Making A Vacuum Sealing Adapter For 2 Liter Soda Bottles 

Oh I forgot to mention a rubber hose that fits over the valve and has a small hole for vacuum hose to connect to. When you vacuum. You shut the valve before you remove the vacuum. How much vacuum you may ask? Well when the pump reads 15 psi.

Glad you liked it! I usually store foods in canning jars, but have done a bunch of rice and beans in soda bottles. The one thing I need to work out is how to stack them reliably. One of my other videos is on stackable water bottles, and I may try some of those. Enjoy!

@@jdprepper5463 If you have an Aldi's near where you live, sometimes you can buy their soda trays fairly cheaply. But they are usually ones that are cracked or broken.. but with some epoxy filler they will hold. You can usually stack them 3 high, 4 if the trays are in good shape.

I sometimes add an O2 absorber, but not always. Vac sealing does a good job for long term storage without spoilage.

Your welcome! Don't be afraid to ask any questions, I'll be glad to help.

Cheap and easy!

I had the same idea when watching this because the rubber is pliable enough to press it down over the center of the cap where the tape is before removing it.

My only concern is the packet blocking the neck of the bottle. Silica dessicants in rice is a waste of time, the rice is a natural dessicant - put a few grains in a salt shaker to keep the salt mobile.

Rice, pasta and other dry foods will oxidize over time, which means they go stale. Removing the oxygen by vacuum sealing them in a container lessens that effect greatly. The plastic would only contaminate the food if there were moisture in the bottle which causes the plastic to leach chemicals over a long period of time. The enemy here is oxygen, so removing the air removes the oxygen.

The hose that comes with the foodsaver has a nipple on it that would normally fit into a vacuum sealing cap or other accessory. When you drill a hole in the turkey baster cap, that's the same size as the nipple, so the nipple slips into the hole you just drilled. Please let me know what other info you might need, and please be specific as to what's in doubt. Thanks!

Walmart has the cheapest food savers with the accessory port. Yes on the brake bleeder. I did not know the 3 liter bottle caps were larger, so it's hard to say what to use. You might try a plunger from a kid's dart, drill a small hole in the center and you'd have to stand there with it pressed onto the cap. Good luck!

some rice does spill, but I am careful to scoop it up. Even a grain or two can make a difference!

Oxygen absorbers do not vacuum seal a container. Yes, they remove the oxygen in the air, thus reducing the volume slightly, but not enough to pull a vacuum on the jar / bottle. Also, a "hot hands" warmer is quite big, and would be very difficult to force through a 2 liter bottle neck. I use the 100 CC Oxygen absorbers (find them on ebay) and it's tough to fold them in 1/2 to get into the bottle.

Wouldn't removing the air kill the bugs?

Flour is tough to vacuum seal. I use a wide mouth jar and an upside down coffee filter - cut the filter to size - and don't fill the flour all the way to the top of the jar. If flour gets into the machine, it will clog the vacuum mechanism and you'll need a new machine!

@J D Prepper thank you for the advice and your time 🙏🙏🙏🙏

This isn't for mason jars. This is for 2 liter plastic soda bottles. Look closer.

Yes, that could be a problem. Almost all of my vac sealed foods are put up in canning jars, which represents a significant amount of money. Some people cannot afford to do it that way, so giving them an option using soda bottles works. And, you can always get a cat!

Very good tip!

Good idea but, then you are adding moisture to the rice

The plastic used in milk jugs is very weak and will fracture, plus, it is not recommended for re-use with food products. 2 liter bottles have thicker plastic, and of a different type.

Beans, sugar, salt, rice, pasta - anything dry and can fit through the neck.

I have several 3 year old bottles, still on. The vacuum inside the bottle firmly holds it in place there, and the rest isn't disturbed because I rarely move them around.

@@jdprepper5463 I think I would dip the top of the bottle & cap into canning wax to keep the tape safe. Have always heard to freeze to the rice for a week to kill all the critters & eggs that may be in the bag before sealing them up for storage.

@@frontdesk810 Yes, freezing works well to kill the bugs. Good idea on the wax seal, but be sure to be quick with it so the tape won't let go

Electrical tape is designed to stay put for a very long time, after all, it has to join wires often hidden in a wall. If you're concerned with the chemicals in the tape, remember it's s pinhole that the tape covers, so very little leakage would occur

Do a RU-vid search for "bicycle pump vacuum" and several videos pop up! Enjoy!

@@jdprepper5463 oh wow!! Thank you very much 🙂

Sonder: You could actually do it with just a syringe and two little valves from the pet store. There’s tutorials on here for that. But a bicycle pump is a superior idea, because it would even work in a power outage. Thank you very much.

@@daphneraven6745 thank you too, I would have never thought of a syringe.

