I didn't have a mother teach me these skills,bi had to learn on my own; bought a box of Bisquik in mid 80's, got bugs, and figured out to freeze everything for baking is the best way to prevent infestation!! Thank you for your honest, clean, no swearing or taking God's name in vain; you are showing and teaching by example many things more than just kitchen skills, and I am grateful for you!!!!
I learned to dry can from this video a few years ago and it has worked for me ever since. A tip for those who do not have a freezer - get your flour, etc. in the winter time. Leave it outside in a critter and weather safe place and let it freeze for a week or so before canning. Some people will put the lids on loosely before putting in the oven. I have found that putting the jars in the oven with no lids on will let moisture escape much better.
Jackie, I just found this out today. I have moisture in my flour. Can I re-can it or should I throw it out? I also didn't hear any pings today except one.
Wow. I didn't know you could can flour and I'm 66 yrs.old. I've been gardening, canning, freezing and dehydrating since I got married at the age of 17. I raised 2 children and I'm now retired. With all that's going on in our world today I still do a great deal of prepping. The less I get out and around people with this virus the safer I feel. So it's important that I have a well stocked pantry. You can rest assure that I will be adding this to my prepping. Thanks for the video
Like you, only I am 77 years old, and never knew any of this!! So glad to have this information. I have been canning all my life. They need to bring Home Ec back in the schools and teach this. Thank you.
@@pamhall8499 I so agree with you Pam about bringing back home economics. What were people thinking taking away shop and small mechanics and home economics classes in high schools? Young people need to know the basic things when they leave the nest.
I'm learning so much from you. I was shocked when I realized that rice, pasta, flour, etc., that I was bringing home from the store had "critter" eggs in it. All of it has the potential to get buggy. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
The food banks do know about getting critters in the dried foods and will examine them for that. However they are clueless on the freezer method to prevent the problem in the first place.
I no longer preserve it this way. I put the flour in the freezer for a week or so..then bring it out..let it come to room temp...and jar it up. Works much better for the flour.
Bev, this is great. I used five gallon buckets with oxygen absorbers. I will be doing this style next. Thanks soooooo much. Jerry of Pine Meadows Hobby Farm
Oh my goodness! YOUR amazing I love what you come up with!!! I LOVE the flour in the jars that last longer I have always just put in fridge but wow this is even better do you have any ideas on yeast? How to keep it longer to? I'm so thankful to pinterest that they found you for my post!! Keep up the wonderful work!! You are such sunshine to us who love to do stuff like this
@@joannwilden5417 from one JoAnn to another. Keep your yeast in your freezer. I'm still using mine it's seven years old. It's starting to get a little slow now so I add a little extra. I think that five years in the freezer should be the limit.
Thanks for this video! Yeah well it is now 2020 and Co Vid19 is raging and there is NO Bread in supermarkets. I found flour at Sam's today and will heed your advice. Even yeast is nowhere to be found. I bought some in bulk last year to keep in the fridge and now I am sharing with neighbors so they can make their bread. God help us all.
I made a sourdough starter in April 2020 for the same reason-no yeast in stores or online. I keep that starter in the freezer between uses. Troubled times made me get a bit creative. Me and a lot of other Americans did the sourdough-bread thing. I used bread machine, BTW, & the sourdough bread tasted good!
@@notbuiltforthat8686 Yes, that is the way I do it. I have done it for years. I have never had any problems with it at all. I have NEVER canned any of it. Just freeze for a week or two .
@@notbuiltforthat8686 I just leave it in the container that it came in. When I was growing up , Dad bought flour 200 # at a time. We never did have bugs in any of it. It is best to put Corn Meal in the freezer for a week or 2. Then take it out & leave it in the bag that it came in. I'm 74 & I have been doing this for many years and I Haven't had any trouble keeping it.
Thank you for showing the "white lid with red gaskets". I was only aware of the old ones my 80 yr old grandmother used. I will be looking for these to do any further dry canning. Video was excellent, sharp and consise.
Love that you show us all the different ways to can and especially adding the dry canning. I have been vacuum sealing my dry items including bulk spices I get but not sure how long these will remain shelf stable so I am experimenting I guess LOL Much love and blessings to you and pappa!! xoxo
Thank you Lovely lady!❤ I just knew there was a way to prepare flour to store for at least a couple of years so I do appreciate you technique for CANNING Flour. God bless you Lovely. 🙏❤️
As a family we did a lot of canning when us kids were growing up, (I’m 59 now), but never even heard of canning flour! We had two large deep freezers we kept the extras in; flour, rice,oatmeal, etc.
Bev, ouch, I hope you know that rinsing your burns with milk will take out the sting and sooth it when you first get a burn, then later use oatmeal soap for washing your hands. The oatmeal soap was the only thing I could bath with for more than six months with my full body burns. It really works. Also if blister is raised or seeping and extremely painful, I soaked my wash cloth and squeezed to let the soap drop above and gently wash over the burns without touching them, then applied aloe or first aid ointment to prevent infection. Very important to prevent infection, your immune system is already compromised. Great idea for saving flour, next time, best wait for papa to help. Hugs
I always like watching your videos. Thank you for everything you share. When we were prepping we would open up the top of our bags of flour a little bit then vacuum seal them . They were sealed so good they were like a brick. Then we stored them in a container. Used one 4 years later and fresh as new. We quit prepping and gave all our food away. I do miss it though , not because I feel we need the food , but I really enjoyed doing it. It is a lot of fun to do.
