Storing Rice and Beans in Mylar Bags and Food Grade Buckets for Long Term Storage

[Music] okay today's short video I'm going to show you how to store rice and buckets of course this can go for beans or any other dry food so we will need the buckets the rice the oxygen absorbers and the mylar bags and an iron these are leftover coffee bags there they're made of mylar when you buy them in the store you can save them if you're interested in putting things in there later like a long-term storage for oatmeal maybe or rice or beans morning folks and here we have a a bunch of these small little mylar coffee bags save the empty bags because we're gonna put rice and beans inside of them and in doing that you have smaller cold portions so when you open up your main bucket the rest of the stuff won't go bad all the oxygen had been sucked out of there when you open one you can actually hear it up snores it makes let me do that again noise it makes and but the neat thing about it is it actually still smells a little bit like coffee so you can actually have a and then if you run out of coffee and you're a coffee junkie like me that just absolutely loves coffee you can imagine you can say oh I could just I can almost smell that coffee well you can because it's gonna be in your beans and in your rice now cuz we don't wash them out so well y'know wazzed into his coffee and angle hurt you so anyway I just wanted to share that with ya those are just a couple things nice he's gonna be bagging bagging in mylar some big bags of rice and putting them in the 5-gallon buckets we use these gamma seal lids everything I've seen about them except for one video said they have a good the one video I've seen said that somewhere along the there's a seam and on that seam may be compromised as far as air goes so what we do is we put them in mylar drop the oxygen absorbers inside the mylar and then put them in the bucket then we'll drop another one or two in the bucket so that will draw all that that rubber seal down on that on you know on that on the top of that bucket makes sure the outer lid and then there's the Internet but I may be wrong oh you're right that's the other buckets and you can get them at Lowe's also the buckets are around $3 the lids of which puts pricey lids run I think there's seven dollars a piece now you can also buy the old-fashioned lids there with just a rubber seal on them and you you get them down with a wooden mallet or a rubber mallet to seal them that's your choice I like to gamble is because you can open them and then close them a lot easier different size option absorbers means he's gonna go over all that with him she's gonna show you show you the process oh we've got a mason jar out here that's neat so anyway that's it for me today I have these smaller size mylar bags that I'm gonna use first it looks like about three will fit in here so I'm just positioning them and I'm gonna fill them up okay now these are filled up and I left three or four inches on the top of each one this is the twisty top that goes on here and what it what happens is you have to put that that round base with on your bucket with a mallet so here's one where the round base is on it so that means that this will just go on at the end and just close and we'll do that later so this is a two-piece system here so the next step we're going to iron clothes the the tops of these and put oxygen absorbers in them at the very end before I seal up at the last inch okay in order to iron these shut you want to position the bag alongside a thick book because you're gonna flap it over and push a warm iron right here okay so you can see that it kind of firm it's been ironed starting from here and I stopped about here because I'm gonna slip some oxygen absorbers inside here and then iron the rest at the last step okay here is your chart for how many oxygen absorbers you need in a five-gallon bucket if you look down to the center left column it says one gallon needs three hundred CCS for rice and beans and then another hundred extra if you're doing cereals flour things like that and then 500 CC's per gallon for pasta and oatmeal and things like that so we're concerned with the three hundred CCS per one gallon because we're doing rice right now and by the way it says sugar up there but I read that you do not put oxygen absorbers in sugar or salt but anyway this is our chart so we're gonna go by that okay you get oxygen absorbers pretty much anywhere I noticed these that I bought do not have how many cc's are on the packets so fortunately they I did keep the cover and it says 200 cc's per packet so I'll just do the math and the minute you open them they only have a five minute life so I have my mason jar ready and I'm gonna go ahead and just transfer them just before I I need them so in the meantime I have my bag ready and I'm gonna do a step that's optional I'm gonna go ahead and suck the air out of the bag with this machine and it is optional if you're using oxygen absorbers but it just helps to to get all the air out okay this next step is a little tricky you have to