Food Storage: Long Term Best Methods
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Long term storage of dry foods. What options are available? Which ones are the best? In this video we will use several different commonly available easy methods to store the most popular long term storage food in the world of Preparedness!
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favorite way for rice is vacuum seal.....2nd best is simply putting rice in 2 liter bottle and SHAKE IT DOWN good and then screw on the cap(last year we opened a 2 liter stored for 8 years, cooked and ate the rice...it was just fine)
overall my go to storage is vacuum seal
Plastic bottles are not healthy due to PFAS.
Thanks you explained it do well another best in my book newbie to your channel but a subscriber for dure now
Thanks and welcome aboard!
Save your old single socks and cover your smaller jars to make them light protected
Good idea! But most of my socks have holes in them.
@@ChefPrepperI use every site that even if it has a hole I face that hole against another jar to keep the light out wherever you have your jars I put a black bag over the top of all my jars hanging over the end😊
When you put that sack over the jar and you cut the top around the lid take that piece of material that's left and tried to put it in between the jar and s o c k to block the hole😊
Asian have been storing rice for thousands of years. A few bugs aren't that much of a problem you just wash the rice.
Isn't it a flipping crying shame that we have to even entertain this in 2024?!!!!!! Beans, bullets and band-aids....it is what it is I guess.
I add a dry bay leaf too in the rice too.
I have had a real problem with oxgen absorbers. So I take empty clean dry 16 oz water bottles and fill them with the rice or whatever. Put the lid on very tight. Store them in cardboard boxes. Tape the box and label it .
Not everyone puts oxygen absorbers into their stored food and they seem to do well that way.
Les, if your rice is vaccum sealed when purchasex, why reseal it in a new container?
Thankyou so much. Good knowledge. You helped me to realize just how much work I have to do. I was very ill for a long time. Embarrassed to admit, I just left it all in many piles. Now it must all be sealed, sorted, and put away. ARGHHH!
My great-grandmother would jar everything put it on a shelf and then had a curtain in front of the whole shelf to bock the light. Everything was stored in the basement and we lived in Connecticut at the time so it was always nice and cool
I used my Food Saver to store some Rice and All Purpose Flour during covid. Years later, the rice is still good to eat. The flour is still good, too. I sift the flour before use and it tastes like I bought it at the store today.
Yes yes yes, the bugs are already in the rice and grains. It's the larvae inside that eventually hatches and you have tiny bugs. Freezing will kill them. OR just eat bugs. They will not harm you. In fact a little clean protein could be good for you in Starvation Times.
If my 10-year-old princess hears your advice (assumption), she’ll just go nuts!
I’m sure that there is no need to inform children about such “little things”... even if they have matured a little... they don’t know life and it shocks them🤮🤢
There is a saying: the less you know, the better you sleep. My option/ you know less better - you eat🫤
@@Sara45499 look it up, witch !!
Just use oxygen absorbers. Bugs can not live without oxygen.
Tube socks makes good cover for big jars😊
I really like your style- clear and concise directions/demonstrations and easy to digest information and explanations.It sets you apart from all other similar channels.Thank you ❤
You are welcome! And thank you. I am glad we are able help.
You can cut open the bag of rice at the top and place the bag of rice inside of a lunch paper bag fold it over once then then vacuum seal in a foodsaver bag this will take care of the light issue, you can store the rice then in a food grade bucket, I also do sugar and flour this way also. I also store rice and beans and pasta in 2 liter bottles with oxygen obsorber in each. I also really like storing dry goods in mason jars vacumm sealed. as well a dried medicinal herbs the same way in jars.
Good ideas! All of them!
If I have to repackage anything it’s in a 1 gallon or 1 Quart Mylar bag then toss it in a 5 gallon bucket to make it rodent proof I have had 5 gallon buckets since Y2K nothing has been chewed on as of
Todays date.
No need to fix what ain't broken.
Thanks for watching and sharing your storage method.
Thank You Les.
I am captivated by your presentations.
You make the information so very easy to understand and apply.
Also, I do not know where you are from. You have the best accent. Could listen to you talk all day. My guess is Arkansas.
My best friends (I call family,) were all from Arkansas. I lived in Mississippi for a few years. And Granddad & relatives were from Shreveport.
Anyway, none of my business
I'm late to the party. Reusing the plastic containers; the only thing different of what Chef Prepper is to tape the lids & label the date & information.
Can the plastic bottles and jars be painted to keep light out?
I haven't done that. I suppose it could work.
I store mine in Prego spaghetti sauce glass jars and store in a dark cupboard.
Your a great guy but dude i cant watch ya even in your eyes nose mouth omg dad twin nope bye bye dads long gone now im gost lol.😂❤
I use a lot of vacuum sealing on things like rice.
Subbed, I have also done most of your methods. My new favorite is to order in #10 cans.
Welcome to our channel! And thank you for watching!
#10 cans are a great choice.
😂😂. I do all of those ways 👍🏼
Great information as usual.