This is an older post but may I ask exactly how you vacuum sealed the bags? Were they paper or plastic? Did you put the bags inside another bag to vacuum seal? Thank you for responding.
I love oven canning flour, I have a jar from 2015 i just opened. When processed correctly its perfectly fine. Safer to keep the flour in a jar then in the paper bag they come in.
yes, unles you have a vacumsealed storage room.. i grew up in the 60s-70s in an old house in northern norway... every winter we had to put mouse traps in our food storage,, and usualy we catched a lot of mouse there. hehe so yes my mother usualy canned modt of the food that should last, becouse mouse ate thru most of paper-plastic and so on.
@@robertwatkins4267 im not sure the real temperature in the pressure cooker she used weights on to can say meat. but for dry canning she used 105-110Celsius to make sure there was no moisture left in pasta-rice-floor- and so on... also hot enough to kill most bacterias.... only important thing to remember:::: DONT PUT A COLD WET GLASS DIRECTLY IN TO A HOT OVEN, it will somtimes crack.. my mother had a shelf over the wood stove where the glasses usualy got PREHEATED. hehe but most canning jars dont crack if they are around room temperature and get put in to a 110C. oven
First, thank you for the video, it is really good, great tips. And may I suggest to you that next time you burn your skin during canning or any other activity using heat do not apply anything to it, no cold water, no ice, nothing, but . . . Just wrap the affected area with clingy plastic wrap in a way that no air or oxygen comes through to the burned area. Leave it for fifteen minutes, then remove the plastic for a few minutes, then do it again. Repeat the process as needed until the burn hurts no more. That’s all you need to do. If you have no plastic wrap you may use aluminum foil the same way, cutting off the oxygen supply to the combustion in your skin. That’s how a fire or a combustion is put out, by cutting off the oxygen supply to it. But, remember, with aluminum foil, it being a metal, You must remove it every five minutes and let it cool off because it will get hot from heat transferred to it from the burned or hot skin. Try it next time, and if you are happy with it, pass it along. You may do a video on it. It is recommended to always have clingy plastic wrap and or aluminum foil in the home and in the car for first aid when skin is burned accidentally.
Thank you for sharing this in a sorrowful time of need. This is such a grate help as I have a ton of flour and was worried it would go bad. God bless you❤
I have in the past of in canned rice and dried beings peas and lentils and according to the directions of I read they are good for 20 years. I figure I have about 15 more years to go on them. Have never camed flour before but I will be doing it now. Thank you so much for the lesson and I hope you hand is feeling better.
Great video. I just learned how to dry can this past summer with rice, oatmeal, kidneys beans, sugar, salt. Just thought I'd better double check how to do flour and its the exact same method as I seen on another video. Again great job. Thank you.
@@malapoyo over gloves are so awsome, I also keep an extra pair for camping. They work so well that we have use them to move our burn pit when it was blazing hot with fire in it. I think that they work better than welders gloves
I'm so sorry that you burned your hand I've done that before too. My son told me to put prepared yellow mustard on the burn, so I did and immediately the pain left, after a while rinse it off. Also gardening gloves work great for "hot pads". I use the ones with the little rubber nubs all over because they grip the jars so well and I slip brown jersey gloves into them for extra layer of protection. Love your videos.
I just found your channel and I'm so glad I did! I grew up with my grandmothers and my own mother canning. I canned some when I was younger. I'm just starting to get back into it. I never thought to can flour! Thank you so much for sharing! You are very engaging and your videos are very helpful. Keep up the great job!
I saw in one of your other videos that you do a mix of white flour and wheat flour. Have you found an easy way to mix large batches of the two flours for canning? Also, lavender essential oil is excellent for burns. Stops the burning within a minute and usually the burn is almost invisible the next day! Love your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Just flicked on to your channel, very informative . Just bought 20 kg bags of plain , self-raising,whole meal& strong flour. I'll be popping them in freezer first . I stopped buying large quantities as I had the ''BUG" problem years ago but with the current empty shelves 😍Thank you . Stay Safe⭐️
Thanks for the great videos! I love how you explain things as you're working! A friend of mine canned cakes in the oven.........until he had a mishap and some jars exploded making a huge, huge chocolate mess! He said his days of canning cake was over! lol
Unfortunately, today's jars are not as strong as many of those in the past. It is wise to carefully inspect jars before using them. A few years ago I bought a dozen Ball jars. Ten were defective! I have canned over 20 years and never had a defective jar. I called Ball. They wanted to give me coupons! I said, "You're kidding me!" I don't want coupons, I want solid usable jars! Moral of story: Beware!
I never knew I could do this in the Times we R in now with this virus I was I'm sure how best to keep flour for long term stumbled across this today I will try this so thank u
4 years, that's very good! Ouch, I've bumped the element and the edge of the stove. Painful. Great job with all the flour. I need shelving before I am able to can so much. Makes me so jealous to see shelves of canned goods. I have space, just no shelving for it. This house lacks shelves big time. 🌾 Merry meet, merry part & meet again 🌿
I'm on my second 25# bag of flour. I won't get caught again looking for flour or bread on the shelves in a pandemic. Thanks for this info, before I had know idea and I'm 65.