have everything kind of set up to go go go I have my bag partially sealed I'm going to quickly slip in my oxygen absorbers then I'm going to pull out some air and hold it and then I'll iron the last little bit the technique that I use is I put in my tube for the air vacuum seal and then I just hold it like this and I suck all the air out of it and I have to use two hands so I'm going to shut this off and do it of course first I'm going to put the oxygen absorbers in here I'm just going to show you that as you're drawing the air out of this of the bag and that shows you that the air is being pulled out and then the corners will start printing up a little bit and you want to leave your finger right here and you'll quickly be pulling out your line and then ironing the rest down okay my first bag is done you might want to put a towel over your book because sometimes the iron will stick to what's on your book and a lot of this is technique you're gonna have to have to juggle things and and and line things up and put things in but in any case that's the basic process so I'm gonna do another one and I'll we cap everything in just a second the two things I want to point out when you're using the iron be very careful that the tip does not puncture inside the groove there because you'll just if it's real easy to open your bag up and learn the bag I just basically just wait until I see the bags all sucked in and I pull pull out the line and just push my finger over that real fast to hold it in and then I iron it okay now I'm gonna quickly show you how to just do one large bag it's a little over sized for this five-gallon bucket but I'm just going to you know seal it down low enough to where the whole thing will fit in there I'm gonna finish filling it up and I'm going to crease it over on top of a book and then I'll iron it and I'll use the rim here to hold the book and then I'll press it down leave an opening get out the air after I put the oxygen absorbers in and then with the book under here I'll finish sealing it off okay before I get too much further I know I noticed that this bucket didn't have the rim on it of the two-part lid so I did top it off a little but before I continue I'm going to make sure this bottom part of the lid on first make sure I didn't overfill the rice okay I put the lid on the rice amount is good and I put the book under there and I'm gonna press it down and gently iron it shift the book over and keep ironing it to enough room to put in oxygen absorbers okay ready for the oxygen absorbers remember I need 300 per gallon these are only 200 each so you have to do the math seven of these would give me 1400 so I guess I'll put eight in okay it's doing pretty good but just so you know that if you don't get it perfectly tight the oxygen absorbers will create that vacuum later okay it's the next morning and if you can see these have pulled in really nicely so I know that my oxygen absorbers or well are done well then today I need to just check the rest of them and then label everything and then I'm gonna throw in oxygen absorbers in the bucket right before I put the lid on so let me start that I also wanted to show you some bags that were done a few years ago that are still in good shape and these didn't go in buckets because I just didn't have any buckets but as you can see they'll still store like this the problem is is that these can rip really easily with a small sharp object puncturing them so if you're gonna do this store them very carefully and check them to make sure they stay tight okay everything's labeled and I threw a few oxygen absorbers in each bucket and I'm gonna go ahead and put the lids on right away okay all finished they're labeled with the date and initials just check that the depth of your lid on the inside will rest in open space as you put them on and let's go ahead now and recap them okay we're going to review the five things we need basically are one rice and buckets or beans whatever two mylar bags make sure you plan to leave a two to three inch space on the top to iron three oxygen absorbers three hundred CCS to a gallon bag number four vacuum sealing abilities with that tube to suck air out but that is optional and number five is an iron and the keys to remember just for advice is make sure you use low heat watch for punctures with that iron and look for the bags to draw in to prove that your seal is good and the oxygen absorbers are working and the last one is develop your own technique as you can see I used a book and some people actually experiment with a curling iron to hold the bag on their lap and crimp the top so you have to develop your own technique and lay it out so that it's comfortable for you and you get your job done thank you from family tree farm [Music]

Channel: The Prepper Consultant

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Keywords: preparedness, homeschooling, home schooling, survival, minimalist, small farm, gardening basics, homesteading, end times

Id: Xeh10j63KL0

Length: 13min 42sec (822 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 13 2020