It is not necessary to vacuum seal salt and sugar. If kept dry, these have an unlimited shelf life. Moisture is what hardens them. If they harden, a grater or rasp make them usable again. I've successfully stored salt and sugar in clean, dry, tightly capped 2 liter soda bottles for more than 10 years. If you want to store in FoodSaver bags, just fill the bags and seal them without running the vacuum pump. Thus no risk of sugar or salt being drawn into the pump. Hope this helps someone.
I would recommend double sealing your vacuum bags on both ends. I've had a few bags lose its seal over time. With this method, I haven't lost a seal in yrs. Just added protection 👍
Back In 2020 I bought a 20 pound bag of flour. That was when flour was tough to get. I used the paper bags when sealing my flour. I kept mine in the freezer and pulled bags out as I needed more. It was great I put 2 pounds in a bag. Plus you can reuse the bags for smaller items then.
Hi I'm just learning how to do all of this stuff. I used mylar bags to keep cereal good for quite some time. I'm praying I did it right. Ordered a vacuum sealer and it didn't have any suction so sent it back and I will get a different one. It's hard being disabled and trying to get situated on disability but I'm getting there. I got a portable wood stove last week and I'm happy to accomplish that. Have a gas one burner and a stack of butane to run them. Wish I was awake and started this a long time ago but any time is better than none. Thank you for all your information!!
I have been air sealing for years and have used both jars .. food saver bags and the bags in bags or jar trick.. you can also put whole package into the bags.. I woukd like to sujest also that you can buy bakery bags in different sizes.. I use mylar bags primarily for flour.. oats.. istant potatoes and non food products.
Thank you!!! I've been trying to securely seal flour, like 100 pounds of it. I've inherited my mother-in-law's food saver, but I also have an impulse sealer as well as a vacuum chamber sealer. I think that the paper bag is going to solve a few problems. Again, thank you.
I am subscribed to your channel, and love your videos. You give a lot of great info. But when sealing these things, you said that if they felt better using an oxygen absorber to go ahead and use one. There are some things that you NEVER use an oxy absorber with, and Sugar is one of them. If you use an absorber, you will turn the sugar, ROCK HARD. You can check this info if you want. But people need to know that you Never use oxy absorbers with sugar. Salt, it just isn't necessary, and some have said that it will turn it hard also. I don't know if that is true or not, but it isn't needed.
I write on brown bag or at the very top of the food saver bag after sealing. So hen I cut the bag open I can wash it dry it and reuse the food saver bag. For pet food or seeds
I live alone so I prep like I cook. I put 1 of cup rice in a sandwich bag, cut across the fold and make two bags. With a piece of tape for the folded bottom of the cut top, I have a second bag. I put 3 to 4 of these bags in each vacuum bag. I do the same for all my dry foods. I take a pack out and move it to my working pantry. I reseal them after I remove 1 serving. This way my supplies go a long way.
I have planned to put individual dried meals in mylar bags. As well as things like toothbrushes and toothpaste for my entire family. Dried milk and flour and seasalt and brown sugar will be stored in mylar bags too.
I use mylar for most items. I like that mylar restricts light exposure on the food. I also throw the flour in freezer for couple days and wait until returns to room temperature before sealing. Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝
@@Jimbo_Conn Flour can become infested with similar insects. As far as I know all grains are subject to some kind of weevil infestation. Sometimes they are already present when the grain is purchased from the store.
I put my info on the paper bag instead of the vac bag as I reuse the vac bags after opening them for the product use. Also I use a bit of tape to hold down the bag top as it's folded over. The sugar tends to be a 'brick' when you open up the bag.
Thanks Charles. I like mylar bags because it keeps the light out. Exposure to light can cause some items to deteriorate over time. I buy my herbs in bulk so Mylar is perfect for my herbs. That is what I like best to put in mylar. It's interesting that your vac sealer says to put the rough side down. Instructions on mine says rough side up. So it really pays to read instructions before using a new product. Much Love
I only used 5 mayor bags so far and put 20 pound of rice in them . I love them because you can store food a long time and save money on future food prices.