Great. You can do beans, noodles, crackers, rice, oats , just to name a few including all the dehydrated foods that you can make yourself. You could put sugar and salt in Quart jars, but I never bother because salt and sugar may get hard but it can be hammered to break pieces off if needed. You gotta have salt....It can be used in an emergency to preserve meat without electricity and tan/preserve skins and fur including many other uses. We been doing it for a while and it was nice to sit back knowing that we had enough while others went to stores panicking. For a while we gave away quarts of rice and other things to friends and family while all this was going on. We have a revolving pantry.....older things come from the pantry and the pantry becomes our shopping center and new stuff goes into the pantry when we go shopping.
Just a tip for those who are looking for flour and sugar during a shortage. Go to the richest part of town and go into their high end grocery stores. You'll find all sorts of sugar, flour, pasta etc. that all the regular stores are of out. Guess the rich don't intend to cook anything from scratch when the SHTF. lol Any time I can't find something at the regular grocery stores, I always find it in the rich neighborhood stores. lol
I'm really glad PaPa was there to help get those filled jars into the oven!!! Whew, what a job!! I have no one here but the dos and since they don't have thumbs ... they're only there for moral support! LOL Those filled jars are HEAVY!!!
Thank you for this video. I finally tried this and pulled out my first gallon jar to use the all purpose flour. The flour was clumped. I sifted the flour and it looks fine. But my question to you is, do you think I did something wrong to caused the flour to clump? If this is normal, then I’m okay with this as I have flour in my pantry that will last years. I salute you and your desire to educate.
Bev, I'm hoping that you will do a short video on "using" oven canned flour. I think it would be educational as some people will freak out when it appears and feels "hard" when they open the jar! LOL Thanks for all you do for us!!
And that will be me I just did my oven canned flour, put it away but decided to keep one jar on hand, and I was shocked 😳 when I realized it was hard like a rock I thought I did it wrong
That is so cool. I keep my flour in the freezer also, I learnt this the hard way after finding weevils in the flour when I left it out in the pantry. Never again.
my pleasure like I said freeze it first for a few days the bigger the bag the longer you need to freeze it and then let it come up to room temperature for a day before canning it or your flower will lumpy in the jars for moisture
Thanks Bev! I miss having a big oven. I've been vacuum sealing my flour after freezing and bringing it back to room temp. BTW Egg white is the best thing to put on burns. Much Love
annette, I don't have enough oven canning experience to answer that. I know mice can get into the vacuum bags unless you keep them in glass, metal, or other mouse proof storage.
jan Penland thank you. You're right about the mice. Oh wow I need to go check on the ones I've sealed life that. Lol I have a jar sealer that was in the food saver machine was wondering if that would work instead. Thank you. ☺
I've had mice chew into the 5 gallon buckets but not through the large mylar bags lining the bucket. They nibbled on the mylar but luckily didn't get through it.They ate about half of the vacuum sealed grain that was in the unlined bucket. They also got into my candles and soap and ate them too. I mostly use vacuum sealed glass for storage now although I do still use the vacuum bags when I run out of large glass jars. I also have cats now to control the vermin. If I see signs of mice I don't feed the cats.
My flour is in the oven as I type this. 5lb of flour fit (2) 1/2 gal jars. So with that in mind, a qt would be 1.25 lbs. (disclaimer: depends also on how much you tap it down and what headspace you have. you may come up a little bit short) I tapped pretty hard.
Hi, loved the way you explain things. I've canned before but I'm actually really getting into doing it this year. I was wondering. Is there a way to easily can sugar ? I also want to try to can cooked meat but am afraid to. Thank you for any help.
I subscribed, love how you explain while performing the task. I am new to storing foods and very curious about canning - jarring. Could you do this technic with cereal like cornflakes or captain crunch or could you vacuum seal?
I'm not sure but I know some people do it with cookies so you can try. Try a small batch and see if it works by doing it and then when it cools opening it to see if you got a good seal and if the cereal is still edible
Wow, I've never heard of canning flour. My dad can a lot of stuff but never that. My dad taught me how to can. He also taught me how to make wine and he taught me how to make jelly and jam. Well I don't make wine but occasionally I do make the jelly or jam. I have tried my hand and making cheese.
Great video; Thank You!!! Can I dry can cake mixes, pancake, waffle mixes, sugar, and brown rice. Thanks new subscriber. I may not have any tatoo's but still enjoy looking at others. Don't let people upset you; we are very grateful for the time and effort you put into making these self-help videos. God Bless...
It is my understanding that as long as the mixes do not have any ingredients with oil you can dry can them. They go rancid if they have oil in them. It is also my understanding that you should never store your canned good with the rings on them nor should you store them stacked right on top of each other. The reason for that is if they come unsealed for some reason you would never know untill it is to late. You should do a check of your canned goods every so often to make sure they are still sealed and in good condition. If you have wet canned, tomatoes, green beans, soup ect, it is especially important not to leave the rings on and not to stack the jars right on top of each other for the same reason, botulism can form and make you very sick or even kill you. This is a good video explaining the reasons for not stacking or leaving the rings on: th-cam.com/video/iQi8kab8WxA/w-d-xo.html Sharing is caring, it could save a life. Share this info with family and friends who can.
cookiemama4 you can stack them in the boxes. Personally, I always leave the rings on my jars. I like the way they look and I feel better when the edge of the lid is protected from anything possibly getting hooked on it and messing with the seal. If a jar lid just comes right off then it wasn’t sealed and I don’t use it. I also tap the lids before I use them or just to check them.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! ♡♡ I'm very appreciative! I have some questions, will I need to use all the flour after opening right away or is there even a time frame or will it still stay fresh ?