Super close to 25k congrats and thanks for the awesome content
You are welcome! And thank you.
great video mate , will send folks to see hows its done , better than me trying to explain
Thanks 👍
I have 25 pounds of rice in the freezer for the second time.I put the rice and beans in the freezer for roughly a week,then remove it for several days and after that put it back for a week or so, remove it put it in plates or other containers and allow it all to dry for a day or two and then repackage it all in one of your methods.The reason is the first freezing makes the bugs if any larva is present think it winter, taking the food out gives the larva the thought that it's spring time, the second time in the freezer then kills any hatched larva/bugs,I have had no issues with the food going south.New to preparedness, so kinda still learning but I have done everything you've mentioned except the mylar bags, simply because I haven't gotten around to it.I picked up a used sun oven yesterday from marketplace for a cool 80 dollars .☮️ Central Texas 🇺🇸
Good idea. You are not leaving anything to chance. Good job!
Good deal on the sun oven too!
@@ChefPrepper Dig your channel, I just got my food saver vacuum lids in,a pH tester and a package of 700cc oxygen absorbers ☮️
I like vac seal too..
yesterday I picked up a couple pounds of white rice to repack, I'll use a mylar bag and oxygen absorbers then drop that in a bucket
That will work.
Great video, I use a 2 liter soda bottles for my Long grain white rice. You can get around 4.75 lbs of rice in each bottle. I have in the past tried using the 1 gallon water bottle that you showed when the opaque clear cap ... They cracked
Hello Sentry,
Thanks for the heads up. I will keep check on such bottles.
I punch a couple of small holes in the pre-packaged rice so that all the air is vacuumed out otherwise I can get a soft bag even after the machine shuts off. Great videos, Frank
You're welcome and thank you for watching and sharing.
Excellent video, thank you. Question, does the vacuum sealer shown in the video accept the large 50-foot rolls of plastic?
You are welcome and thank you.
No it won't hold a roll that big.
I just vacum seal white rice in 1 cup or 2 cup bags and put them in 5 gallon bucket . No issues for over 40 years . Brown rice get sealed up the same way , but i put brown rice in freezer .
Beans and grains , I vacum seal in measurement and put in buckets .
grain mills store beans and grains in open top bins for up to 30 years before selling .,
I never needed to freeze my grains. Ive used 02 removal successfully for years.
Yeah, me too.
I personally use bpa free buckets and use alternating layers of rice and diatomaceous earth. I usually freeze it for 3 days before I store it. But I take it out of the freezer and let it dry well before I put it in buckets. So far its done me right for two years and counting.
Hope your sabbath was pleasant. Do you have any vids on what you do with supplies during the feast of unleavened bread, like do you store them separately so that it’s easy to remove them? Thanks
Hello Rainyskye,
My answer might not be what you have heard before.
We get rid of all leavened bread before Passover.
If we are using sourdough starter we simply start a new batch after unleavened bread.
We don't get rid of baking soda, baking powder or even packs of yeast as these things are not leavened bread.
I believed the commandment is about leavened bread, natural leavening (sourdough starter).
Not saying I am right or that other people should do the same, just what we do.
I will be glad to talk with you more through email if you want.
@@ChefPrepper 2 f’s at gmail right?
Hi, Les! My favorite would be snipping a corner off the original 1- or 2-pound bag and placing that cut bag in a mylar bag with an oxygen absorber before placing the filled mylar bag into a food grade plastic bucket. I'd like to keep the original bag as padding for the rice in the mylar bag. I assume the cut is to release "air" from the original bag, thus allowing the absorber access to the rice. I suppose food placed in mylar bags could be stored in regular plastic buckets because the food would be protected from direct contact with the basic plastic bucket.
I've got some empty plastic water buckets I'd like to reuse for storage. I need to make sure they have NO water left in them.
Thanks, Les, for your detailed explanations. Best wishes to you and yours!
It is more of an expense but I use Gamma easy resealable lids for five gallon buckets, they just unscrew to open and close. The ones from Amazon are too expensive, I have a more local source. Inside the buckets I put Mylar bags sealed in a vacuum sealer that is far superior to a regular home type food sealer.
Hello Jamesnelson,
Sounds like you have a good system.
@@ChefPrepper Many years of trying and learning with many false steps and where I am is the result of all of that. I have a lot of home dehydrated food, commercial and home canned food and some commercial dehydrated but none of the survival meals. I now only eat animal products for health reasons and that has caused me revamp what I store. I do have a lot of beans and rice but that is for my neighbors in time of need and not me.
I noticed a plastic smell from the vacuum sealer bags. Not too bad... have you done a video on granola bars and cereals?
Monitor the humidity in your home daily..Buy a $25 hydrometer.
I always put my absorbers in before filling.
A lot of folks do and probably makes re-packaging a little easier. For me, I sometimes fill containers over a period of time and then do all the sealing at one time which might be a couple or so days later, especially if I am using 5 gallon buckets.
I use glass jars, some of which used to hold coffee. But all have seals on them. Some are killner jars.
I used the jars bags put them in totes what's a lot of bay leaves in tote in closet no room for buckets i wish 😊
I do like the quart Jar idea easy way to seal and vacuum proof the contents
Thank you for doing this for us.
Good stuff!
Vaccum seal and glass jar
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