New to food prepping. I've prepped 2×25 lb oats & 30 lbs of white rice in mylar bags & 5 gallon buckets so far. Not as hard as I thought it would be & cheaper than freeze dried foods (mountain house, my patriot, etc.). Evan a disabled person like me can do it. Give it a try, I think you'll enjoy it. God bless you all.
Thank you! I’ve got a ton of prepped stuff and recently bought a food saver at a discount store but it came with nothing as far as instructions. So simply making a bag was a revelation. I’ll be checking out more of your videos because it has all the attachments. I just don’t know how to use them. I literally have a thousand lunch bags I bought for another business. I’ll be busy! This is something I can have my teenagers do! :).
The Myler bags is a good way to store food for your family in these times. When you are on a fixed income they really help preserve foods. I use them for a lot of things like sugar,flour,salt seasonings.
I was so nervous to use mylar bags. I don’t know why. But once I got started, it was so easy. I think putting several pounds of spaghetti in a gallon bag was my favorite. It was good to get the pasta out of a cardboard box, and into something that would last. It was also a space saver.
I put some of my fruit from my trees in mylar bage as well as vegetables from the garden. Mylar is a good addition to pressure canning, home freezer. Gives a feeling of security.
I like Mylar for the added protection of keeping light from deteriorating the food. If you're making bread by hand you'll need an extra 1/2 cup of flour for working with the dough. Good video, Charles.👍 Blessings.💙
Since a bag of flour is good for regular shelf storage (in its factory packaging) for the length of time it takes you to use it up, why not just place the entire 5lb bag of flour into the food sealer bag?
I just leave the flour in the original bag and put it in the vaccume bag and then vaccume seal the whole thing. Store it in a plastic bucket. Easy as pie.
Im new to prepping so deciding to use the mylar was a little easier than other products. I like that you can seal them with a hot flat iron, so simple. I use them to store dry good like stuffing mix, some pastas and oats. I have the gallon bags and i have even cut them and made smaller bags, just seal up the sides. So easy.
I used them for first time a few months ago it was easier then i thought trying to do more prepping the way the world is looking like not good I got myself wife and three girls I gotta get ready for it's just a dads duty to be prepared
Just ran across your videos and definitely information useful to me. Along with sealing the individual ingredients as you've shown [including brown sugar] I think what I'll do is make dry mixes for muffins, biscuits, quick breads, etc &include diections on what moist ingredients to add to the mix along with baking temperature and time. This is great! Thank you so much! I'll be checking out more of your videos. 😊
For the small volume dry goods such as 2 pounds of beans I use my small chamber vacuum this would work well for small flour amounts as well. No need to worry about the flour being vacuumed up as chamber doesn’t work that way
I am new to prepping. So far I have used moral bags for fruit that I have freeze dried. I have also taken a bag of baking soda with a hole poked in the bag and put into Mylar bag and vaccine sealed that. Will wait at least six months to open. I hope I did everything right
I am new to prepping and have found your videos so helpful. Thank you for creating them. I just received my first set of mylar bags yesterday and can’t wait to use them. Thanks for all the tips.
You can if your bag of sugar will fit in your vacuum seal bag. You would just have a larger amount when you open it. I've been told that oxygen absorbers will make your sugar get rock hard. Haven't tried them in sugar.
I do it according to the amount that most recipes would use if I were to open one. Bread would be 4 cups because you need flour to roll out your dough. And my recipe calls for 3 & 1/2 cups.. should their be no power to reseal what you don't use. I use a straw and ziplock bag. I do it to my spices, they last forever
Good show. When I was young I had a daisy seal a meal. I absolutely loved it been many many years since then and my sister bought me another sealer I don't know what Brand it is never heard of it and I have bags that came with it and she bought a couple extra rolls of plastic for bags. I haven't tried it yet. Hopefully it's not in some other language that I can't decipher. Everybody tells me you can get food grade buckets from the pantry at Walmart but not our Walmart I've asked them a million times they reuse them they say my guess is they poor old grease in them and toss them. I don't know they just won't budge. I appreciate you showing everybody exactly how to do it you make it look simple maybe we put too much thought in it. Sorry I'm just now getting with you I have been sick with some sinus infection or something. 👍😄❤️✝️
i vacuum seal my jars of dry goods, however, i installed a 2 micron fuel filter ( from tractor supply ) in the suction line. it has saved my vac pump in my rather expensive food saver.