I just open them up..put it through the food processor with the S blade ( it can be lyumpy) then dump it into my flour cannister! Use up within a month
I know you didn't ask me but well I got my half gallon jars from Walmart and I ordered online from the Fleet Company ( kind of like a Tractor Supply ) good price . Hope this helps , Blessing's , Linda
everything is possible ofcourse,but if you keep full grains cool and at a dark place, it will last for "ages"! ever heard of the Kamut-grains that were found in a more than 3000 year old Pyramide in Egypt?some seeds were taken by an US-pilot;he planted it and brought this as a "new" grain on the market but nobody wanted it....decennia later,in the ninety's it became a well known wheat!
I am uncomfortable with putting flour into hot jars, it changes the flour. I would rather, freeze it, vacuum seal it and store it in a cool place. Flour from the store's shelf life is 6 mos to a year.
So wonderful! I love your video. And I bet you are now counting your blessings with all your wonderful flour through this corona virus lockdown. There is no flour in our stores or online. There are only a few bags here and there of rice flour and coconut flour at the grocery stores 😓 Bless you and your family. We are in Southern California.
I didn't have a mother teach me these skills,bi had to learn on my own; bought a box of Bisquik in mid 80's, got bugs, and figured out to freeze everything for baking is the best way to prevent infestation!! Thank you for your honest, clean, no swearing or taking God's name in vain; you are showing and teaching by example many things more than just kitchen skills, and I am grateful for you!!!!
Kay Spencer Thank you for the info.
Kay Spencer, Yes!! I thank all of you for this wonderful information!
Will this work for gluten free flours?
Amen
How would you can sweet potatoes? Do you just put water over them or make a simple syrup?
What a sweet woman she is. God bless her and all her hard work.
Why Thank you Honey!
I learned to dry can from this video a few years ago and it has worked for me ever since. A tip for those who do not have a freezer - get your flour, etc. in the winter time. Leave it outside in a critter and weather safe place and let it freeze for a week or so before canning. Some people will put the lids on loosely before putting in the oven. I have found that putting the jars in the oven with no lids on will let moisture escape much better.
Jackie, I just found this out today. I have moisture in my flour. Can I re-can it or should I throw it out? I also didn't hear any pings today except one.
Wow. I didn't know you could can flour and I'm 66 yrs.old. I've been gardening, canning, freezing and dehydrating since I got married at the age of 17. I raised 2 children and I'm now retired. With all that's going on in our world today I still do a great deal of prepping. The less I get out and around people with this virus the safer I feel. So it's important that I have a well stocked pantry. You can rest assure that I will be adding this to my prepping. Thanks for the video
Like you, only I am 77 years old, and never knew any of this!! So glad to have this information. I have been canning all my life. They need to bring Home Ec back in the schools and teach this. Thank you.
@@pamhall8499 I so agree with you Pam about bringing back home economics. What were people thinking taking away shop and small mechanics and home economics classes in high schools? Young people need to know the basic things when they leave the nest.
Freezing the flour first is so smart! I just read that that is what the military does when they are getting their dry goods ready for storage.
Yep, we even store our rice and pasta in the freezer. Take it out when you want to cook it.
I am learning so much from you! You are a great teacher... straight to the point, no nonsense!
Your my kind of teacher.
I'm learning so much from you. I was shocked when I realized that rice, pasta, flour, etc., that I was bringing home from the store had "critter" eggs in it. All of it has the potential to get buggy. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Many food products have critter eggs or parts of the critter in it..
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Yeah. Govt allows percentage
The food banks do know about getting critters in the dried foods and will examine them for that. However they are clueless on the freezer method to prevent the problem in the first place.
@@gretelhance Oh they allow a loooooot, too much. And don't allow what's good...
Yep
I love how you ask a question and then answer it.
FINALLY! Had to wade through a lot of poorly-done videos before I found this one on how to can/preserve flour! Thanks!
That is because I am the first to have ever done it on TH-cam...the older one was trial and error.
Thank you for teaching me this skill! Great video. Blessings and health to your family.
I no longer preserve it this way. I put the flour in the freezer for a week or so..then bring it out..let it come to room temp...and jar it up. Works much better for the flour.
Bev, this is great. I used five gallon buckets with oxygen absorbers. I will be doing this style next. Thanks soooooo much.
Jerry of Pine Meadows Hobby Farm
Pine : I use mylar and oxygen - It is safe ok yes?
@@fullofhope2222 I did place them in Mylar as well.
Thanks for putting yourself out there and sharing what has worked for you. Appreciate your tips and tricks. Keep up the great informative videos.
Oh my goodness! YOUR amazing I love what you come up with!!! I LOVE the flour in the jars that last longer I have always just put in fridge but wow this is even better do you have any ideas on yeast? How to keep it longer to? I'm so thankful to pinterest that they found you for my post!! Keep up the wonderful work!! You are such sunshine to us who love to do stuff like this
@@joannwilden5417 from one JoAnn to another. Keep your yeast in your freezer. I'm still using mine it's seven years old. It's starting to get a little slow now so I add a little extra. I think that five years in the freezer should be the limit.
Thanks for this video! Yeah well it is now 2020 and Co Vid19 is raging and there is NO Bread in supermarkets. I found flour at Sam's today and will heed your advice. Even yeast is nowhere to be found. I bought some in bulk last year to keep in the fridge and now I am sharing with neighbors so they can make their bread. God help us all.
There are videos on harvesting wild yeast. When in need, improvise.
