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Good job! Recently, I purchased two, fifty lb. bags of white rice from Sam's Club, sealed it up in 1 gallon Mylar bags with O2 absorbers and filled a 30 gallon galvanized garbage can with it all.
Even if they are not packed down tight it does not mean it's not sealed, it's just nitrogen. Dry air is almost 80% nitrogen and nitrogen is just fine for storing food in. Just an fyi for people, I've seen people redueing bags to try and get them to brick or because they thought it wasn't sealed all the way
Hi that happened to me i did 30 bags and did not shrink i change them to different bags different brand and happened the same non shrink i left them like that but a little worry about seeing them like that!!!
Good Video, BUT you aren't suppose to put oxygen absorbers in sugar. or salt. It will become hard as a brick. You seal it to keep moisture out not air. FYI
Hmm odd, been doing it for years but only because I was taught to do it that way. The last one I opened up was hard but broke up easily once I opened it up but it was only stored for a year. I may have to open them back up and take out the o2 absorber.
@@Iridium242 I am no expert... I have been sitting hear for about a hour looking at video after video about storing sugar. every single one except yous said NO O2 absorbor. From what I gathered, Sugar never goes bad from air. only moisture and of course pest. One really good idea was to use a food grade bucket with a screw in gama lid and just pour in 30 pound sack. you can open it as often as you want.
Well, you make it easy! However, I still don't know how long this food is going to last...some people say one thing and others, another. At any rate, food should keep. We are finally preserving foods in bulk and I love my food prep air-sucker-outer, and now have ventured into mylar bags. Putting up 100# of wheat berries, and many pounds of dry goods in mylar, including 1 and 5 gal bags. Your technique with the 1x2 and folding and ironing is really helpful! So thanks a "ton" and all I need to know is how hot on the iron to actually work without damaging bags or iron. Great video, great to have food stores. I'm sold.
Very informative. I started using mayla bags about three months. Some of them not doing too well. I had chg out bags and oxygen absorbers but no luck. Can you reuse oxygen absorbers. Thanks
I dont have a freezer to freeze dry goods first. If I put in mylar with absorber do I have to freeze first. I found a good deal on mac & cheese and boxes of jiffy and want to store long term?
The mac and cheese will be fine, if you want to toss it into a bag and seal it that works too. As for the Jiffy if its Peanut butter, it will last a good long long time without being sealed up.
No real benefit, but since I am packing that one into a small 5 gallon bucket for a later video I wanted to show that they can be cut, and it will help make the package smaller when I stack it and many other things in that bucket. Also if you are putting a smaller amount in there, it helps by letting the Oxy absorber not work as hard to suck out all that O2 in the bigger bag. You don't need to cut them at all.. just seal up and use as normal.
I would be concerned about not vacuum sealing. Do the oxygen absorbers essentially take the place of vacuum sealing? Using your technique, will the bags tighten up over a few days as the oxygen absorbers suck up the extra oxygen in the bags or will there always be slack (i.e., empty space) in the bags, even with the oxygen absorbers?
Dumb question. Do you put the instant oatmeal packets into the Mylar bags? Or do you buy one flavor of instant oatmeal, open the packets and pour them into Mylar? My kids like the different flavored instant oatmeal. Just curious if it’s okay to put the packets within the Mylar. Thanks!
Excellent video. Theres a trick for storing the oxy absorbers... put them all in a glass canning jar. They will even pop the lid down from negative pressure. Just makes the process of using them quicker. Exposes them to less oxygen each time because you can quickly open and reseal.
They can be, but some sealers do not get hot enough to seal them and they do not have a way to suck the air out of them due to the nature of the bag itself, so you have to put a tiny bit of plastic between the 2 sides of the bag so it can suck the air out.
Watched a video before this. You can use the textured side of vacuum seal bags. Cut those into 2 inch strips. Place one in each corner of the bag. Pl ace in vacuum sealer. Then seal. The texture side of the strips let's the air suck out. Just plain Mylar beats are smooth on both sides and will not pull out the air. Make sure to use only the texture side of the bag. Look up on RU-vid videos and watch.
I JUST watched a video where a lady came up with a cheap way to make O2 obsorbers is to buy a bag of Silca cat litter and coffee filters and make your own
@@Iridium242 i use both, when using a flat iron, (the ones used for hair) it makes the process MUCH easier, to the point where there is no oxygen exists in the bag once the O2 absorbers get to work