I am brand new to prepping and storage so I have been really investigating what methods are best/common and how to carry out proper storage methods. I have learned that Mylar bags are a common and effective method of storage if done properly with the correct o2 absorber. Thank you for all of your knowledge. I really appreciate it.
That's so awesome you're doing giveaways and whatnot. I think that's super generous of you, and even if I'm waaaay late you've got a sub from me. Thanks brother.
Hi Charles, yes I like the Mylar bags because they block out all light and gives it a tough protection. Ideal all the different types of beans, rice and pastas. I also seal the dry dog food in one gallon bags. The next items will be baking soda, corn starch and some coffee filters to keep them dry for long term.
I'm curious. I always worry aboit feeding my dogs (4labs 1shep) if things get hard. Have you had any trouble with dog food going rancid ? I mean it's full of oily stuff. How long have you been able to keep it?
Mylar bags are great for dehydrated food, instant potatoes, anything dry, for sure. I think you can do pressure canning (MRE type) stuff with mylar bags, but I haven't tried it yet. Sounds like it would work.
The biggest reason you need the paper sacks is to keep from plugging up the vacuum pump with the dust from what you are vacuum sealing. Besides the mess it can make.
I'm looking forward tti getting some bags as I've never used then before. This is my first year prepping.. never to old to learn something new Thanks for your program
I like mylar bags for long time storage of these things, as they just work better. On occasion, the food saver type bags will leak over time. The mylar give a better seal, and keep more light out. If doing sugar with the mylar, I would just push as much air out as possible, then seal it with a hair straightening wand. They work great. Some people use an iron like you iron clothes with, but the hair rod is easier, and much cheaper than the rod they sell for the purpose of sealing mylar bags. NEVER use an oxy absorber with sugar, or you will turn it into a brick. Makes it rock hard. Most other things, if using mylar, I also put in the right size oxy absorber to go with the size of the bag. I also use canning jars and seal them with the jar sealers made for that.
When you vacuum seal sugar, it turns into a brick, when you open up the bag, isn’t it still hard as a brick? You have to chop a part, it’s just one big sugar cube, right? 16:08
I live in South Louisiana. I have vaccum sealed a lot of dried items (beans, rice, potato flakes, etc). Now I need to store them. Of course we don’t have a basement. Would it be ok to store the vaccum sealed packs in a tote that is not clear and put that in a dark closet?
Hello, I’m starting to do this kind of food storage, so, no bay leaves or oxygen absorbers using this method? Same with different kinds of flour such as oats, almond, etc? For how long can I keep them in the bucket? Thank you so much!
I use mylar bags for long term storage with oxygen absorbers. I use food saver bags for things in the freezer. I don't measure out the flour , sugar etc I just fill the bags so there is little waste as the bags. are hard to find and not so cheap either. Also you don't need to make the food saver bags that big , your wasting the bags. Never use oxygen absorbers on sugar or salt no matter how you store them or they turn to bricks ! I make some in smaller bags measured out to barter with . Also put them together to be used for meals for a quick grab and go. Flour , sugar and yeast..bread and pizza dough. You can make pasta also. Save what you eat.
How long can you store flour like this? Could you also put flour in a mylar bag with an oxygen absorber? How long would that store? I was looking to see if you had a video on your channel on flour and mylar bags?
Salt and sugar last indefinitely anyway. So sealing them up will be helping to keep moisture out. White Flour, they say 3 to 5 years. I haven't had to find out yet.
Food saver bags are an expense. If your doing small packages, you could fit two in there because that a lot of bag for one small item. Remember, you can take out one and reseal it.
It is not necessary to vacuum seal salt and sugar. If kept dry, these have an unlimited shelf life. Moisture is what hardens them. If they harden, a grater or rasp make them usable again. I've successfully stored salt and sugar in clean, dry, tightly capped 2 liter soda bottles for more than 10 years. If you want to store in FoodSaver bags, just fill the bags and seal them without running the vacuum pump. Thus no risk of sugar or salt being drawn into the pump.
Hope this helps someone.
I would recommend double sealing your vacuum bags on both ends. I've had a few bags lose its seal over time. With this method, I haven't lost a seal in yrs. Just added protection 👍
Flour sugar salt cornmeal for me and family
Good to know. Makes sense.👍
Excellent point. Thank you!