I made a sourdough starter in April 2020 for the same reason-no yeast in stores or online. I keep that starter in the freezer between uses. Troubled times made me get a bit creative. Me and a lot of other Americans did the sourdough-bread thing. I used bread machine, BTW, & the sourdough bread tasted good!
We always freeze our flour, cornmeal and rolled oats too. Have never had a problem with bugs after that.
Do you just place the entire bags in the freezer as is?
@@notbuiltforthat8686 Yes, that is the way I do it. I have done it for years. I have never had any problems with it at all. I have NEVER canned any of it. Just freeze for a week or two .
@@johnyoung9874 Wow. Thanks. I would like to know what you store it in after
@@notbuiltforthat8686 I just leave it in the container that it came in. When I was growing up , Dad bought flour 200 # at a time. We never did have bugs in any of it.
It is best to put Corn Meal in the freezer for a week or 2. Then take it out & leave it in the bag that it came in. I'm 74 & I have been doing this for many years and I Haven't had any trouble keeping it.
@@johnyoung9874 after freezing do you let it in a fresh air?
Love the fact that you take time to educate others I'm watching from Victoria Australia, i just realised I need a freezer 👍🏻
Thank you for showing the "white lid with red gaskets". I was only aware of the old ones my 80 yr old grandmother used. I will be looking for these to do any further dry canning. Video was excellent, sharp and consise.
I am glad you found it useful?
I didn't know we could do this, thank you for sharing!
I’m really liking this channel and your tips. With the economy the way it is right now is the time to start.
Love that you show us all the different ways to can and especially adding the dry canning. I have been vacuum sealing my dry items including bulk spices I get but not sure how long these will remain shelf stable so I am experimenting I guess LOL Much love and blessings to you and pappa!! xoxo
They will last for years
Thank you Lovely lady!❤ I just knew there was a way to prepare flour to store for at least a couple of years so I do appreciate you technique for CANNING Flour. God bless you Lovely. 🙏❤️
As a family we did a lot of canning when us kids were growing up, (I’m 59 now), but never even heard of canning flour! We had two large deep freezers we kept the extras in; flour, rice,oatmeal, etc.
Lol, my Dad cans homemade bread in jars!
Bev, ouch, I hope you know that rinsing your burns with milk will take out the sting and sooth it when you first get a burn, then later use oatmeal soap for washing your hands. The oatmeal soap was the only thing I could bath with for more than six months with my full body burns. It really works. Also if blister is raised or seeping and extremely painful, I soaked my wash cloth and squeezed to let the soap drop above and gently wash over the burns without touching them, then applied aloe or first aid ointment to prevent infection. Very important to prevent infection, your immune system is already compromised. Great idea for saving flour, next time, best wait for papa to help. Hugs
I always like watching your videos. Thank you for everything you share. When we were prepping we would open up the top of our bags of flour a little bit then vacuum seal them . They were sealed so good they were like a brick. Then we stored them in a container. Used one 4 years later and fresh as new. We quit prepping and gave all our food away. I do miss it though , not because I feel we need the food , but I really enjoyed doing it. It is a lot of fun to do.
This is an older post but may I ask exactly how you vacuum sealed the bags? Were they paper or plastic? Did you put the bags inside another bag to vacuum seal?
Thank you for responding.
I'd rather watch your videos over other similar ones because you don't babble, you cut out unnecessary parts, and you are freaking entertaining!
I love oven canning flour, I have a jar from 2015 i just opened. When processed correctly its perfectly fine. Safer to keep the flour in a jar then in the paper bag they come in.
yes, unles you have a vacumsealed storage room.. i grew up in the 60s-70s in an old house in northern norway... every winter we had to put mouse traps in our food storage,, and usualy we catched a lot of mouse there. hehe
so yes my mother usualy canned modt of the food that should last, becouse mouse ate thru most of paper-plastic and so on.
What temp do you set the oven at?
@@robertwatkins4267 im not sure the real temperature in the pressure cooker she used weights on to can say meat. but for dry canning she used 105-110Celsius to make sure there was no moisture left in pasta-rice-floor- and so on... also hot enough to kill most bacterias.... only important thing to remember:::: DONT PUT A COLD WET GLASS DIRECTLY IN TO A HOT OVEN, it will somtimes crack..
my mother had a shelf over the wood stove where the glasses usualy got PREHEATED. hehe
but most canning jars dont crack if they are around room temperature and get put in to a 110C. oven
samkom33 thank you very much, 😊
@@robertwatkins4267 She said in the first couple of minutes 215 F (101 C)- a little higher than the boiling point of water.
Thank you for the video.
I did 50lbs all purpose flour. It took exactly 18 one half gallon jars.
Thank you for this video. I never knew you could can flour. I am going to do this.😃👍🏼
First, thank you for the video, it is really good, great tips.
And may I suggest to you that next time you burn your skin during canning or any other activity using heat do not apply anything to it, no cold water, no ice, nothing, but . . .
Just wrap the affected area with clingy plastic wrap in a way that no air or oxygen comes through to the burned area. Leave it for fifteen minutes, then remove the plastic for a few minutes, then do it again. Repeat the process as needed until the burn hurts no more. That’s all you need to do. If you have no plastic wrap you may use aluminum foil the same way, cutting off the oxygen supply to the combustion in your skin. That’s how a fire or a combustion is put out, by cutting off the oxygen supply to it. But, remember, with aluminum foil, it being a metal, You must remove it every five minutes and let it cool off because it will get hot from heat transferred to it from the burned or hot skin. Try it next time, and if you are happy with it, pass it along. You may do a video on it. It is recommended to always have clingy plastic wrap and or aluminum foil in the home and in the car for first aid when skin is burned accidentally.
