SEALING TIP: MAX OUT YOUR O2 ABSORBERS BY SEALING THE BAGS 3/4 OF THE WAY. SLIP IN THE O2s, toss extras into mason jar w/ a little rice, then make your quick seals.
@@jeffscookingadventure yup worked out real well! Packed up about 25lbs or rice, 25lbs beans, and then a few pounds each of lentils and oats 👍🏼 thanks!
Sweet, came across this channel while trying to search how much beans and rice can fit into a gallon mylar bag. Its good to know how many people are actually putting goods back.
@Sir Dukingham that is great news . I’ve not tried putting them in a jar but if it sucks the lid shut and your absorbers stay red you can use them when you need them ! Good job Sir Dukingham that could help a lot of people that ran out of Mylar bags but still have oxygen absorbers left and having to wait on more Mylar bags to come in. 👍👍👍👍
Great question! That could be possible I would imagine, but those Mylar bags are made for heat sealing , so I would say if done correctly the chance is very low of getting a pin hole. Thanks for the great question 👍
Hey Carlos thanks for the comment she sounds about right all my bags did not seal as tight as others I know because we moved this past weekend and I had to move all those preps 😩
Ok I see you commented on the Mylar bags . No try to get the bag down to no space after you place oxygen assorber in it . That will suck up all oxygen and cling tight to what’s in bag .
i bought all the rice and mylar bags...need to get me some O2 asborbers now....were latin family we eat 2lb rice daily so yo ucan imagine...we need tons of rice (hahahaha) i have about 380lbs of rice stocked and am ready to start the preppng...1 gallon bags works out for our usage i see alot of preppers will just throw riche in a 5gallon bag into a bucket and thats not very wise if you need to start using youl lbe foreced to open and use all of it..if power is out you cant seal it up again and no extra o2 asborbers to throw in there...makes more sense to do the 1 gallon bags and if SHTF and you need to bartyr... you wont want to give up a whole bucket of rice ...something to think about yall
I bought 5 gallos, n extra absorbers, I will cut the 5gallon and make it smaller..also I will use some 5 gallon for rice storage, when I open the bag will store rest in my freezer until it's usted out, or if I need to share with family or friends
Thanks for the comment and the question Evelyn ! I’m pretty sure that when you put the oxygen absorbers in the bags nothing is going to live . Bringing it to a boil definitely would kill anything in the Mylar bag that may have survived without oxygen being stored. Lol BTW bugs won’t hurt you they are a delicacy in 3rd world countries 😂😂😂
@Fisticuffs Guilde thank you for the comment! Great advice ! After 1 yr I’m opening the bag I sealed , pretty sure nothing lives without oxygen but we will see once again thank you worth trying for sure!
Hello and thank you for the video. I was wondering what cc you are using for this video. I packed a lot of mylar bags a few days ago, it looks good but not enough. Not close to what your looks like. I'm now extremely concerned that I've wasted a lot of food and it won't be good once I open it
Thanks for stopping by Eran ! I used (1) 500 cc oxygen absorber per 1 gallon bag. I’ve had a lot of people tell me the same thing that there bags didn’t seal like mine . The only thing I can say is I got all my food in the bags close to the top then opened the oxygen absorbers and placed them on top the food and started sealing with that hair straightener as fast as I could. Note once a oxygen absorber is exposed or opened it’s go time or the absorbers go bad. I hope this helped😁
@@jeffscookingadventure Yes it was helpful, thank you very much. I did some further looking and apparently the 200cc I ordered were actually 50cc. Feeling really ripped off. Gonna redo everything later today. I will put 4 units of 50cc in each 1 gallon mylar bag. I just hope the food will still be ok
Good will be fine beans and rice store a long time in original plastic before even putting in Mylar bags. Mylar is very long term storage for any kind of emergency 10-20 years from now😁
I have a question. I bought 1 gallon bags and 300cc absorbers and put 2 absorbers per bag. Most of my bags didn't suction down as good as yours. I did rice, pinto beans, and oats (separate bags). I'm thinking I want to open the bags and try again with new bags and o2 absorbers. Do you think the food will be ok to open and re seal in new bags? Also, any thoughts on why they didn't suction down the first time??