I have had the same problem so now I double seal both ends of the bag!
Back In 2020 I bought a 20 pound bag of flour. That was when flour was tough to get. I used the paper bags when sealing my flour. I kept mine in the freezer and pulled bags out as I needed more. It was great I put 2 pounds in a bag. Plus you can reuse the bags for smaller items then.
Hi I'm just learning how to do all of this stuff. I used mylar bags to keep cereal good for quite some time. I'm praying I did it right. Ordered a vacuum sealer and it didn't have any suction so sent it back and I will get a different one. It's hard being disabled and trying to get situated on disability but I'm getting there. I got a portable wood stove last week and I'm happy to accomplish that. Have a gas one burner and a stack of butane to run them. Wish I was awake and started this a long time ago but any time is better than none. Thank you for all your information!!
Since the plastic vacuum bags are reusable, I would label the paper sack.
I have been air sealing for years and have used both jars .. food saver bags and the bags in bags or jar trick.. you can also put whole package into the bags.. I woukd like to sujest also that you can buy bakery bags in different sizes.. I use mylar bags primarily for flour.. oats.. istant potatoes and non food products.
Thank you!!! I've been trying to securely seal flour, like 100 pounds of it. I've inherited my mother-in-law's food saver, but I also have an impulse sealer as well as a vacuum chamber sealer. I think that the paper bag is going to solve a few problems. Again, thank you.
I am subscribed to your channel, and love your videos. You give a lot of great info. But when sealing these things, you said that if they felt better using an oxygen absorber to go ahead and use one. There are some things that you NEVER use an oxy absorber with, and Sugar is one of them. If you use an absorber, you will turn the sugar, ROCK HARD. You can check this info if you want. But people need to know that you Never use oxy absorbers with sugar. Salt, it just isn't necessary, and some have said that it will turn it hard also. I don't know if that is true or not, but it isn't needed.
Brilliant! I’m vacuum sealing mason jars while watching. I’ll have to try this!
I write on brown bag or at the very top of the food saver bag after sealing. So hen I cut the bag open I can wash it dry it and reuse the food saver bag. For pet food or seeds
I live alone so I prep like I cook. I put 1 of cup rice in a sandwich bag, cut across the fold and make two bags. With a piece of tape for the folded bottom of the cut top, I have a second bag. I put 3 to 4 of these bags in each vacuum bag. I do the same for all my dry foods. I take a pack out and move it to my working pantry. I reseal them after I remove 1 serving. This way my supplies go a long way.
Same here. It’s hard to have diversity in what we eat though. I’m not really picky so as long as it’s giving me the nutrients I need I’m ok with it
I have planned to put individual dried meals in mylar bags. As well as things like toothbrushes and toothpaste for my entire family. Dried milk and flour and seasalt and brown sugar will be stored in mylar bags too.
I use mylar for most items. I like that mylar restricts light exposure on the food. I also throw the flour in freezer for couple days and wait until returns to room temperature before sealing. Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝
Yes I freeze my flour first too. Do you freeze your rice and oats also?
Is freezing necassary? I do understand freezing rice ...but why flour?
@@Jimbo_Conn Flour can become infested with similar insects. As far as I know all grains are subject to some kind of weevil infestation. Sometimes they are already present when the grain is purchased from the store.
Did not think you could vacuum seal sugar it will turn hard as a brick
I put my info on the paper bag instead of the vac bag as I reuse the vac bags after opening them for the product use. Also I use a bit of tape to hold down the bag top as it's folded over. The sugar tends to be a 'brick' when you open up the bag.
Thanks Charles. I like mylar bags because it keeps the light out. Exposure to light can cause some items to deteriorate over time. I buy my herbs in bulk so Mylar is perfect for my herbs. That is what I like best to put in mylar. It's interesting that your vac sealer says to put the rough side down. Instructions on mine says rough side up. So it really pays to read instructions before using a new product. Much Love
I only used 5 mayor bags so far and put 20 pound of rice in them . I love them because you can store food a long time and save money on future food prices.
I love how mylar bags can keep my food for longer storage without going to waste , my favorite to keep in mylar is dried herbs .