Thank you for sharing this in a sorrowful time of need. This is such a grate help as I have a ton of flour and was worried it would go bad. God bless you❤
Canning flour…WHO KNEW?! You did, of course❣️☺️😂 You never cease to amaze me❣️🙏💋💖🦋
Ouchy on your burn!!!! I have done that so I know the feeling! Thanks for this video. I did it a few years ago and it works!
I have in the past of in canned rice and dried beings peas and lentils and according to the directions of I read they are good for 20 years. I figure I have about 15 more years to go on them. Have never camed flour before but I will be doing it now. Thank you so much for the lesson and I hope you hand is feeling better.
I have learned some valuable lessons from you. Greatly appreciate it. Ty.
Before watching your video, I was totally ignorant of canning methods. Now, I'm much less ignorant. Great information. Thank You.
My Pleasure!
You are lovely. Thank you for sharing your information. ❤
Great video. I just learned how to dry can this past summer with rice, oatmeal, kidneys beans, sugar, salt. Just thought I'd better double check how to do flour and its the exact same method as I seen on another video. Again great job. Thank you.
May I recommend Silicone gloves or welder's gloves to handle the hot jars. MUCH easier than towels or tongs and protects you.
OOOOO Welders gloves!
The 'Ove Glove' is awesome for canning!
I've been using one every canning season for about 15 years now.
@@malapoyo over gloves are so awsome, I also keep an extra pair for camping. They work so well that we have use them to move our burn pit when it was blazing hot with fire in it. I think that they work better than welders gloves
Enjoyed your video thank you! I'm teaching myself to can for my family so I appreciate your video.
Wow, I didnt know this was possible. Great information in this video. Thank you for sharing. May God Bless You.
I'm so sorry that you burned your hand I've done that before too. My son told me to put prepared yellow mustard on the burn, so I did and immediately the pain left, after a while rinse it off. Also gardening gloves work great for "hot pads". I use the ones with the little rubber nubs all over because they grip the jars so well and I slip brown jersey gloves into them for extra layer of protection. Love your videos.
Always learn something new from you. Freeze the flour. Never knew that. Thanks for always sharing.
Thanks to you I just oven canned 50 pounds of bread flour for the very first time ever!! All the main jars sealed!
EXCELLENT!
I just found your channel and I'm so glad I did! I grew up with my grandmothers and my own mother canning. I canned some when I was younger. I'm just starting to get back into it. I never thought to can flour! Thank you so much for sharing! You are very engaging and your videos are very helpful. Keep up the great job!
Great video! Great teacher! I learned that baking the flour like you did will in fact kill any weevil eggs. Freezing just makes them dormant.
Love this! I was looking for ways to preserve flour for a long, long time...and I found your video! Thank you :)
Thank you so much! I have such a happy feeling of accomplishment today. I dry canned 24 pounds of flour today🎉🎉
I saw in one of your other videos that you do a mix of white flour and wheat flour. Have you found an easy way to mix large batches of the two flours for canning? Also, lavender essential oil is excellent for burns. Stops the burning within a minute and usually the burn is almost invisible the next day! Love your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
An onion cut in half and put directly on the burn works good too...
@@rebeccashetter2309 I didn't know about lavender oil or onions, I am definitely going to try both. Thank you so much for the info.
I'm going to try that, thank you so much for the info
I just bought two10lb bags of flour. I'll be putting them in the freezer today and canning mid week. Thanks for the tips!!
I can and vacuum seal everything. I have little food wastage.
My family jokes that when I die they're going to make a huge bag and vacuum seal me.
Wakky Wabbit Ha! Lovin' it. :)
Do you can it then vaccum seal it
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They will have to dehydrate you first lol
Just flicked on to your channel, very informative .
Just bought 20 kg bags of plain , self-raising,whole meal& strong flour. I'll be popping them in freezer first . I stopped buying large quantities as I had the ''BUG" problem years ago but with the current empty shelves 😍Thank you . Stay Safe⭐️
Thanks for the great videos! I love how you explain things as you're working! A friend of mine canned cakes in the oven.........until he had a mishap and some jars exploded making a huge, huge chocolate mess! He said his days of canning cake was over! lol
Unfortunately, today's jars are not as strong as many of those in the past.
It is wise to carefully inspect jars before using them. A few years ago I bought a dozen Ball jars. Ten were defective! I have canned over 20 years and never had a defective jar.
I called Ball. They wanted to give me coupons! I said, "You're kidding me!"
I don't want coupons, I want solid usable jars! Moral of story: Beware!
@@ambrosemclaren145 Sounds like they are cutting costs by making the glass of the jars thinner.
I never new you could canned flour Until tonight when I saw this. That's like really cool I can't wait to share this with my mother in law. 😊
I never knew I could do this in the Times we R in now with this virus I was I'm sure how best to keep flour for long term stumbled across this today I will try this so thank u
@@DebieSims can u do oatmeal like this as well and my bin finds have been way low latley
Love your canning videos. Your videos inspire me to try canning. Please keep posting videos they are really informative.
So happy to see this. Now I know what to o with all my flour. I have a project to do today!