Thanks for the great question Mrs Coffee! My experience with oxygen absorbers and Mylar bags is that 1 gallon bags filled 3/4 and a really good seal works well, you could have bad oxygen absorbers or not a good seal. When I get ready to store my beans and rice I won’t open the oxygen absorbers until it’s time to place in bag if the absorbers are left open they will be bad in a short period of time you have to seal them so they won’t go bad, as far as re sealing the beans and rice that you already sealed the food still should be good 😊
You don't need to open them back up, vacuum sealing is different than using oxygen absorbers. My mylar remain slack however I saw in many other vids the bags are not suctioned and it's safe for storage .
If you got the buckets handy that’s a great place ! I just stored mine in Mylar bags in the cabinets but buckets are better and I’ll convert mine over after I get my place all arranged and settled 👍
Great question , I don’t think it matters as long as your in the dry and the beans and rice are dry . You don’t want any moisture on your beans and rice before you Mylar bag them with oxygen absorbers . Thanks for the question 👍
I have not tried that but I have heard of people doing that . I try to figure how many bags I’ll be feeling with how much food Ive got and most the time the oxygen absorbers come in one big pack sealed with 2 or 3 little sealed packs of 5 . Great question!
Take care with pasta that has sharp edges. I have heard that it is better to store spaghetti or such in sealed tall bottles with some oxygen absorbers. The sharp edges can rip the mylar if it shrinks down much or is pressed the wrong way.
How long did the bag take to compress like that? Its been about 12 hours for me with 800cc in my bags and it doesn't look compressed yet I'm still waiting
Hey starry I don’t see why it wouldn’t work for dog food as long as you put the oxygen absorbers in the there and store it where mice or rodents can’t get to it. It s like all the other food prep channels nobody has stored food for twenty years then opened it on RU-vid to really see if any of this really works we just go by it’s supposed to work according the Mylar bag designer experts😀
Hi, I wanted to know what company did you get your Mylar bags with the oxygen Absorber and how long does the the beans and rice last. Did you get the 5mil Mylar bags?
Thanks for the great question Sandra ! They say that the beans and rice properly stored like I showed on the video can last up to 20 years but none of us has had a RU-vid channel that long to prove this😎 I’ll get back with you on where I got the Mylar bags and mil size🤓
Hey Sandra the company I got the Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers from was 5starservice@packfreshusa.com (844)8-5 STARS / (844)857-8277 don’t know exactly the mill size but it doesn’t matter from this company hope this helped
For filling, I just used 8 cups of beans and they didn't deflate like your's. I thought the oxygenators would turn any air into nitrogen and then collapse the bags. Why do I still have air in the bags?
Another great question ce farther, so this can be multiple things , bag left with to much space for the oxygen absorber to work , bag not completely sealed , bad oxygen absorber or the oxygen absorber was left exposed to long before sealing the bag. When I seal all my long term preps I have everything in the bag’s measured out and ready for the oxygen absorber to be placed thus the oxygen absorbers are still air tight and not opened yet . It’s like ready set go ! Hope this helped you out 🤘🏻
Oxygen absorber eats oxygen not nitrogen. Air is 78% nitrogen. Bad stuff for the food doesn't get going on nitrogen. So if they don't seem like vacuum sealed I wouldn't worry about it as long as you put in enough oxygen absorbers to get rid of the oxygen.
Thanks for the great question! You would just simply store it like you would a regular bag of rice from the store close it up with a twist tie or potato chip clip and place in the cabinet. After opening you still shelf life on it just not long term . Hopes that answered your question
16 cups of beans to the gallon. A cup of beans can make a meal for 4 people. If you are eating beans regularly then that is 2-4 weeks. Beans last a long time even not sealed. So storing them in gallon bags probably isn't a big deal. You can store a bag of beans straight from the store for a year without losing much bean quality. But I guess if you were really worried about it you could do some in quart bags as well.