New to food prepping. I've prepped 2×25 lb oats & 30 lbs of white rice in mylar bags & 5 gallon buckets so far. Not as hard as I thought it would be & cheaper than freeze dried foods (mountain house, my patriot, etc.). Evan a disabled person like me can do it. Give it a try, I think you'll enjoy it. God bless you all.
Thank you! I’ve got a ton of prepped stuff and recently bought a food saver at a discount store but it came with nothing as far as instructions. So simply making a bag was a revelation. I’ll be checking out more of your videos because it has all the attachments. I just don’t know how to use them. I literally have a thousand lunch bags I bought for another business. I’ll be busy! This is something I can have my teenagers do! :).
YOU ARE THE WINNER!!!! EMAIL ME YOUR ADDRESS AND I WILL SHIP DIRECT FROM AMAZON. CONGRADULATION....
Google the Food Saver and its number and you may be able to find the info online.
Congratulations!!!
The Myler bags is a good way to store food for your family in these times. When you are on a fixed income they really help preserve foods. I use them for a lot of things like sugar,flour,salt seasonings.
I was so nervous to use mylar bags. I don’t know why. But once I got started, it was so easy. I think putting several pounds of spaghetti in a gallon bag was my favorite. It was good to get the pasta out of a cardboard box, and into something that would last. It was also a space saver.
use bpa free food grade bags
Have never used them. But work love to try. Thanks for doing this video. Was getting ready to do this later today.
I put some of my fruit from my trees in mylar bage as well as vegetables from the garden. Mylar is a good addition to pressure canning, home freezer. Gives a feeling of security.
I like Mylar for the added protection of keeping light from deteriorating the food. If you're making bread by hand you'll need an extra 1/2 cup of flour for working with the dough. Good video, Charles.👍 Blessings.💙
Add extra flour for working with the dough...Never thought of that! Thanks 👍🏾
Since a bag of flour is good for regular shelf storage (in its factory packaging) for the length of time it takes you to use it up, why not just place the entire 5lb bag of flour into the food sealer bag?
I just leave the flour in the original bag and put it in the vaccume bag and then vaccume seal the whole thing. Store it in a plastic bucket. Easy as pie.
Im new to prepping so deciding to use the mylar was a little easier than other products. I like that you can seal them with a hot flat iron, so simple. I use them to store dry good like stuffing mix, some pastas and oats. I have the gallon bags and i have even cut them and made smaller bags, just seal up the sides. So easy.
How about writing on the paper bag and not on the clear bag... it shows through - just a bit easier when reusing the bag - tks
I use Mylar bags for everything from my freeze dried meals down to oatmeal and spices.
Mylar bags are great for so many things from pet food to ammo
ive seen many many videos on this subject but yours is the very best
I used them for first time a few months ago it was easier then i thought trying to do more prepping the way the world is looking like not good I got myself wife and three girls I gotta get ready for it's just a dads duty to be prepared
Thanks so much. Makes things so much easier!🙏❤️
Just ran across your videos and definitely information useful to me. Along with sealing the individual ingredients as you've shown [including brown sugar] I think what I'll do is make dry mixes for muffins, biscuits, quick breads, etc &include diections on what moist ingredients to add to the mix along with baking temperature and time. This is great! Thank you so much! I'll be checking out more of your videos. 😊
I love love love your intel. SO HELPFUL❤️
I just wanted to let you know that I tried this and I love it. Thank you for the tip
For the small volume dry goods such as 2 pounds of beans I use my small chamber vacuum this would work well for small flour amounts as well. No need to worry about the flour being vacuumed up as chamber doesn’t work that way
I am new to prepping. So far I have used moral bags for fruit that I have freeze dried. I have also taken a bag of baking soda with a hole poked in the bag and put into Mylar bag and vaccine sealed that. Will wait at least six months to open. I hope I did everything right
Good video , I've never used mylar bags before , thanks for sharing ,God bless !
I finally used my vaccum sealer. Thanks for the video. Stay safe.
I love mylar bags for the convenience you in storage. Put in my my life I like do you hydrated food and freeze dried food.
I have read that vacuum sealing salt or sugar they stay rock solid when you open the bags therefore hard to use. Have you experienced this problem?