@@sonder2164 ; they cost almost nothing at Princess Auto, any auto shop, and sometimes you can get them at the pharmacy as well for almost nothing. The two valves are very cheap as well. The guy in the tutorial used the needle with the syringe, he went with a larger gauge that was longer, as well as an irrigation tip, if memory serves. It sure made an impression on my mind, the instructions are scratched down to act asa reminder to pick up some valves to try it later. I have a vacuum ceiling unit, with all the attachments, but it doesn’t work during a power outage. And sometimes when you’re out hiking or camping, and a person wants to be able to seal something back up again, it’s a great way to be able to do it. It would be nothing in the pack and take up almost no space at all. Believe me, that’s not at all true of the electric unit. Did you ever take the time to do up your bicycle pump vacuum unit?

That does not vacuum seal the bottle. It will remove oxygen and slightly remove some volume to the air, but not as much as vacuum sealing, which maintains freshness much longer.

Woodsy: The bay leaf, it’s a nice redundancy. One thing about bay leaves is that they tend to be very flavorful. Very flavourful indeed. It’s OK sometimes, if the food that it’s protecting tastes good with that flavour. But some foods just do decidedly not taste good with the flavour of Bay leaf. That might be worth thinking about before you put the leaf in The bottle. After all, there aren’t gonna be many insects getting into a bottle that has a cover on and is under a vacuum seal.

Can you find a turkey baster that will fit that neck size? If so, yes.

For plastic to leach, it has to have a medium to cross over on. Usually, that's a liquid of some kind. We're storing dry goods, no liquids, so nothing to act as a carrier. Plus, by vacuum sealing, you're removing the air and any humidity that the air may have contained.

@@jdprepper5463 I'm very grateful for your reply. Sets my mind at ease. Well, now I can do some storing

@@dianevitale1214 Here's a link to a website that details the safety of the various plastics used for food and other chemical transportation: ecomii.com/household/which-plastics-are-safe/

Diane Vitale: i’m hearing a lot of that from some people, but you have to understand that since our governments are telling us to expect a food shortage and even famine that’s going to last for multiple years, it’s a good idea to actually check before making assumptions. I understand that’s what you’re doing right now. That’s a smart thing you’re doing. The way you normally go about checking such things is to go to websites of manufacturers and even governments that talk about the limitations of different plastics, and how they break down, what the risk factors are. Some plastics do leach out into liquids. It’s really important to know about that. But we’re not talking about liquids now. And the little lightweight, minimalist water bottles that are meant to break down rapidly in landfills may not be a good choice for food or water storage either. If you think you want to use a bottle, and it smells or looks less than optimal, then you have a very good reason not to use that bottle. Very good indeed. Some people don’t have much money, and they are still gonna need food. This is a smart way to make sure there is food available in your storage, even in winter. The way you store the bottles will have a big impact on how the bottles hold up. They should be at a cool and stable temperature, in a dry location, and away from light. Responsible preppers are supposed to check their food storage regularly, rotating it. This is to make sure that the containers are in good shape, that nothing is trying to break into the food supply, like a rodent, and that they are undamaged. If there’s signs of compromise, then that food should be checked and re-packaged. This is true of even glass containers. At the first sign of moisture damage on a can, it needs to be addressed. Optimally, we would all have 7ml Mylar and freeze-dried foods in #10 cans; but if it comes down to the choice between having food stored in plastic versus no food, from my perspective there’s a clear and easy choice here.

Just wondering if that would hold the seal very well. Once a soda is opened, no matter how tight the lid is the soda will go flat due to air seeping in.

yes. Remember, it's being sucked IN and not being pushed out.

I've had beans stored this way for several years.

Grease or oil on the bottle cap, or, possibly vynal tape that won't stick to the cap. Try a different cap or different tape.

After sealing maybe dip the top in hot bees wax to double down on the seal.???

Duct tape is adhesive backed cloth, and cloth is porous, so I'd say probably not too well. You can try it and see, but using black electrical tape works every time.

My worry is that any packets added will block the flow of the rice when emptying the bottle. Vacuum sealing does a pretty good job of killing any bugs, plus, you can freeze the rice for a week to really put it to them!

Put the packet in first and then fill with rice or whatever.

As long as the seal remains good, at least 10 years. I prefer to use glass canning jars - 25 years, but these are essentially free and fit many people's budgets. Store in a dark place where the temps remain fairly constant - back of a closet - for longest shelf life

Oxygen in the air causes food to spoil. Some foods go rancid, others stale, and still others will discolor and wilt. When you use a vacuum sealer, it removes the air, and the oxygen in the air, from contacting the food and causing spoilage. A vacuum does not naturally occur just by closing up a container, the air has to be removed. If your goal is short term storage of say 6 months, your way will work OK. But if you want truly long term storage, doing it this way will guarantee your food will last and not become nasty over time.