Thanks for the great question! No I do not freeze the rice . I take it straight from the bag from store right in the Mylar bags . I figure with no oxygen and when I boil it nothing going to survive but that’s the way I do it . I m going to make a video opening one up after 1 year to look at it!
John he’s talking about larva eggs that sometimes get into rice and beans so by freezing the rice or beans first it eliminates the chance on that happening 😁
The eggs can't do anything without oxygen is what I have heard. And as others mentioned you don't eat dry rice or beans raw but cook it which would kill the buggers if they weren't dead from lack of oxygen.
I keep hearing brown rice doesn't work, well if the oxygen is eliminated, I don't see why brown rice can't be sealed for years like beans. I know they have a natural oil in the husk but there is no oxygen in the bags? Have you any experience with brown rice storage?
Great question , I m pretty sure it’s the hull and the oil that won’t store for long time storage via 15-20 yrs like white rice. I think you can store brown rice in a dry cool dark place up to 16 months though but I never tried it.😁
Brown rice is pretty oily. In general oily stuff can go rancid after 6 months or so from what I hear. White rice and wild rice will keep for years though.
Sorry to hear that one thing I know is the oxygen absorbers can’t be opened until they are ready to be placed in bag then sealed with a iron or hair straightener completely. Only 2 things can go wrong oxygen absorbers bad or the seal isn’t completely sealed. I hope this helped
Thanks for comment! Some people use the freezing method before they put it in Mylar bags but you don’t have to . I put a oxygen absorber in there to suck up all the oxygen nothing can survive without oxygen😀
Thank you for that great question Aniyah! Once you open the oxygen absorbers they start working that’s why you have get them in the bag ASAP . No re using absorbers it’s one and done
STUPID QUESTION ... Why can't you just cut the original plastic bag open, set it and the beans in the mylar, throw an oxygen absorber in, and seal it! Sorry, I'm new to this. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for that Great question! Ive never tried that , I want only the beans or rice in the Mylar bags so the oxygen absorbers work properly and if stored for a long period of time I would not want my beans or rice be inside plastic bags. That’s my opinion .
@@jeffscookingadventure Thanks for the quick reply. That's kinda what I was thinking. It would just make it harder for the oxygen absorbers to pull out more air.
Thanks kieth great Question! But truthfully no I did not .. When you take all oxygen from any source it dies .. 😎I’m about to do a video on opening up my Mylar bags to show everyone oxygen absorbers work😎.
@@jeffscookingadventure Me and my aunt, bag up a bunch of Rice yesterday. I wake up. The bags do not look any different with the air being sucked out of it... What could have we done wrong?
Thanks for the great question Keith! You are not the first person to ask me that . There are a few things that can cause this, not 100% air tight after you sealed it, brand new bad oxygen absorbers, a micro whole in the Mylar bags , oxygen absorbers to small, to much space left in the bag . Just to let you know I also had bags that completely didn’t shrink tight also . I used one up couple months ago that didn’t shrink tight it had black eye peas in it , it had been stored not shrunk tight for couple years beans was fine . I hope this helped
I wouldn't use that size bag because than u have to reseal and more oxygen absorbers each time. Get the size bags you'd actually use all of it within a month. Example... flour... 1 gallon bags. Spices pint or qt size bags. You may be in a situation..no electricity and you can't reseal. I wouldn't put flour and rice in 5 gallon bags. U won't eat or make things with 5 gallons flour in one sitting.
Thanks for the comment kitty ! I think what a lot of people do is they take several smaller bags and put in 5 gallon buckets but I agree flour would probably be better in smaller bags and really depends on how many is in your group your prepping for 👍
With all due respect I don’t want to watch the entire video I’m trying to figure out how much rice I can store in a 5 gallon bucket can you please get back to me it would be appreciated
While you took time to post this and waiting on an answer you could of just watched the video! After all he took time out of his schedule to inform us for free!