Mylar bags worked great for storing my Hard white wheat berries. Then I put in bucket. Thanks for all you share!
Mylar keeps light out and is reuseable. Even if you want just a portion of the product, snip a corner, take some out, then reseal.
I am new to prepping and have found your videos so helpful. Thank you for creating them. I just received my first set of mylar bags yesterday and can’t wait to use them. Thanks for all the tips.
You are so welcome!
I store salt in its containers in a five gallon bucket with a small bag of rice that I make a slit in. Keeps it from becoming hard as a rock.
Why not vacuum seal the entire unopened bag of sugar?
That's what I did with 5 10# bags then placed them in totes.
Depends upon one's space and the size of your storage containers once you open the package. Makes things more manageable in the long run.
I’m an SHTF situation, you would not want others seeing or knowing you have that abundance of a product. Store in smaller portions.
You can if your bag of sugar will fit in your vacuum seal bag. You would just have a larger amount when you open it.
I've been told that oxygen absorbers will make your sugar get rock hard. Haven't tried them in sugar.
I do it according to the amount that most recipes would use if I were to open one. Bread would be 4 cups because you need flour to roll out your dough. And my recipe calls for 3 & 1/2 cups.. should their be no power to reseal what you don't use. I use a straw and ziplock bag. I do it to my spices, they last forever
Fabulous idea! Thank you
Good show. When I was young I had a daisy seal a meal. I absolutely loved it been many many years since then and my sister bought me another sealer I don't know what Brand it is never heard of it and I have bags that came with it and she bought a couple extra rolls of plastic for bags. I haven't tried it yet. Hopefully it's not in some other language that I can't decipher. Everybody tells me you can get food grade buckets from the pantry at Walmart but not our Walmart I've asked them a million times they reuse them they say my guess is they poor old grease in them and toss them. I don't know they just won't budge. I appreciate you showing everybody exactly how to do it you make it look simple maybe we put too much thought in it. Sorry I'm just now getting with you I have been sick with some sinus infection or something. 👍😄❤️✝️
The buckets sold a most home improvement stores have the #2 recycle symbol. This is a food grade bucket.
i vacuum seal my jars of dry goods, however, i installed a 2 micron fuel filter ( from tractor supply ) in the suction line. it has saved my vac pump in my rather expensive food saver.
I am brand new to prepping and storage so I have been really investigating what methods are best/common and how to carry out proper storage methods. I have learned that Mylar bags are a common and effective method of storage if done properly with the correct o2 absorber. Thank you for all of your knowledge. I really appreciate it.
Do not vacuum bag sugar. You will have a brick. He is doing it wrong. You can google “ how to store sugar for long term? “
I have never used Mylar bags.Everyone talks about them.I think would like to start though.Thanks a bunch.
Good information thanks
That's so awesome you're doing giveaways and whatnot. I think that's super generous of you, and even if I'm waaaay late you've got a sub from me. Thanks brother.
Hi Charles, yes I like the Mylar bags because they block out all light and gives it a tough protection. Ideal all the different types of beans, rice and pastas. I also seal the dry dog food in one gallon bags. The next items will be baking soda, corn starch and some coffee filters to keep them dry for long term.
I'm curious. I always worry aboit feeding my dogs (4labs 1shep) if things get hard. Have you had any trouble with dog food going rancid ? I mean it's full of oily stuff. How long have you been able to keep it?
From what I have seen and heard, mylar bags are good because you can open and reseal.
Mylar bags are great for dehydrated food, instant potatoes, anything dry, for sure. I think you can do pressure canning (MRE type) stuff with mylar bags, but I haven't tried it yet. Sounds like it would work.
Good idea
The biggest reason you need the paper sacks is to keep from plugging up the vacuum pump with the dust from what you are vacuum sealing. Besides the mess it can make.
Very interesting upload ✔
I'm looking forward tti getting some bags as I've never used then before. This is my first year prepping.. never to old to learn something new Thanks for your program
Smart!!!
So far, I’ve just used Mylar bags for seed storage. I need to invest in some bigger ones. Good luck, y’all!
Convenient bags for everything!
Hello do you have a idea for a budget friendly food saver and do you have to use buckets can you use totes buckets are scarce where i am thanks
What keeps the bugs from hatching out in the flour?
