers rather than leaving it in the sack it arrived in. That sack is made to survive a pallet and a courier, not six months in a kitchen. Keep the containers cool, dry and out of direct light, use a dry scoop every time, and keep a small working container by the bench so the bulk stays sealed.

Sealed containers, and a couple of days in the freezer when the bag arrives. Both usually come into the house inside the goods rather than flying in, so treating the bag on arrival catches the problem before it spreads to everything else on the shelf. If you do find them, the whole container goes - not just the top layer.

Only if you get through it. A big bag standing open for a year is not a saving, because flour goes flat whether or not you use it. Work out roughly how much your household uses in a month before you size up, and if you do, split it into a working container and a sealed reserve rather than opening the whole thing at once.

The ingredient list, any allergen statement, the country of origin and the best-before date, all of which are the manufacturer's to state and are printed on the packaging rather than reproduced here. The product page carries the weight, the barcode and the date as the store entered them.

Yes. DoorToShop is a multi-merchant marketplace, so this can go in the same cart as items from other local stores and you check out once.

Delivery is calculated at checkout, where the exact amount is confirmed. Free delivery applies above the threshold shown there, in the Auckland region only. There is no minimum order value, and you can combine items from other local stores in the same cart.