4 years, that's very good! Ouch, I've bumped the element and the edge of the stove. Painful. Great job with all the flour. I need shelving before I am able to can so much. Makes me so jealous to see shelves of canned goods. I have space, just no shelving for it. This house lacks shelves big time.
🌾 Merry meet, merry part & meet again 🌿
I'm on my second 25# bag of flour. I won't get caught again looking for flour or bread on the shelves in a pandemic. Thanks for this info, before I had know idea and I'm 65.
Great. You can do beans, noodles, crackers, rice, oats , just to name a few including all the dehydrated foods that you can make yourself. You could put sugar and salt in Quart jars, but I never bother because salt and sugar may get hard but it can be hammered to break pieces off if needed. You gotta have salt....It can be used in an emergency to preserve meat without electricity and tan/preserve skins and fur including many other uses.
We been doing it for a while and it was nice to sit back knowing that we had enough while others went to stores panicking. For a while we gave away quarts of rice and other things to friends and family while all this was going on.
We have a revolving pantry.....older things come from the pantry and the pantry becomes our shopping center and new stuff goes into the pantry when we go shopping.
Just a tip for those who are looking for flour and sugar during a shortage. Go to the richest part of town and go into their high end grocery stores. You'll find all sorts of sugar, flour, pasta etc. that all the regular stores are of out. Guess the rich don't intend to cook anything from scratch when the SHTF. lol Any time I can't find something at the regular grocery stores, I always find it in the rich neighborhood stores. lol
I'm really glad PaPa was there to help get those filled jars into the oven!!! Whew, what a job!! I have no one here but the dos and since they don't have thumbs ... they're only there for moral support! LOL Those filled jars are HEAVY!!!
Thank you for this video. I finally tried this and pulled out my first gallon jar to use the all purpose flour. The flour was clumped. I sifted the flour and it looks fine. But my question to you is, do you think I did something wrong to caused the flour to clump? If this is normal, then I’m okay with this as I have flour in my pantry that will last years. I salute you and your desire to educate.
It's normal
Use vinegar and water for about 15 to 20 minutes if you ever burn yourself again. Thanks for the awesome video! I never knew this was even possible
Bev, I'm hoping that you will do a short video on "using" oven canned flour. I think it would be educational as some people will freak out when it appears and feels "hard" when they open the jar! LOL Thanks for all you do for us!!
She has several using her canned flour, wizzes it up in the food processor if i recall
+Mary Clendenin I'd like to see more of those, too!
And that will be me
I just did my oven canned flour, put it away but decided to keep one jar on hand, and I was shocked 😳 when I realized it was hard like a rock
I thought I did it wrong
@@chinablue4012 So what do we do about that ?
I agree!
I was shocked when some wheat I’d stored had clearly been chomped by weevils. I pop all my grains in the freezer for a while now. Nice vid - thanks!
That is so cool. I keep my flour in the freezer also, I learnt this the hard way after finding weevils in the flour when I left it out in the pantry. Never again.
This is so wonderful! Thank you🙏🙏🙏 I just have one question- at what temperature do you put the flour in the oven??
I didn't know you could do that. I'm going to give it a try. Thanks dear!
my pleasure like I said freeze it first for a few days the bigger the bag the longer you need to freeze it and then let it come up to room temperature for a day before canning it or your flower will lumpy in the jars for moisture
Can do!!!!!!!!!!!
love you thanks for all your hard work and teaching us a great lesson. blessings
Thanks Bev! I miss having a big oven. I've been vacuum sealing my flour after freezing and bringing it back to room temp. BTW Egg white is the best thing to put on burns. Much Love
is vacuum sealing just as good as oven canning? I have a sealer but I don't think my oven is big enough.
annette, I don't have enough oven canning experience to answer that. I know mice can get into the vacuum bags unless you keep them in glass, metal, or other mouse proof storage.
jan Penland thank you. You're right about the mice. Oh wow I need to go check on the ones I've sealed life that. Lol I have a jar sealer that was in the food saver machine was wondering if that would work instead. Thank you. ☺
I've had mice chew into the 5 gallon buckets but not through the large mylar bags lining the bucket. They nibbled on the mylar but luckily didn't get through it.They ate about half of the vacuum sealed grain that was in the unlined bucket. They also got into my candles and soap and ate them too. I mostly use vacuum sealed glass for storage now although I do still use the vacuum bags when I run out of large glass jars. I also have cats now to control the vermin. If I see signs of mice I don't feed the cats.
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Goodness!!!! Thank you so much for this. Practical and perfect for my needs. Stay well.
How many pounds of flour can you fit in a quart jar?
Your video has good information, thank you.
A 1/2 gallon jar holds 7 to 8 cups. So a quart should hold 3.5 to 4 cups of flour. If you want pounds or weight in general, weigh a cup of flour.
As much as it will fit.
My flour is in the oven as I type this. 5lb of flour fit (2) 1/2 gal jars. So with that in mind, a qt would be 1.25 lbs. (disclaimer: depends also on how much you tap it down and what headspace you have. you may come up a little bit short) I tapped pretty hard.
@@Ariel-xz8lg Thank you.
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More helpful now than ever before! Thanks!
This is awesome information Bev. Thank you so much, I’m going to do this for sure. 🦋💜
Thanks so much for the 🎥. I have been canning for years. Never thought to can flour. Going to do some this week. 👍👍🌹🌹
New sub here! Thank you for this video! My in-laws can this way! We are watching more of your videos now!