I have never used them,but love to try thank you
I like mylar bags for rice and dried beans, oatmeal and grains, So easy and quick:)
Thank you so much 💯
Thank you so much for this video. How easy!👏👏👏👏
If you don't have the lunch bags but have an abundance of zip lock bags, could you use the zip lock bags inside of vacuum sealed bags instead?
I like mylar bags for long time storage of these things, as they just work better. On occasion, the food saver type bags will leak over time. The mylar give a better seal, and keep more light out. If doing sugar with the mylar, I would just push as much air out as possible, then seal it with a hair straightening wand. They work great. Some people use an iron like you iron clothes with, but the hair rod is easier, and much cheaper than the rod they sell for the purpose of sealing mylar bags. NEVER use an oxy absorber with sugar, or you will turn it into a brick. Makes it rock hard. Most other things, if using mylar, I also put in the right size oxy absorber to go with the size of the bag. I also use canning jars and seal them with the jar sealers made for that.
When you vacuum seal sugar, it turns into a brick, when you open up the bag, isn’t it still hard as a brick? You have to chop a part, it’s just one big sugar cube, right? 16:08
Why not leave the salt in the container then vacuum seal?
I live in South Louisiana. I have vaccum sealed a lot of dried items (beans, rice, potato flakes, etc). Now I need to store them. Of course we don’t have a basement. Would it be ok to store the vaccum sealed packs in a tote that is not clear and put that in a dark closet?
Hello, I’m starting to do this kind of food storage, so, no bay leaves or oxygen absorbers using this method? Same with different kinds of flour such as oats, almond, etc? For how long can I keep them in the bucket? Thank you so much!
I use mylar bags for long term storage with oxygen absorbers.
I use food saver bags for things in the freezer. I don't measure out the flour , sugar etc I just fill the bags so there is little waste as the bags. are hard to find and not so cheap either. Also you don't need to make the food saver bags that big , your wasting the bags. Never use oxygen absorbers on sugar or salt no matter how you store them or they turn to bricks ! I make some in smaller bags measured out to barter with . Also put them together to be used for meals for a quick grab and go. Flour , sugar and yeast..bread and pizza dough. You can make pasta also. Save what you eat.
Also would this method work on dry milk?
I've just been trying to store up as much food as I can I've never tried the mylar bags but I'd love to try it would be wonderful if I can win this
Gamma lids are the absolute best thing ever for sealing up five gallon buckets.
I have a nesco deluxe sealer but I need a vacuum canister for jars. What would you recommend?
upgrade to chamber sealer after yrs of junk foodsavers I took the leap!
About how long will these 3 items last when packed like this, and in a bucket?
How long can you store flour like this? Could you also put flour in a mylar bag with an oxygen absorber? How long would that store? I was looking to see if you had a video on your channel on flour and mylar bags?
just getting started want to do flour ect...
Mylar would make lentils, rice last longer .
Also, anything already opened will NOT be wasted - because it can be preserved for long term
Hi
I have the Seal a Meal Food Saver
¿Is this ok or should I get a more expensive one?
So if i do this then put in sealed bucket can i store outside all year round? -35 winter into summer wont get condensation inside bags??
Can you vacumseal chocolate?
New subscriber! Thank you!
I have some whole and fat free powdered milk that is out of dat by 2 years. Are they still ok to store
long term the paper bag wont effect the food?
Hi Charles! Thank you for making this video! How long would the salt, sugar, and flour last vacuum-sealed?
Salt and sugar last indefinitely anyway. So sealing them up will be helping to keep moisture out. White Flour, they say 3 to 5 years. I haven't had to find out yet.
@@JayP-kd5rc I thought sugar and salt would harden. Just learning.😊
I like Mylar bags because I feel the substance inside has a longer shelf life.
How long does the products last packaged this way?
Would love video for meats and liqiid
Food saver bags are an expense. If your doing small packages, you could fit two in there because that a lot of bag for one small item. Remember, you can take out one and reseal it.
How long does flour last and the other items
You can buy non gmo corn , wheat, barley from your local feed and seed store for a fraction of the cost!
Thank you for sharing! Would love to win a vacuum sealer!
I never used Mylar bags. I guess I missed the contest!!