Very cool. I had no idea you could can dry goods in the oven.
Hi, loved the way you explain things. I've canned before but I'm actually really getting into doing it this year.
I was wondering. Is there a way to easily can sugar ? I also want to try to can cooked meat but am afraid to.
Thank you for any help.
I like this process very much.
I love watching you, are you ok, haven't seen new ones on you in awhile. I pray for you.
New videos coming this week!!
Thanks for the tips, i never knew about freezing the flour, or canning it 😁😁
I subscribed, love how you explain while performing the task. I am new to storing foods and very curious about canning - jarring. Could you do this technic with cereal like cornflakes or captain crunch or could you vacuum seal?
I'm not sure but I know some people do it with cookies so you can try. Try a small batch and see if it works by doing it and then when it cools opening it to see if you got a good seal and if the cereal is still edible
❤ love your videos, I just found them today. This is the second one and I’ve already got ideas going round in my head. Thanks.
THANK YOU❤❤❤...JUST GETTING INTO CANNING
Me too having trouble finding things here in the UK though xx
Wow, I've never heard of canning flour. My dad can a lot of stuff but never that. My dad taught me how to can. He also taught me how to make wine and he taught me how to make jelly and jam. Well I don't make wine but occasionally I do make the jelly or jam. I have tried my hand and making cheese.
Great video; Thank You!!! Can I dry can cake mixes, pancake, waffle mixes, sugar, and brown rice. Thanks new subscriber. I may not have any tatoo's but still enjoy looking at others. Don't let people upset you; we are very grateful for the time and effort you put into making these self-help videos. God Bless...
It is my understanding that as long as the mixes do not have any ingredients with oil you can dry can them. They go rancid if they have oil in them. It is also my understanding that you should never store your canned good with the rings on them nor should you store them stacked right on top of each other. The reason for that is if they come unsealed for some reason you would never know untill it is to late. You should do a check of your canned goods every so often to make sure they are still sealed and in good condition.
If you have wet canned, tomatoes, green beans, soup ect, it is especially important not to leave the rings on and not to stack the jars right on top of each other for the same reason, botulism can form and make you very sick or even kill you. This is a good video explaining the reasons for not stacking or leaving the rings on: th-cam.com/video/iQi8kab8WxA/w-d-xo.html
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Surely we can stack jars in boxes, right? If I can't stack, I won't have much room to store. . What should I do? Thanks. .
I read brown rice does not last as long in jars / mylar as it has more oil than white rice. :(
cookiemama4 you can stack them in the boxes. Personally, I always leave the rings on my jars. I like the way they look and I feel better when the edge of the lid is protected from anything possibly getting hooked on it and messing with the seal. If a jar lid just comes right off then it wasn’t sealed and I don’t use it. I also tap the lids before I use them or just to check them.
Butter can be canned as well! Pretty cool
Thank you for this...very helpful!
My pleasure!
Great video
I am wondering about stacking them though. Isn't that discouraged?
Thank you for the video! Also I love the art on you're arm's!!!
Thank you, I can’t thank you enough.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
♡♡ I'm very appreciative!
I have some questions, will I need to use all the flour after opening right away or is there even a time frame or will it still stay fresh ?
I just open them up..put it through the food processor with the S blade ( it can be lyumpy) then dump it into my flour cannister! Use up within a month
Thank you beautiful lady, I had no idea that you could can flour.......Hope your hand recovered quickly...........................
Is this an older video, as your hair is no longer pink. Great time to see this video though! Thanks p.s. where did you get 1.9L jars?
I know you didn't ask me but well I got my half gallon jars from Walmart and I ordered online from the Fleet Company ( kind of like a Tractor Supply ) good price . Hope this helps , Blessing's , Linda
I love flours... Im glad ive watched your video on how to keep em
Found you just in time..
Спасибо большое Вы умничка 😊💖 thank you for sharing!
God bless you and your family!
Thank you! Blessing to you and Your family also!
Is dry canning more effective than vacuum sealing with a food saver?
Even food safe BPA free plastic leeches over time. Endocrine disruptors are no joke. Glass is the way to go 🤞
There's the vacuum seal attachment that allows you to seal jars. I was wondering if I could do that instead of oven canning and still not have bugs.
@@ItchyMilk I have had better success with the seal lasting dry canning. Idk why
Leslie Habeck I’d guess because you need the heat to soften the sealing ring for a proper seal.
Kimbelyn the flour will stop up your hose
Thank you, I will try that cause I do have the big jars under also.
full grain will last for at least 10 years without storing it in cans,so why al the effort?you only need a grinder.
Could go rancid, bugs, rodents can chew through plastic.
everything is possible ofcourse,but if you keep full grains cool and at a dark place, it will last for "ages"! ever heard of the Kamut-grains that were found in a more than 3000 year old Pyramide in Egypt?some seeds were taken by an US-pilot;he planted it and brought this as a "new" grain on the market but nobody wanted it....decennia later,in the ninety's it became a well known wheat!
Wheat goes off
Thank you for this information.
I am uncomfortable with putting flour into hot jars, it changes the flour. I would rather, freeze it, vacuum seal it and store it in a cool place. Flour from the store's shelf life is 6 mos to a year.
So wonderful! I love your video. And I bet you are now counting your blessings with all your wonderful flour through this corona virus lockdown. There is no flour in our stores or online. There are only a few bags here and there of rice flour and coconut flour at the grocery stores 😓 Bless you and your family. We are in Southern California.